The future of education is not unlike the future of every other aspect of our lives. Digital is replacing analogue. Online high school is the wave of the future.
This is a change that we are so immersed in that we may notice it. If you put a frog in a pot of water and heat the water slowly, the frog will not try to jump out until it is too late and the water is boiling. I don't think the digital changes are going to boil us, but we are quite surrounded by them.
In a private school, an instructor will lecture to a hall full of students. This may be highly profitable, but is also highly inefficient. In a public funded system, this method is a drain on public moneys. Bring in the online school.
Disruption comes when one business plan becomes untenable due to technology advances, and struggles to prolong its life. This is quite obvious in the music and film industry. The media switch from analogue to digital has thrown licensing, and copyright assumptions into turmoil. The dinosaurs of the industry are reeling and trying everything to preserve their profits. Kids are copying music and videos, and hacking DRM at a blinding speed.
Photography is well along in its conversion to digital. Today cheap cameras are abundant, photos can be hot linked from the net, and original images are long forgotten after dozens of software edits.
Only a short time ago, taking pictures required a bulky film camera, limited capacity of pictures, and long delays in processing. Now, even the phone on your hip can snap a photo. This is the future of education as well.
Recently I bought a portable ebook reader. It is tiny but can hold 1500 books. I never leave home without it. I do a lot of reading and I have found thousands of free ebooks on the internet. I have bought a few bestsellers as well. Newspapers and magazines are also available. Real books are still nice, but I spend more and more time with my ebook reader. I also like using the 3G connection at no fee to download books from anywhere in the U.S.. This convenience is worth a lot to me.
I'm kind of an old guy, and have no small amount of nostalgia for old ways of doing things. Nostalgia is all that it is, however. For efficiency, and accessibility, nothing beats digital. Education will go the way of all analogue media.
Online high school is the new frontier. Resistance will emerge. The hold outs will likely point to the personal touch in teaching and socialization in traditional schools. Those objections are already being overshadowed by online mentors, and social networks.
The evidence is all around us. There must be a better use for those huge old school buildings. We need our best mentors teaching online, and a slick new education paradigm.
This is a change that we are so immersed in that we may notice it. If you put a frog in a pot of water and heat the water slowly, the frog will not try to jump out until it is too late and the water is boiling. I don't think the digital changes are going to boil us, but we are quite surrounded by them.
In a private school, an instructor will lecture to a hall full of students. This may be highly profitable, but is also highly inefficient. In a public funded system, this method is a drain on public moneys. Bring in the online school.
Disruption comes when one business plan becomes untenable due to technology advances, and struggles to prolong its life. This is quite obvious in the music and film industry. The media switch from analogue to digital has thrown licensing, and copyright assumptions into turmoil. The dinosaurs of the industry are reeling and trying everything to preserve their profits. Kids are copying music and videos, and hacking DRM at a blinding speed.
Photography is well along in its conversion to digital. Today cheap cameras are abundant, photos can be hot linked from the net, and original images are long forgotten after dozens of software edits.
Only a short time ago, taking pictures required a bulky film camera, limited capacity of pictures, and long delays in processing. Now, even the phone on your hip can snap a photo. This is the future of education as well.
Recently I bought a portable ebook reader. It is tiny but can hold 1500 books. I never leave home without it. I do a lot of reading and I have found thousands of free ebooks on the internet. I have bought a few bestsellers as well. Newspapers and magazines are also available. Real books are still nice, but I spend more and more time with my ebook reader. I also like using the 3G connection at no fee to download books from anywhere in the U.S.. This convenience is worth a lot to me.
I'm kind of an old guy, and have no small amount of nostalgia for old ways of doing things. Nostalgia is all that it is, however. For efficiency, and accessibility, nothing beats digital. Education will go the way of all analogue media.
Online high school is the new frontier. Resistance will emerge. The hold outs will likely point to the personal touch in teaching and socialization in traditional schools. Those objections are already being overshadowed by online mentors, and social networks.
The evidence is all around us. There must be a better use for those huge old school buildings. We need our best mentors teaching online, and a slick new education paradigm.
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To have a look at the online high school that we chose Go to National High School website. You will certainly select the one that best serves your needs. This is a good place to start.
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