In educating a classroom, there is so much that students need to know. When it is taken into consideration exactly what students need to be able to do, the two most important things it came down to were synthesis and evaluation. When a student is able to work with others in their class, they can together further their learning process. If they are able to complete a task together with a combined effort, all involved can benefit - not only in their grades, but in how they can also further develop their cognitive skills.
In Bloom's taxonomy of the Cognitive domain, one of the two most important things for a student to be able to do is evaluate. Technology today can be one of the most beneficial resources available to students. Different programs allow them to work with classmates to bring together all of their elements of their projects. Putting the pieces together with ease and seeing how everything fits together can simply show a student the ways in which a puzzle of a project can come together. "Students writing collaboratively provide feedback on each others writing using Common Space, a communication and feedback software. Because the students' comments appear in separate columns set up for each writer, this software facilitates collaborative writing by bringing together feedback from each group member onto one draft, without losing track of the source of each response" ("Commonly Asked Questions about Teaching Collaborative Activities"). With programs like this available, students can critique their groupmates work, and get constructive feedback on their own, allowing their work to improve as a whole, and allow them to understand what to avoid the next time around.
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