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Technology use allows many more students to be actively thinking about information, making choices, and executing skills than is typical in teacher-led lessons.
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The student is actively making choices about how to generate, obtain, manipulate, or display information.
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The teacher's role changes as well. The teacher is no longer the center of attention as the dispenser of information, but rather plays the role of facilitator, setting project goals and providing guidelines and resources, moving from student to student or group to group, providing suggestions and support for student activity.
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Another effect of technology cited by a great majority of teachers is an increased inclination on the part of students to work cooperatively and to provide peer tutoring. While many of the classrooms we observed assigned technology-based projects to small groups of students, as discussed above, there was al
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so considerable tutoring going on around the use of technology itself.
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This article talks about some of the benefits and effects that technology has on the classroom, students, and teachers.
