A number of researchers have noted greater mutual assistance among students when using technology. A shift from all students learning the same things to different students learning different things. A number of studies have shown how technology can support students as they tackle various parts of a complex projec, each contributing to a larger final product. Technology helps students maintain focus and manage information as they work on separate aspects of a problem. A shift from the primacy of verbal thinking to the integration of visual and verbal thinking.
Many teachers go through identifiable stages on their way to becoming experienced technology users.
Later, as teachers gain confidence, they use technology as part of more innovative instruction, including team teaching, interdisciplinary project-based instruction, and individually paced instruction. Finally, they enter an inventive stage in which they experiment and change, using technology to support active, creative, and collaborative learning.