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My son told me that georgia is trying something different, high school classes on the internet, instead of at school. Another thing proposed, video classrooms, one teacher teaching several classes from a remote area,the classes would be manually monitered by a paid aide. Sure a good way to save money, and it accelerates the "dumbing of america". Just 17 more years till the white guy is a forgotten minority, guess my grand kids should start learning chinese or hindu.
Not sure why you're mad. I had internet courses in college years ago. It's nothing new.
Internet classes can give you access to instructors that you normally wouldn't have. Speakers or instructors from all over the world can be accessed through this method. It will help broaden the students' learning experience and allow them the chance to interact with the world.
An example would be your son learning about the Russian spacestation from a scientist in Russia who is involved with it or has had a hand in designing and maintaining it. Or maybe learning about tornadoes from a Kansas storm chaser. Or learning about NASA from a NASA astronaut.
Think big picture on these things...not "dumbing of america"
A little off topic of schools..
We have been doing product update/educational webinars for years now. It saves money on travel and paying folks to be gone.
Also we have networked alot of financial institutions together so they can sit in their own conference room and meet with the other branches...again saving travel and time away from the office...Pretty cool stuff.
I*'m not mad,You cant stop progress, good students will excell no matter where they are taught.But I think some of these new educators fail to take into consideration that NOT ALL STUDENTS ARE EQUALLY GIFTED. My wife and I both attended parochial schools, she for 10 yrs our children for 8 yrs, why? because of the quality of education they could recieve, both moral and acedemic.That school was NOT required to accept all students, and they had different standards of conduct to abide by. But my son teaches special ed students,who are in many cases main lined into regular class rooms,[no child left behind], can these special students benefit from video class rooms? maybe. My sister in law was also a teacher, as is a niece,both of them bemoan the course that education is headingteaching to the test is almost required, is that educating?Now what dj was talking about, tele-confereences is a great idea, it can and should cut down on costs, but still you have the seminars held in vegas or Miami, where not much is accomplished, except raising the cost of doing business.
I would rather my kids learn something from someone who has actually experienced the subject or someone who has a background focusing on the subject. I kind of like the idea as explained by Art.
My guess is that special needs students will be dealt with in a different manner.
Not sure what this has to do with the dumbing of America or white men being minorities though.
[QUOTE=DJD;442748]A little off topic of schools..
We have been doing product update/educational webinars for years now. It saves money on travel and paying folks to be gone.
Also we have networked alot of financial institutions together so they can sit in their own conference room and meet with the other branches...again saving travel and time away from the office...Pretty cool stuff.[/QUOTE]
I worked for an national orginization (contract labor) a few years back and they had a video conference that was amazing. I was in a meeting with managers in San Francisco, Baltimore, Atlanta and Louisville. Web cameras were sound directed to the person speaking, so that if you spoke the camera would look at you. Very little delay in transmission. Even has the ability to carry on side conversations with any any one in the room.
Been doing webinars here for several years too...In my opinion the thing about school children learning from school rather than home is that by going to school they get some face-to-face interaction with others (teachers and students both). Building social skills is pretty important as well as the actual learning of math, science, etc.
[QUOTE=kygorski;442714]My son told me that georgia is trying something different, high school classes on the internet, instead of at school. Another thing proposed, video classrooms, one teacher teaching several classes from a remote area,the classes would be manually monitered by a paid aide. Sure a good way to save money, and it accelerates the "dumbing of america". Just 17 more years till the white guy is a forgotten minority, guess my grand kids should start learning chinese or hindu.[/QUOTE]
It would save money. They wouldn't have to have a daycare at our local high school for the kids of unwed school girls. They could stay at home and switch from Jerry Springer to Algebra. They wouldn't have to get up early and catch the bus. They wouldn't have to participate in all of those extracurricular activities like band, or sports. And then when they graduate they can get a job where they can telecommute and stay at home and raise their kids til the age of 47. Distant training is appropriate for some things but not all.
After talking to my son somemore, the question of computers came up. NOT every family has a PC, and internet access is also a problem for some, so home schooling after a substantial cost could begin. But if thje kids are brought to0 a classroom,or school, and taught by monitor, watched by aides the cost does go down somewhat.But what happens to the projected 30% of thye teachers who will be let go?Certai9nly that will cause some impact on the local economy.
[QUOTE=Tom523;443398]It would save money. They wouldn't have to have a daycare at our local high school for the kids of unwed school girls. They could stay at home and switch from Jerry Springer to Algebra. They wouldn't have to get up early and catch the bus. They wouldn't have to participate in all of those extracurricular activities like band, or sports. And then when they graduate they can get a job where they can telecommute and stay at home and raise their kids til the age of 47. Distant training is appropriate for some things but not all.[/QUOTE]
That sounds like a wonderful way to educate our students in preparation for competition in the global market......wow!:confused: