What topics do people talk about in terms of project-based learning (PBL) on Twitter?

Data Source: The recent 200 tweets that are related to PBL on Twitter using Twitter API. (Reduced number of tweets from 5,000 to 200 due to the limited memory)

Data Processing: Tokenized, stemming, tidied text, and Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA).

Data Analysis: Word Counts, Term Frequency, Document-topic Probabilities, Griffiths2004 Metrics

• Join us next Saturday the 24th on the discussion of Project Based Learning in Space and the future of education. https://t.co/vnFHonZTWN #edtech #stem
• Do your students ever ask you: “When am I ever going to need this?”If they do, consider rigorous PBL units in middle and high school math as your answer to that age-old student question.#stem #msch… https://t.co/AYPAbl2rJV
• What is Project Based Learning? Project Based Learning (PBL) is a teaching method in which students learn by actively engaging in real-world and personally meaningful projects. Learn more here! https://t.co/w0S1cWsKJG
• The world has so much to offer, and we can use it to help empower our students! Let’s think about our daily living experiences and bring it to the classroom by implementing project based learning approaches. Think about the quality of education our students will receive! #pblworld

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By comparing and contrasting the extracted topics using the stm, lda, and gamma function, following themes seem to emerge: 1. What PBL is about and can bring about Project-based learning is a pedagogy endeavors to cultivating deep learning through projects. For example, terms such as “question,” “opportunities,” “share,” and “inquiry” in Topics 1, 2, 9 in LDA modeling and “research,” “explor,” “engag,” and “curriculum” in Topics 3, 4, 6 in stm/gamma modeling.
2. In what domains PBL is deployed Topics 5, 7, 8 in LDA modeling and topics 1, 9 in stm/gamma lay out the domains covering linguistic, science, math, etc.
3. Who is involved in PBL It is suggested that a wide range of parties are involved in the talk of PBL. Particularly, topic 10 in LDA modeling and Topics 2 & 13 in stm/gamma modeling showed that schools, tech organizations, and educational consulting corporations are all involved. Besides, it is worth noticing that PBL topics are mostly about k-12 education.

• Limitations: As the “findThoughts” function failed in the last section, the concluded themes would need further investigation.
  
• Implications: Project-based learning as a student-centered pedagogy has not only received broad attention in different domain areas but also involved wide stakeholders in contributing to its development.
• Next Steps for Analysis: Further studies using survey and interview engaging different participant subjects (e.g., teachers, students, coaches, administrators, principals, parents, etc) are particularly needed to expand our understanding about public opinions toward PBL.