We have covered a lot of important concepts in the past couple of weeks: telecommunication, collaboration, assessment, and evaluation. All are integral to creating powerful IBL/PBL projects. Each week has given me food for thought and added tools to my tool belt. I have already started embedding these concepts into my practice. In week 7 we covered telecommunication and collaboration. With today’s advances in technology, students are no longer stuck learning only within the school’s walls. They can now connect to other students around the world or with an expert in a specific field. These connections can be very powerful. Students start to see bigger pictures, see their real world potential, and are more engaged in their learning. There are some great examples of this happening all over the world that we got to explore. I really was blown away when looking at some of the projects on the Google Science Fair webpage. These kids were inspired by real world problems and situation...