29: Building Future Skills with Thom Markham PhD

Thom Markham is a Project Based Learning pioneer and founder of PBL Global. As a psychologist, author, speaker, educator, and President of PBL Global, an educational organization focused on innovation and transformation through promoting inquiry-based learning, Thom offers a set of unique services that can help schools and districts envision, design, and implement a successful, sustainable plan for educating 21st century young people.In this episode, we cover:How  project-based learning helps learners build skills for the futurePBL as a tool to bring the system of life and the system of academics togetherSocial-emotional development being supported by project-based learningCan individualized learning happen with PBLThe only way to truly to become a great PBL facilitator and teacherHow project-based learning allow people to seamlessly enter the workforce with the skills that are necessaryThom’s global coalition of PBL educators and hopes for virtual learning SHOW NOTES: https://www.podpage.com/rebel-educator/29
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