Posted on 02/23/2018 10:04:59 AM PST by Uncle Sham
OnlineHigh.com, OnlineMiddle.com, these are website domain names available right now and they are THE ANSWER to our school safety problems as well almost every other problem we face in our current education efforts.
Imagine a combination of online courses and home schooling for middle schoolers or those who are attending high school. Imagine the BEST teachers having online classes produced in such a fashion so as to allow each student to learn at HIS OWN pace. Imagine teachers who are no longer needed in the present system transitioning into privatized home-school tutors for hire. No sitting duck classrooms full of students at a facility owned, operated, and maintained by the government and the associated HUGE cost associated with it.
Sell those properties, get rid of the buses, and everyone sucking off of the public education bandwagon. Start using the power of the internet and today's incredible technology to educate our kids. Social activities can be required such as athletics, art, etc which will serve to get kids together with others who have similar likes and dislikes.
Mr. President, STOP the current education insanity with a website. Online.com or Middle.com. Build it and they will come. Imagine.
No sale.
The government should not be in the education business.
I’ve said for about a decade that public schools are a paradigm created in the 19th century that outlived its usefulness in the early 21st century thanks to the internet which gives us all sorts of tools needed to effectively teach our own children - and monitor what they are actually learning.
And this last shooting is giving the whole concept a huge boost.
However, the problem is that now that both parents have to work just to make ends meet, the primary function of public schools is day care up to adulthood. People simply can’t afford the money lost if they home school. They are locked in.
And many will not admit that that is the REAL reason they won’t do it.
But, again, this one brought more people into the fold.
At 30K per student, I would be happy to take 10 a day at my house and I bet I could get them all to ACE the regents exams.
They don’t need to be. I am proposing getting them OUT of the education business. I am asking the President to make it possible.
Ping.
This opens up lots of opportunities for retired folks who care about our children’s education. There are millions of folks ready to step up and do their small part to help Make America Great Again, starting with our children!
Safety issues aside, cyberschooling will eventually replace brick-and-mortar schools. Just as cars eventually replaced horses for personal transportation.
With the internet and things like Khanacademy.org, there is no reason to pay a cent for anything. And unless you are a complete imbecile your kids will almost certainly get a better academic education than in public school, though their sex-education and liberal indoctrination may suffer.
The classroom is right there in your cell phone.
Wow, DINO DINO hit a Mickey Mantle Homerun out of the ballpark. Absolutely...posting here in Mexico, with a school that is ON LINE, we don;t have to pay teachers to arm themselves and deal with bullies, everyone is in their nook and corner studying. IT IS FUN. It belongs to PARENTS and not to the Village Boss Hillary Clinton. Whoa.
While we’re on the subject, there is one HUGE problem with cyberschooling, one that is often ignored. It’s the problem of cheating.
And it happens a lot more than some people think. I know people who took online courses, and did no work at all. They had their friends take the courses for them. As an example, a gal I know was taking an online intro biology course. She had a friend - a biologist - take all her tests for her. So got an A for the course.
Too many of these classes lazily go with an “honor system” that is ignored. The best solution: All online students must physically report to a testing center for final exams. And I’d go as far as refuse certification for any school that did not have that requirement.
Who will stay at home to monitor this computer based education? Who will give up their job to stay at home? Maybe there can be an incentive to stay at home, like a huge chunk of money off the top of your property tax if you choose the “home education program”.
Just brainstorming here.
And the buggy-whip lobby fought tooth-and-nail against the autonomous vehicle (aka 'horseless carriage') industry...
With the new technology of BlockChain and ledger based encryption, one can easily not have to worry about cheating online.
> With the new technology of BlockChain and ledger based encryption, one can easily not have to worry about cheating online. <
I should have been more detailed in my last post. The online cheating incident I mentioned previously worked like this. The cheater logged on to her online bio exam. Her biologist friend was in the room with her, looking over her shoulder and answering all the questions.
And that’s certainly not the only cheating case I’m aware of. I could cite more. (I’m a teacher, and I hear folks bragging about it, in detail.)
By the way, even a camera wouldn’t have stopped the cheating. The cheater’s helper would just have to stand off-camera and use a signaling technique.
The only - almost - foolproof method would be for the student to physically go to a testing site, and present proper ID.
“cyberschooling will eventually replace brick-and-mortar schools”
Hopefully for junior and senior high school within six years.
Once kids can read, they no longer need brick and mortar schools.
Third grade might be the last grade spent in a physical school building within a decade.
Why limit the testing to current day methodologies? Why can’t a coarse be turned into a sort of video game where as you achieve certain levels, you progress? It can be designed to be fun which would create competition for who scored the most points, etc and for slow learners to spend as many hours playing their math or science game as they wish. There are no limitations here if you really look at it.
It is.
It’s time to do away with the undefended school and all the ills that it brings.
Virtual schools is the way to go.
Liberals ought to love it, just like virtual fences.
It allows the best teachers to use the best tech support to put together a truly outstanding learning experience .
Many schools have very good teachers but there are a lot of schools with teachers who are literally functionally illiterate.
It also allows students to have a much broader selection of learning topics and sources.
Students can also select from a wide roster of teachers for any given subject matter to chose a teacher whose teaching style and approach best suits their learning style and course goals
For parents, it allows them to review course subject matter to screen for politically correct indoctrination or other unwanted subject matter in the lesson plans
Existing classrooms and schools can be used and existing teachers can be employed to work directly with students to facilitate learning in a fashion similar to the old school of British tutor style for teaching
BTW , just about anyone with drive and motivation can get a truly first class education online, free of cost. YouTube alone has actual video class lectures from the top profs at Stanford, MIT, Harvard and many others online
Most Universities including Stanford, MIT and Harvard have more extensive free online slash content on their internal websites
Some online classes can even be taken for class credit.
So you can a world class education on YouTube from an all star cast of professors from America's most elite institutions of higher learning while sitting at you kitchen table in East Podunk , Anywhere - all without spending a dime
All free and available to everyone with the ambition and motivation to apply themselves regardless of their race, gender, orientation , age, health background, income, socioeconomic status, physical location, incarceration situation or white privilege status ( checked or unchecked)
Amazing
As a matter of unofficial social commentary, Stanford Universities YouTube Intro to Computer Programming Methodology has 980,000 hits for its first lecture and about about 60,000 hits it's final class lectures
Jay-z’s Story of O.J. Has 60 million hits and Big Pimpin’ has 24 million hits
Beyonce’s Drunk on Love (explicit version) has 450 million hits
Gotta be a lesson there someplace’
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