This was posted in one of the iNACOL forums yesterday.
Oct. 25, 2010
Some Snowed-in Ohio Students To Learn Online
In Experiment, Ohio School District To Replace Snow Days With Online Learninghttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/25/…in6989040.shtml
(AP) COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – When bad weather hits this winter, students in a rural western Ohio school district will hit their home computers as part of an experiment.
With the Ohio Department of Education looking on, the Mississinawa Valley Schools in Darke County will try to replace days off for snow and other inclement weather with online learning.
Department officials say the test could help the state determine the future of calamity days.
School districts are allowed to declare only three this year, down from the previous five. Schools that go over must make up the days on scheduled days off or at the end of the school year.
Mississinawa Superintendent Lisa Wendel tells The Columbus Dispatch the experience in online education will help students in college, where those classes are more common.
___Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com
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This should also work for kids who are sick or suspended. With this you also need a way to give kids access who don’t have it. Something like a handheld with web access and adult material filters should do it. Even if a district doesn’t have an online product, kids can still be given generic assignments that would allow them to pursue whatever they are interested in.
Douglas W. Green, EdD
Comment by Douglas W. Green, EdD — October 27, 2010 @ 9:04 am |
Douglas, it should work for kids who are removed from the system for one reason or another – although I’m not sure the specific examples/suggestions you make are the best avenues.
Note that I removed several of the self-serving links that you included in this comment (and I’m not positive that this comment wasn’t generated by a spambot).
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