Videoconferencing by Web means no child left in the cold
”Who can name a pair of parallel planes?” asked teacher Kim Abolafia as she motioned toward a geometric shape labeled with an alphabet soup of letters.Read the Full Story
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Guidelines for Selecting Quality K-12 Online Courses
Whether these predictions become reality remains to be seen, but there is evidence to support the growing presence of K-12 online learning. The technology infrastructure appears in place with 99% of U.S. public schools having Internet access in the fall of 2002 (Kleiner and Lewis 2003).Read the Full Story
Manhattan, Bozeman, Ennis joining statewide distance learning effort
The Manhattan School District is joining other Montana districts in forming a statewide distance learning consortium, which would allow students in one district to take classes taught in another over the Internet.Read the Full Story
School briefs: Online education courses set for early childhood
The program, called Learner Link-Durham County, is intended to help with professional development for early-childhood educators. Read the Full Story
Doubts about school computer use
Those using computers several times a week performed “sizeably and statistically significantly worse” than those who used them less often. Read the Full Story
Virtual High School program offers students unique opportunity
If, for example, students want to take an advanced placement English class because they think the school’s offering is not challenging enough, then they’re out of luck.Read the Full Story
School board will consider request for more money for online classes
The Churchill On-Line Academics program currently has 31 students enrolled in Internet classes. Of those, 16 are full time students who were included in the official count day in September. That means the district received $89,760 from the state for those students.Read the Full Story
Virtual reality bytes (and it’s a good thing): Online courses expand horizons for high school students
Rather than taking a yearlong break from math, Hinkle picked up advanced placement statistics — a class she takes outside regular school hours. Hinkle enrolled in the online course through the Kentucky Virtual High School.Read the Full Story
Amid Criticism, Santorum Pulls Kids From School
Santorum has a modest home in Penn Hills, but neighbors say he hardly spends any time there and really lives outside Washington D.C. in Leesburg, Va., where his family owns a much more expensive house. Read the Full Story
Online schools clicking
Cyber charter schools allow kids to study everything from science and math to history and reading on computers in their bedrooms, at kitchen tables, or wherever else they choose, all in the convenience of their home rather than in conventional brick-and-mortar environs. Read the Full Story
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