Game Changer: Purpose-Driven Project-based Learning

04/09/14 • 9 min

InnovatED - Tomorrow's Education Innovations Today

Our guest may have changed the game on project-based learning by requiring students to work on projects for an internal market -- other teachers. Learn more... Follow: @donwettrick @bamradionetwork #edtechchat #edchat #edtech Ray Chambers is the head of ICT at Uppingham Community College and has been teaching for 7 years. His passions are technology and use of technology within the classroom. With the UK curriculum changing they had to keep up and decided to make use of Touch Develop. The students are now interviewing staff around school and building apps for the subjects.

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