Articles, Presentations, and Workshops

Articles, Reviews, Podcasts and Webinars, Presentations, and Workshops

Articles

Engage Students in STEM through Powerful Projects and Investigations, blog by Bob Pearlman, at Real Experieinces at Life, January 19, 2016
Designing Classrooms & Schools for 21st Century Learners, Blog by Bob Pearlman, Partnership for 21st Century Skills Blogazine, December 1, 2014
What’s Working? Lessons from pioneer 21st century school districts, Part 1. P21 blog by Bob Pearlman, September 17, 2012. Part 2, September 24, 2012.
Designing New Learning Environments to Support 21st Century Skills (PDF, downloadable), chapter by Bob Pearlman, in the new book, 21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn

Making 21st Century Schools: Creating Learner-Centered Schoolplaces/Workplaces for a New Culture of Students at Work, by Bob Pearlman, EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY/September-October 2009
“Reconsidering the Design of Schools through the Lens of Project-Based Learning” - Interview with Bob Pearlman, the Director of Strategic Planning for the New Technology Foundation, DesignShare and Education Facility Planning News, March, 2007
"21^st Century Learning in Schools – A Case Study of New Technology High School in Napa, CA", published in New Directions for Youth Development, Volume 2006, Issue 110 (Summer 2006), Special Issue: The Case for Twenty-First Century Learning.
"New Skills For A New Century: Project-based learning teaches kids the collaborative and critical thinking abilities they'll need to compete", Edutopia magazine, June 2006.

"Redesign Schools for 21st Century Learning", Published in Five Riveting Ideas, EDTECH Focus on K-12 magazine, January-February, 2005
"Getting it Done: Boston launches new 5-year technology, teaching & learning plan. Why not you?", article in Techlearning.Com, August 1, 2004
"Designing, and Making, the New American High School", Technos Quarterly, Spring, 2002. Citation: Pearlman, B. (2002). Designing, and making, the new American high school. Technos, 11(1), 12-19.
"Reinventing the High School Experience", Educational Leadership, April 2002
"New Ingredient for Student Success: Social Networks", March, 2002
"Inside the Digital Divide in the Silicon Valley: Connecting Youth to Opportunities in the New Economy", April, 2002. This article is also published on the website of the Digital Divide Network.
"Smarter Charters? Creating Boston's Pilot Schools", chapter in the book "Creating New Schools: How Small Schools Are Changing American Education", Teachers College Press, Fall 1999
"Bay Area Needs a Multimedia School-to-Career Partnership", Marin Independent Journal, June 30, 1997
"Making New Learning Opportunities for Students and Teachers", California Math Council Communicator, June 1999. PDF version.
"Straight Talk About School-to-Career Programs", Interview with Bob Pearlman
"Can K-12 Education Drive On the Information Superhighway?", Education Week Commentary, 5/25/94
"Can K-12 Education Drive on the Information Highway?", chapter in The Changing Nature of Telecommunications/Information Infrastructure, National Research Council (National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1995)
"Innovative Schools as Standard-Bearers: The Dupont Manual (KY) Learning Tomorrow Program", Case study for Facilitating Change: NFIE Learning Tomorrow Project and School Reform, 1994
"Technology and Society" and "Technological Advances", chapters in Envisioning the Future: Massachusetts' 21st Century Schools, Mass Ed Online, Center for Educational Leadership and Technology, 1994
"Designing the New American Schools", PDF, Communications of the ACM, May, 1993
"Designing a New American School", (with Henry F. Olds, Jr.), Phi Delta Kappan, Dec., 1992
"Restructuring with Technology: A Tour of Schools Where It's Happening", Technology & Learning, January, 1991
"Technology's Role in School Restructuring", Electronic Learning ,Guest Editorial, June, 1989

Reviews

An Inspiration for Today’s Innovators, Review of Becoming Self-Directed Learners: Student & Faculty Memoirs of an Experimenting High School 40 Years Later, by James A. Bellanca (Editor), Arline Paul (Editor), et al. Review by Bob Pearlman, February 12, 2014. Buy at Amazon.
Review of Leaving to Learn: How Out-of-School Learning Increases Student Engagement and Reduces Dropout Rates, by Elliot Washor and Charles Mojokowski. Review by Bob Pearlman, November, 2013.
New book: Transforming Learning through 21st Century Skills: The Who Took My Chalk?™ Model for Engaging You and Your Students, By Lydotta M. Taylor and Jill M. Fratto. Foreword by Bob Pearlman. , July 2012
Book Review: Spotlight on Technology in Education (Harvard Education Press, 2011), by Bob Pearlman, Educational Technology, November-December 2011)

Podcasts and Webinars

Podcast on Developing and Implementing 21st Century Project-Based Learning Schools, with Bob Pearlman and Mark Standley. Hosted by Duanne Redus at Wimberley Valley Radio, KWVH 94.1, Austin (TX) Hill Country, on Thursday, June 10, 2016.
The Future of Science Education: STEM and Workforce Readiness - Webinar and Video - features Project-Based Learning with interviews of Bob Pearlman, Suzie Boss, Thom Markham, Megan Pacheco, and Dan Liebert, February 2, 2012
School Environments: Transforming Learning Spaces, The Whole Child Podcast, with Bob Pearlman, Kristin Cuilla, and Luis Torres, July, 2011

Presentations

Keynote presentation at the Association for Learning Environments (A4LE) Pacific Northwest Region Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, June 22, 2016
Presentations to the Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS) on 1. New Learning Environments and 2. Innovation Labs and Makerspaces at Annual Conference, November 5, 2015, St. Paul, MN, and Webinar, May 5, 2016
Princípios/Objetivos e Práticas de Aprendizagem do Século 21, SINEPE/DF (Brasilia) 21st Century Learning Training with Bob Pearlman
San Francisco, April 22, 2016 for the SINEPE DF California schools tour delegation
January 12-13, 2005: Presentations at the 4th Annual Small Schools Planning Institute, St. Petersburg Beach, FL
November 12, 2004: "Transforming Secondary Schools for the 21st Century", Kent Secondary Head Teacher Conference, Ashford, Kent (UK)
October 12-13, 2004: Future Schools, Future Learning Conference, Manchester, England and New Schools, New Learning Symposium, Birmingham, England
August 25, 2004: "Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools:
The New Technology High School Model", High School Redesign Symposium, New Orleans ( PowerPoint, 5.36 MB)
July 19-23, 2004: Presentation and workshop materials from Alan November's Building Learning Communities 2004 Conference, Boston, MA
June 28, 2004: "Knowledge and Skills for the 21st Century", keynote presentation at conference of School to Career, Inc., New Orleans
November 21, 2003: Top Ten Recommendations from Alan November and Bob Pearlman to UK Headteachers, Specialist Schools Trust National Conference, Birmingham, UK
Bob Pearlman on Project-Based Learning: Video interview by the George Lucas Educational Foundation
Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools. PowerPoint presentation at the 2003 Building Learning Communities conference (note: this is a very large file, 6 MB-- download with a high speed connection).
"New Ingredients for Student Success" (Powerpoint), Harris County Education Technology Forum (Houston), October 1, 2002

Workshops

July 19-23, 2004: Presentation and workshop materials from Alan November's Building Learning Communities 2004 Conference, Boston, MA
November 18, 2003: Designing 21st Century Student Schools and Learning Environments, Schools’ Design Conference, Department of Education Northern Ireland (DENI), Belfast, Northern Ireland
November 2003: Technology's Role in 21st Century Learning Workshop
July 2003: Designing the 21st Century Secondary School Workshop