{"id":51820,"date":"2019-04-30T11:08:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T09:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blinklearning-blog.wildoomlab.com\/pbl-innovation-in-the-classroom\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T07:45:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:45:30","slug":"pbl-innovation-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blinklearning-blog.wildoomlab.com\/en\/pbl-innovation-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Project-Based Learning: innovation in the classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"\nWith the arrival of information and communication technologies in schools, both new teaching methodologies<\/strong> and new versions of existing methodologies, now revised for digital generations, have emerged. Project-based learning (PBL)<\/a>, which we review today, is one of them.\n\nIn its essence, PBL allows students to acquire key knowledge and skills through the development of projects that respond to real-life problems.<\/strong>\n\nThe objective is to enhance their autonomy and become the protagonist of their own learning process. Each group of students must plan, structure, execute and present<\/strong> the product that should answer the chosen guide question (see infographic below). For his part, the teacher has the responsibility to guide and support the students<\/strong> throughout the entire project.\n\n\"\"\n\nDe acuerdo con el Instituto de Tecnolog\u00edas Educativas y Formaci\u00f3n del Profesorado (INTEF) del Ministerio de Educaci\u00f3n, Cultura y Deporte:\n\n
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“PBL today represents the best didactic guarantee for an effective contribution to the development of students’ key competencies”.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Better prepared for the `real\u00b4 world<\/h2>\nIt is a methodology that is expanding in schools and has significant benefits for students and teachers.\n\nStarting from a concrete and real-life problem<\/strong>, instead of the traditional theoretical and abstract model, the improvements in the ability to retain knowledge by students, as well as the opportunity to develop complex skills such as critical thinking, communication, collaboration<\/strong> seem obvious or problem solving.\n\nThese are some of the skills called by experts as “21st Century Competencies”<\/strong>, which seem important to ensure a successful academic or professional career.\n\nAn article<\/a> published in 2007 in Edutopia.org brought up the need to change paradigms, and highlighted the ABP as one of the great future trends of digital education.\n\n
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\u201cThe old model of learning facts passively and then reciting them out of context is no longer enough to prepare students in today’s world. Solving complex problems involves fundamental skills (reading, writing, math) along with other 21st century competencies\u00a0 such as teamwork, time management and the use of digital tools\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

\n\n\"\"\n\nNearly 10 years later, project-based learning has not developed in line with expectations. In this, as in other cases of innovative methodologies, there were important challenges in its implementation<\/strong> – at the technological level (at that time there were few centers with the necessary infrastructure to do it properly) and also at the level of teacher training.\n\nIn Spain, it is now beginning to bet more decisively on these models, partly because schools are more prepared to launch projects of this type.\n

Bridging with Design Thinking<\/em><\/h2>\nEn Edutopia.org se trataba de nuevo este tema a trav\u00e9s de art\u00edculo firmado por\u00a0Beth Holland<\/strong>, docente e investigadora educativa. Tras hablar con otros docentes, esta profesora concluy\u00f3 que en los\u00a0proyectos de innovaci\u00f3n implementados en colegios faltaban con frecuencia elementos fundamentales<\/strong>.\n\nSi, por un lado, los centros eran exitosos en desarrollar un entorno y una infraestructura, por otro ten\u00edan algunas\u00a0dificultades en producir cambios de comportamientos y \u00a0creencias de profesores, directivos y alumnos<\/strong>. En otras palabras, los profesores no ten\u00edan directrices claras sobre c\u00f3mo aplicar el aprendizaje basado en proyectos al curr\u00edculo existente, y los alumnos tampoco se sent\u00edan motivados para hacerlo.\n\nEn este marco es donde el\u00a0Design Thinking<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(metodolog\u00eda que centra su eficacia en entender y dar soluci\u00f3n a las necesidades reales de los usuarios) puede\u00a0hacer de puente entre el ABP y las partes interesadas.<\/strong>\n\n
\n\nSee also<\/strong>\n\n
Design Thinking: what it is and how to integrate it in your classroom<\/a><\/blockquote>