Thus, whereas a transformed learning environment can better facilitate the integration of technology into the curriculum, there will be a positive impact on learning. The transformed approach is assumed to have several advantages over the traditional approach. Specialization enables teachers to create multi-dimensional activities for a particular subject, thus becoming more proficient at integrating instructional software for their one area of expertise. Learning stations enable teachers to shift to more facilitative roles and plan more engaging computer activities for students. There is also a teacher station where teachers can work with individual students as well as small groups.
Children spend one hour a day in each of the cluster classrooms.
The rest of the day they are with one of the teachers whose classroom also serves as their home base. Through the team approach, children have access to computers every day in one subject or the other. And the learning station approach, along with a structured classroom management system, enables equitable access to computers for all students. However, there is a growing body of research that supports computer-based learning. Most of the early research in the 1970 s involved experimental or quasi-experimental studies conducted by university researchers.