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Articles in the form of how-to blogs by Jorge Valenzuela of Lifelong Learning Defined reflect his consistent dedication to helping classroom teachers and instructional leaders improve their practice through the right balance of research, stories, and actionable steps. Here is a collection of his most notable contributions to organizations like Edutopia, ISTE, Getting Smart, PBLWorks, Teacher2Teacher, USA Today, STEM.org, and many others.

PBLWorks | 3 Ways to Help Students Improve Self-Management Skills in At-Home Learning

Jorge Valenzuela

Mar 30, 2020
3 min

PBLWorks | 3 Ways to Help Students Improve Self-Management Skills in At-Home Learning

By: Jorge Valenzuela This original post can be accessed via PBLWorks on this link. No doubt, the coronavirus pandemic is transforming the...

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PBLWorks | How to Prepare Students for Explaining Their Work in Public

Jorge Valenzuela

Jul 9, 2019
4 min

PBLWorks | How to Prepare Students for Explaining Their Work in Public

In PBL, the public product holds great significance and is genuinely an opportunity for you and your kids to show others outside the four...

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PBLWorks | How Students Become Ideal Teammates

Jorge Valenzuela

Mar 18, 2019
4 min

PBLWorks | How Students Become Ideal Teammates

See original post here. Like anything else in the PBL classroom, effective teamwork needs to be modeled, learned, and reflected on....

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Buck Institute for Education | Embed Literacy into STEM Projects

Jorge Valenzuela

Aug 6, 2018
1 min

Buck Institute for Education | Embed Literacy into STEM Projects

(Originally posted at ISTE.org) STEM is nothing without literacy. As STEM/STEAM educators, we want to help students think and work like...

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ISTE | Embed Computational Thinking into PBL

Jorge Valenzuela

Jul 17, 2018
1 min

ISTE | Embed Computational Thinking into PBL

Like many of my students, my daughter, Anisa, is very familiar with using electronic circuits to make designs cool inventions. So, when I...

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Jorge Valenzuela

Jul 1, 2018
7 min

The Computational Thinker’s Project

In a recent ISTE blog by Julie Randles, computational thinking (CT) was named the #1 hottest topic in edtech! Being a firm believer that...

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ISTE | Embed Literacy into STEM Projects

Jorge Valenzuela

May 1, 2018
1 min

ISTE | Embed Literacy into STEM Projects

STEM is nothing without literacy. As STEM/STEAM educators, we want to help students think and work like engineers and computational...

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Buck Institute for Education | Technology and Engineering Education is Ripe for PBL

Jorge Valenzuela

Jul 29, 2016
4 min

Buck Institute for Education | Technology and Engineering Education is Ripe for PBL

See the original blog post here. Today Technology and Engineering Education (TEE) is a discipline under the umbrella of Career and...

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The Buck Institute for Education | Gold Standard PBL: Scaffold Student Learning

John Larmer, BIE Editor in Chief

Jan 29, 2016
1 min

The Buck Institute for Education | Gold Standard PBL: Scaffold Student Learning

The term “scaffolding” has been used in U.S. education for a while now, and its meaning has gotten a little fuzzy. When originally coined...

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PBLWorks | 3 Ways to Help Students Improve Self-Management Skills in At-Home Learning

PBLWorks | How to Prepare Students for Explaining Their Work in Public

PBLWorks | How Students Become Ideal Teammates

Buck Institute for Education | Embed Literacy into STEM Projects

ISTE | Embed Computational Thinking into PBL

The Computational Thinker’s Project

ISTE | Embed Literacy into STEM Projects

Buck Institute for Education | Technology and Engineering Education is Ripe for PBL

The Buck Institute for Education | Gold Standard PBL: Scaffold Student Learning

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