How schools nurture and the effects of various practices are the focus of much research. Students progress at a rate most appropriate for them. Structured opportunities are provided for individual and small-group investigations of real problems. Students are encouraged to develop and practice higher level thinking skills. Opportunities are provided for students to establish goals and determine objectives.
Students learn with and from each other.
A wide range and variety of materials and resources are available. Student interests are used as a basis for learning. The computer has evolved well beyond the ancestral calculator that did amazing computations. Computers are designed to process information, and the results they furnish are as limitless as the human beings using them and the problems and applications for which they are employed. Computers can manage data whether the information they store is organized as numbers, names, words, dates, or any combination of facts.