Developing Opportunity Youths’ Literacy, Creativity, and Critical thinking through PBSL: Facilitating Twenty-First-Century Learning and Mixed Realities

Vol. 41, no. 4 april 2019 9 introduction Problem-based service learning (PBsl) is an approach to literacy instruction recently proposed by the authors (2018) with the vision of promoting differentiated learning that exposes and encourages students to use twenty-first-century skills. Primarily guided by the principles of service learning, civic engagement, and problembased learning, PBSL takes into consideration the skills learners— especially minority and underserved students—need today to be successful in their classrooms and will need in the future to be successful in their workplaces.