Another thematic post of entries from my Bloglines, this one on the future of technology in the K-12 classroom and online learning. I believe most of these stem from the new book by Clayton Christensen (note I haven’t read the book yet, so I can’t comment).
- Online Learning: The high school of the future? – Louise Ernewein, Woodbury Bulletin from Online Learning Update
- How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education – Harvard Business School from Online Learning Update
- Disrupting Class – A New Book by Clayton Christensen, Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson from Online Learning Update
- Technology reshapes America’s classrooms – Reuters from Online Learning Update
- Clayton Christensen on innovation in education from Education Futures
- Textbook Publishing in a Flat World from Teaching and Developing Online
- In Class Today, Online Tomorrow from The Next Step
- Disrupting Class on The Huffington Post from Clayton Christensen
- Disrupting Class and the future of education from California Dreamin’ by Rob Darrow
As a political candidate, I promote online education for the reasons mentioned in the articles and more (I’ve got my two boys in Washington Virtual Academy). Kids can get more sleep if they don’t have to get up early for a long bus ride. They aren’t exposed the negative peer pressure to take drugs, slack off, or talk nonsense. They aren’t subjected to bullying. True they don’t get the interaction of other students, but that can be remedied if brick and mortar schools would create spaces for kids to take online courses while at school. I would like to see more studies on academic success, overall cost savings to state education, and cost savings to parents. In this era of budget deficits, online academies are even more critical. More work needs to be done to improve feedback to parents to monitor the work being done, provide more flexibility to courses taken and how far a student can work ahead. By the way, the Huffington Post stopped taking comments on your article.
Comment by Randy Dutton — September 24, 2008 @ 3:25 pm |