Matt Weinbaum

Matt Weinbaum, student at Model High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, explains that his school is structured differently because it focuses on group-oriented work. He also explains how the Internet plays a part in the school's collaborative work. Excerpted from Learning With Technology: Merging Onto the Information Highway, produced by NCREL in 1994.

"Our school's different, as far as the structure of the school it's more group work. The internet kind of falls into that category because as a group you can go out on the internet and each person can find a different resource to add to the group's learning. Let's say you were studying earth science. You could go out on the internet and each person could find a different resource on the internet that would relate to earth science and then bring it back to the group. You know if you had an encyclopedia on a cd disk, every student would see the same thing. You could go out on the internet and even though the students were using the same program, I bet you nine times out of ten they'd all come back with something different from the internet."