But now technology is enriching the process. From exchanging e-mail with outside mentors, to searching the Internet, to harvesting images and sounds from CD ROMs to enhance their work, student projects are becoming more relevant, more complex and broader in scope. Guided by their teachers, students work in teams where each contributes their particular strengths. In the process, they learn to think more creatively, to solve problems more effectively and to use new technologies - all lifelong benefits. Technology can make an educational experience more relevant and support skill development across subject areas.
Technology can make project-based learning more engaging and meaningful.
Technology tools engage students in greater depth on authentic, complex tasks across subject areas and enhance traditional methods of instruction.