1. Have you tried this lesson without technology? If yes, were the learning outcomes different?
In any one class many students do this lesson without technology. Not everybody will actually type up their work. Some of them will just get as far as the notebook for whatever reason. Then there are other students who will get frustrated with the computer and they will maybe finish half the project, like maybe they will bring in a photo and just tape it to their story because they don't want to fuss with the scanner.
I think that if there is no technology in the classroom, the difference is how the teacher presents the project. You don't need technology to do the kinds of projects that I do with my learners. What I did with students before I had technology is I would take a color photograph of them, paste the color photograph on a piece of paper, draw lines on the paper, and have the student do a final copy with pen instead of pencil. What's important is that you have some sort of publishable final product that the students are striving for so that they work on making it look as good as it possibly can be. You can do that with or without technology. Technology just makes it more fun.
