Press & Partnerships
Podcasts, published coverage, and a real-classroom case study on the Project Pals approach to AI-enhanced project-based learning — plus the partnership expanding it to more teachers.
Conversations on PBL + AI
Long-form interviews on the methodology behind Project Pals — using AI as a thinking partner and designing projects where students can’t shortcut the learning.
This podcast dives deep into project-based learning, collaboration and AI in education.
Modern workplaces are all about collaboration, but if you look inside a typical classroom, students are still often working in silos. Our guest decided to change that by bringing the tools of professional architects and project managers into the next generation. She is Miriam Bogler, founder and CEO of Project Pals.
Project Pals is helping educators bring authentic project-based learning to life through AI-powered coaching and collaboration. In this episode of the Training Impact Podcast, Miriam Bogler discusses how artificial intelligence can guide inquiry, strengthen teamwork, and help students build the real-world skills they need for the future.
Written coverage of the methodology
Project Pals: A Revolutionary Vision for AI-Powered Project-Based Learning
The article highlights Project Pals’ approach to project-based learning, where students learn by investigating meaningful, open-ended problems, collaborating with others, and applying knowledge rather than simply memorizing information. It emphasizes using AI as a Socratic coach rather than an answer machine, guiding students with questions that strengthen critical thinking, collaboration, independence, and real-world problem-solving skills.
Read the full articleThe approach in a real classroom
Project Pals: Transformative Learning Through Investigation, Collaboration, and AI
The case study shows how Project Pals uses project-based learning to help students investigate real-world problems, collaborate, evaluate evidence, and develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills. It also highlights Project Pals’ use of AI as a Socratic coach that guides students with questions rather than giving them answers, keeping students responsible for the thinking and learning.
Read the case studyProject Pals × Empowered
We’ve partnered with Empowered, the nonprofit behind free, hands-on classroom activities that get students up, collaborating, and — yes — having fun. It’s a natural fit: Empowered helps teachers build an engaged, do-then-talk classroom culture, and Project Pals brings the project-based learning and ethical AI methodology that turns that energy into deep, real-world learning.
Hands-on by default
Empowered’s activities get students experiencing a concept first — the same active-learning spirit at the heart of PBL.
AI as a thinking partner
Project Pals adds the methodology for using AI to build critical thinking rather than shortcut it.
Free for teachers
Empowered’s tools, activities, and community are free, forever — no paywalls, no subscriptions.
“Empowered gets students out of their seats and genuinely excited to learn — and that’s the perfect foundation for what we do at Project Pals. Together, we’re helping teachers turn that energy into deep, real-world learning, where students collaborate on problems that matter and use AI to think harder, not less.”
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