Not exact matches
Of course, there will always be those who question the benefits of
virtual classrooms; some will
find them too impersonal and prefer
in - person learning to digital learning.
Nothing is more demoralizing than logging
in to a
virtual classroom to
find a stack of bullets
in Helvetica font atop some Windows 95 PowerPoint template.
As national magazines and newspapers debate what it means to be literate
in a computer age
in which students butcher language
in text messages and open books less and less outside the
classroom, Greenhow has
found a
virtual creative writing boom among students spending long hours writing stories and poetry to paste on their blogs for feedback from friends, or creating videos on social issues to bring awareness to a cause.
Read the article 6 Tips To Engage Passive Learners
In eLearning and find out how you can successfully engage these individuals who acquire the information, but they aren't eager to apply it in the world outside the virtual classroo
In eLearning and
find out how you can successfully engage these individuals who acquire the information, but they aren't eager to apply it
in the world outside the virtual classroo
in the world outside the
virtual classroom.
As the world of online education continues to evolve, brick - and - mortar schools are incorporating digital curricula and
virtual teachers into their
classrooms in ways that have surprised even e-learning advocates, according to
findings in Technology Counts 2009, Education Week's annual report on the state of education technology, released on March 26, 2009.
This webinar — presented
in conjunction with Education Week TopSchoolJobs»
Virtual Career eXPO & PD Event — will look at how teachers can
find out where they are individually on the intercultural - competency continuum and how they can develop capabilities to effectively respond to and build on cultural differences
in the
classroom.
In a student - centered
classroom,
founded on collaboration, project - based learning and the use of the Web and mobile tools, learning becomes a constant, often
virtual, conversation, and students are given the opportunity to learn from mistakes, revisit prior lessons and models and make changes to demonstrate mastery.
When Julie Young
founded the Florida
Virtual School
in 1997, her team coined the slogan «any time, any place, any path, any pace» to describe how the school's online courses liberate students from traditional
classroom constraints.
Julie Young, CEO of Florida
Virtual Schools, recently shared
in an article that «it is perhaps one of the greatest ironies of online learning that teachers and students often
find it more personal than the
classroom experience.»
A 2009 analysis by the U.S. Education Department
found that there wasn't enough research to draw conclusions about how elementary and secondary students fare
in full - time
virtual schools compared with
classrooms.
Pros: This is a great
virtual classroom and we
found students are a lot more engaged when and interested
in working with others