As a team works on a particular curricular unit, called a module, they post the design online for the other teams to comment on and critique. For those schools with no connection to the Net, a version of a browser will be copied onto a proxy server, and the lessons will be downloaded from CD-ROMs. These pilot schools will be well supported technically and educationally. Teachers may, for example, use animations, simulations or video clips to illustrate lessons in reflection, refraction or dispersion of light for an optics unit. I believe this is a better way to teach.
Students really learn when they are motivated.
They get involved. Once the teams develop and test the multimedia materials, they will distribute them in up to 50 pilot schools in each country. The final software will be available in both Spanish and Portuguese. Finding teachers who are committed to the project will be crucial, Brazil's Poppovic said. We don't want to define schools from the top down.