The ThinkQuest Internet Challenge, is an international program for students ages 12-19, that encourages teamwork among students from different countries, backgrounds, age groups and from schools with diverse levels of access to technology resources.
All participants regularly communicate and design their Web site entries using the Internet.
But- what I think what one really learns by cooperative learning is people skills. There are a lot of fears of today's kids growing up as antisocial computer geeks, but, the collaboration prevents that. With the TQ victory carne some local press-enough to route some small business my way. And then when the World Wide Web really took off, the Web page calls started coming in. Before I knew it, I was ready to form a business.