Peter and students reflect on project learning:
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Amanda, 9th Grade Student (A): I think most kids liked it better. But some didn't like it because they were like long projects and some people just liked...like the one handout a day or two handouts a day but most like overall most people liked it.

Peter Knowles (PK): So they had a...a much broader sense of what...where they could find the information and how they could find it pretty quickly. They also know a little bit...better how to present the information, technologically speaking. I mean they knew how to do PowerPoint, they knew how to do Web pages by then. So that was not so much an issue. It was interesting to see them understand some of the things we'd hit a lot, like the graphing and the charting and things like that, using the spreadsheets--how quickly they could do that and how quickly, yeah, they could...they could find the information. Do they end up making better decisions? Um. I don't know.

(A): I think it's a great way for teachers to teach their students. It's a really good way. Cause like it... For some reason I just learned a lot more with the visual and like the slide shows other than just handouts cause I didn't remember what I wrote cause most the time I copied anyways. And with this you had to like make your own project and you had to make your own just everything. You had to make everything yourself and so it kind of like registered more than just copying a handout.

Kareesa, 9th Grade Student (K): You had your own time to do what you thought you needed to do and you just got to do what was on your mind about the work, like, oh, I need to find this or I need to find that. Instead of the teacher telling you, you need to find this, this, this, and this. You just had your own kind of point of view.

(A): It's more independent and I know a lot of kids like to work more independently. And if you're given just a deadline and you get a few weeks to work up to it, it's like easier because you can like time it. But if you have like assignments every single day, you feel so rushed just to get it done...and I learned a lot. I mean I can't remember all of it but I can remember most of it and I learned so much stuff that I didn't even know, like countries I didn't even know existed. And it was a good way to learn about the whole world.

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