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Take a moment and imagine a creative work environment. Don't worry about the kind of work going on. Just focus on the space. Close your eyes and picture it. What is that space like? What does it sound like? How are people interacting? Is there movement? Is there evidence of work in progress? Is it tidy, or busy-messy? Can you imagine working there? 
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Felix Jacomino's insight:
Here's a sample of what we do with project based learning and iPads at St. Stephen's!
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Project Based Learning (PBL) is a great way to teach students content, 21st century skills, and engage them in something fun and educational.
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Attendees of #mobile2012 collaborated on this canvas of stickies to help understand PBL and 21st Century Skills. Sometimes it helps to say what something is NOT in order to help define it better. This was part of my presentation with my colleague Inge Wassmann. @ingewassmann
Thanks to Wesley Fryer @wfryer for the awesome write up on our session! http://felixj.me/soc
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Perhaps the most difficult aspect of project-based learning for me was figuring out how I was going to assess it.
Mack James's curator insight,
April 19, 2013 6:39 AM
Standard based assessment is great for teachers to see specific skills students need help on, specific concepts, provides clarity and guided instruction that is focused on student learning
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Moving at the Speed of Creativity - Combining 21st Century Skills, Project Based Learning, and iPads
These are my notes from Felix Jacomino and Inge Wassmann's breakout session, “Combining 21st Century Skills, Project Based Learning, and iPads” at the 2012 Mobile Learning Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 13, 2012. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The official conference session description was:
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This article gives teachers ideas on how to create a thinking space for students. In any KLA the importance of helping the students to be able to concentrate is extremely importand. One of the aims in the Australian Curriculum is to allow students to become "creative, innovative and enterprising when using traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies, and understand how technologies have developed over time."
By creating a thinking space this allows students the freedom to learn and implement the above areas.
This article asks us to rethink what we think to be a work space. They outline that a workspace can come in many different forms and still be productive. By simply moving around an changing the workspace can drastically change the outcomes of student leanring and engagement in more ways than 1.