Is anyone afraid of the chance that cyber-school could one day supplant the public and private school system? While you shake your head and say, "Man this guy is off the deep end", please watch Commando, with Arnold Swarzzz a who and notice that every time the small-time bad guy needs to contact the BIG BOSSMAN, he has to use a payphone.
Things have changed, and recently I have been made aware of more and more students from my home town deferring their years in the public school system and instead choosing to attend cyber-school, and some of these choices have seemed unethical. For example, a prodigy basketball player named M. Mason was recently held back on purpose by his parents and placed in cyber-scool. The reason for this was to earn him another year in high-school basketball. There are rules, but they can be bent, and eventually legislation needs passed to stop the abuse that could result from this phenomenon.
I love the notion of sitting at home and learning, but we don't know the maturity level of these students , nor do we understand hidden agendas or other motivations that may prompt these choices. I am just in fear that, eventually, all education and content design could be outsourced or cheapened to eliminate all teaching within a traditional face-to-face environment. It may be 200 years before it happens, but history has shown us that things can change rapidly and technology has already proven to be stronger than man. So what do we do????
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Yes, things do change rapidly(and the older you get the faster that will happen. You'll see some day when you're my age.)However, technology's place in society and in the lives of the ordinary Joe is what people allow it to be. As John said, the pendulum often unexpectedly swings back the other way. Maybe the actual invader will be teachers in human form.
Bonnie took the words right out of my mouth.
Jeremy, I was hoping that your blog would follow the guidelines in the rubric and you would spend time discussing how blogs could help your future profession.
~ John
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