What would be the impact on students if a project ended by just ceasing work without any of the suggestions in this chapter?
When I read this question I jotted down a couple of points: no summation, no esprit de corps, and no flattened classroom. If the project just stopped there would be no conclusion. In the real world, the scienctists from around the world that are collaborating in these exact way; and they will publish their work. So if a project just stops, it is not authentic learning. What a morale breaker it would be to just clean up your stuff and get a grade later! If everything is cleaned up and turned off at the end of a project, the classroom was never really flattened. It went right back into the traditional box of a classroom. It basically defeats the purpose of flattening your classroom.
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