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Technology tools can encourage students to be reflective and evaluate their own strengths. For example: Blogs offer students space where they can reflect over time about what they are learning. ProfilerPRO os an online survey tool that allows you to identify the learning characteristics of an individual and also among members of a group. TOols such as SurveyMOnkey and Zoomerang allow you to set up online surveys. You can use the results to track trends and help students see how their self-assessment compares to the larger group. To get students minds ready for a project, activating students prior knowledge is a good way to start. Many teachers do this by using KWL charts. Shake up students' ideas of what they know. Discrepant events and role-playing predictions are two ways to arouse curiosity and start students thinking about the learning ahead. Technology can offer a captivating introduction to a project, as well. Before launching a project, think about teaching prerequisite knowledge or skills students need in order to work with a degree of independence in their investigations. When students are aware of what they know and don't know they can establish a point of departure and a sense of purpose. Give students the assessment rubric you created for this project. It is their roadmap toward great achievement. To prepare students to use technology you should set up a technology playground, tap student expertise, introduce project-management skills, and then demonstrate. To promote inquiry and deep learning all students should understand the following: There is a relationship between need and opportunity, and between scarcity and abundance. Money, bartering, and other means of exchange have existed throughout history and across civilizations, and they continue to change. Modern money has symbolic worth as an exchange mechanism. Economics, health, and well-being are related. Money means different things to different people. Humans are interdependent. This relates to our project because we have to plan before we jump right into what it is we are trying to accomplish. It is important that we make sure we activate students prior knowledge and get them excited and optimistic about the project.