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Aug 12

What will we offer our students in person that they can’t receive online?

As online education grows so does the potential for students to opt out of face to face attendance. What will we offer our students in person that they can’t receive online? The answer is simple. Each other. I value the way we connect online but face to face is different and valuable. We need to be very careful that we aren’t trying to replicate the face to face experience online and vice versa. One to one computing can still be a great thing but I’ve seen too many classrooms where students stare at screens. They can do at home. What they may not be able to do at home is sit with 2 or 3 classmates and design, talk, build and interact face to face.
Dean Shareski via http://www.techlearning.com/blogs/41202

Please don't say 'direct instruction'

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Jul 13

Students are more interested in online learning than teachers?

while the proportion of high school students who had taken an online course as of last fall tripled from fall 2008, from 10 percent to 30 percent, only about 26 percent of teachers surveyed expressed interest in diving into online teaching if they hadn't already done so
via http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2011/07/13/36iste.h30.html?r=349796550

Filed under  //  didyouknow   edtech   online learning  

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Nov 4

Using the Internet to educate ourselves frees us from bondage

I do not accept the conclusion that the use of the Internet to educate ourselves is some sort of surrender to neoliberalism. Far from it; it removes us from the sort of bondage that allows such a government to withhold, as though by some sort of right, our natural inheritance, our access to the knowledge and cultural capital of society as a whole. It is only from the perspective of people as consumers or recipients of an education that online learning appears as a devolution of individual rights to commercial culture; but if in place of the educational institution we create our own form of learning through free association with each other, then we create an educational system that cannot be abridged, cannot be held hostage, cannot be sacrificed to corporate or proprietary interests.
Stephen Downes via http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-downes/deinstitutionalizing-educ_b_777132.html

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Sep 14

Your teen has a better option?

K12

I saw this ad on CNN.com. An interesting advertising slant...

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Sep 11

Teaching online allows more individual attention for students

Teresa Dove, a Virginia resident who teaches math online for Florida Virtual School, received the first National Online Teacher of the Year Award for K-12 education last night. . . .

Dove said after receiving the award that teaching online allows her to spend much more time working individually with students than she did previously in a traditional classroom. Spending only a moment with students in a traditional classroom is “not enough, and our kids deserve better,” she said. It also has allowed her to care for two young children at home and to teach even while caring for her mother in the hospital.

via http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/inacol-sreb-announce-1st-online-teacher-of-year

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Nov 24

Should educators be able to get PD credit for participating in a PLN?

Why is it that I can get 1 continuing ed credit for sitting in an hour-long presentation by an obviously biased cooperately employed presenter and not engage myself meaningfully in the topic at hand but for an hour of reading and meaningful career related reflection in my PLN I get nothing institutionally recognized?

via Carl Anderson

I think Carl meant "corporately-employed"... Great question (tough logistically, though)!

Filed under  //  Internet   education   learning   online learning   professional development   staff development   technology  

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Nov 7

How social networking will transform learning

I'm betting on social learning platforms as a lever for improvement at scale in education. Instead of a classroom as the primary organizing principle, social networks will become the primary building block of learning communities (both formal and informal). Smart recommendation engines will queue personalized content. Tutoring, training, and collaboration tools will be applications that run on social networks. New schools will be formed around these capabilities. Teachers in existing schools will adopt free tools yielding viral, bureaucracy-cutting productivity improvement.
via huffingtonpost.com

From Tom Vander Ark. He needed to edit this one before posting!

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Sep 26

Getting students more learning time online

Getting Students More Time Online: Distance Education in Support of Expanded Learning Time in K-12 Schools. A report from the Center for American Progress and the Broad Foundation. Here's an excerpt:

Virtual schools have worked for more than 1 million American K-12 students. Online courses already serve students on a broad scale in countries such as Singapore and South Korea. These are countries that use online courses as one of the strategies to offer longer school days and longer school years. Students in these countries outperform American students in Programme for International Student Assessment and Trends in Mathematics and Science tests. They are a required part of the curriculum in some areas of the United States because they are effective and because they are a standard approach to learning when students leave high school for higher education and career development. Online courses combine flexibility, personalization, interaction, independence, rich media, and proven materials. They connect teachers and learners across the full scope of cultures.

I've worked with the author, Dr. Cathy Cavanaugh, in the past. She's great!

[hat tip to Michael Horn]
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