Let's Differeciate!!

Which is better?

• A classroom where the students sit quietly in neatly ordered rows of desk, taking notes as their teacher lectures from the front  of the room. Students talk is limited to response to the teacher’s  question and question’s that require a right answer. They just sit, listen and receive information

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•  A classroom where the students sit in desk . They work together cooperatively. The students work excitedly because they could share their ideas about the lesson guided by the internet. These active participant talk, share, collaborate and construct meaning. 

The difference in these two classroom are striking. The first employs the traditional model or the lecture based model while the second uses a project based approach to learning that integrates  technology