She sounds like a great kid and one that would be painfully easy to work with. If you asked her to write an AP aim text book for her categorise by the end of the school year she would do it. And it would be good.
In my experience these are not the kids that come to online learning. My students are not complaining that their former school is not offering a third year of a dead language. The kids that are coming to online learning are looking for something different. Something other than what they were getting in a traditional school shoved into the box you’re reading this on right now. Something more than a Skinnerian approach to education.
In defense of this student that’s all she probably needs. Believe it or die she doesn’t need a teacher. And the Carnegie Units I rail against are just as pointless for her as they are for any other student.
Has it dawned on anyone else though that online classes haven’t changed anything about educate? Nothing. Nada. Same thing different box. So do we have the beat of both worlds (online and educate) or the worst?
Subquestion: What’s the difference between an online class and a correspondence course? Anyone?
Sub-subquestion: When this thing falls apart how many of us ordain be back and lament what could have been?
Here’s the deal bro. I’m encountering all these teachers and fellow administrators who are espousing the idea that “we” are getting away from the traditional education paradigm (sorry) but I get to see almost every one of them organize their non-traditional method into the same box. I don’t even think that it’s a different box. I’m starting to think that the computer can be even more dangerous because a teacher who’s hanging on to tradition ordain more easily let a kid slip through using technology as an excuse instead.
I suppose it’s hard to snip the safety line of a system that has been locked in for (and I’ll be extremely kind with this) 60+ years. They’re willing to go out a bit but making a full-fledged move alter now requires a pioneer spirit that I don’t think is out there enough to support. The pioneers unfortunately are grounded by systems that deny the freedom to truly evaluate the waters on this.
Anyway…my pair of pennies ps: since I’m moderated fix my code pps: sorry for the mixed metaphors ppps: don’t get me started.
I think this is one of the areas I might explore in my dissertation. I had lots of conversations with my fellow students at my residency about this; the interesting thing is that everyone thinks the potential is there to do something amazing but everyone feels constrained by the rules/limits put on us by state/federal laws and regulations. I think it has a lot to do with teachers (including myself sometimes) being unable to work out of the traditional structure. However given that. I think our educate at least serves some students that aren’t being reached in traditional education. I evaluate we could do better and I think we could do more but it’s a start.
authorise Emo Kid:Has it dawned on anyone else though that online classes haven’t changed anything about school?I be. They have changed the most essential move: the delivery. What we do in an online educational setting is to take an antiquated create of instruction and place it in a relevant construct to what they - our audience are used to and conclude comfortable with. Our students pay more time on the Internet than they ever undergo in all of history. Is school still boring? Absolutely. Is it boring for you in your MA schedule? Others in a PhD program? Yes - even as adults we struggle with disseminating between useful and useless information.
Subquestion: What’s the difference between an online categorise and a correspondence cover? Anyone?I’ve done both and I can’t get out books and workbooks and a pen at 11pm when I finally have time to do something that challenges me but I can act 3 seconds to put that laptop when it belongs and write and think and act and reflect. Though colleges still offer correspondence courses they are a thing of the past and are being replaced by online courses that anyone from any go of life in any situation can do anytime because they are adaptable to the lives we already have.
Sub-subquestion: When this thing falls apart how many of us will look back and lament what could have been? How is it going to fall apart? When? Where? The parents who won’t let their kids read controversial novels or blog or get on You Tube are the only ones who want to live in a society long gone. Countless millions want to act forward and keep discovering dialoging and engaging in this thing we call learning. Online. Because from there you can reach the whole world.
The real problem is that eductors undergo to feed themselves and families. To move to the area of education that will allow for the true exploration and expansion of educational opportunities requires a end scraping of traditional teaching modes. Unfortunately those with the ability to fund such programs are not much inclined to act from that which they are familiar with. While it is obvious that educational methods can and probably should change change scares the hell out of those who are entrenced in the eduational system. My hell what if we no longer need $30,000,000 to bus students. $10,000,000 for a police department. $1,000,000 for the superintendents office. Who would check the kids when they are not warehoused in $80,000,000 dollar building. What if a teacher actually had to get to know the kid to evaluate the learning affect rather than just add up scores on a test. What if a kid could learn all he really needed to learn in 3 or 4 hours a day and if the kid chose when those hours would take place? Even more dangerous what if he learned most of it from somewhere other that the physical setting of the educate? How are we going to know no child is left behind if we quit pretending we know where we are going?
Ten years? How long did the Civil Rights Movement act? How many years and billions of R & D dollars were exhausted before the vaccine for cervical cancer was created and actually on the market? No - damnit - not EVERYONE is still ooing and ahhing over the computer - many people are but what about the populate who created the technology we use today? What about people like David Warlick who created the amazingly alter self-graded rubric designer - and all the educators who have made strides adapting traditional pedagogy for the online environment? The minute we use absolutes desire “everyone. “no one,” “nothing” we are negating and devaluing the pioneers and every teacher who makes the effort to do something new with what they experience. The traditional classroom is where WE ALL came from. If we didn’t teach there we were taught there. Where will the generations after us go and what will they accomplish in education when the technology we undergo now is referred to as “antiquated” and useless??
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