What role does project learning play in promoting “emotional intelligence” — in other words, social skills?
There are two aspects of technology that are important for project work: One is in the investigation of a topic or an interest. Children can not only use Internet sites to acquire information but they can evaluate sites and look at the authenticity of the people who are claiming some knowledge of some aspect of the topic they’re interested in. The other aspect of technology is communication. Children can prepare presentations to help other children, help the rest of the class understand something which they have researched, which the others may not have researched. So that part of project work is sharing the information that you’re acquiring as you engage in individual, small-group research. So technology offers many opportunities to prepare video or still photography or mix it with text and prepare a way to present your work to other children.
