text: With far more benefits, assigning student-based projects is superior to assigning teacher-based projects. Some may argue that teacher-designed projects are fairer to students because they assign every student the same project. However, student-based projects allow students to apply themselves to a subject that they have an actual interest in and produce far better results than the "equal" teacher-based projects do. In other words, would you rather have students go into the real world ready and able to think for themselves or would rather have machine-like students who only know how to follow directions? You decide.         Imagine if you could realize your friends emotions all the time. Facial Action Coding Systems might be our new way to know how someone is feeling. New software is being developed to better comunicate emotions. What if we had this technology in schools? To better understand our peers and know if they are okay. This would be a tremendous advance in schools nowadays.