With a late start to the course, I honestly have not had time yet to read many of the articles but have however, viewed the power point and gone through this discussion boards.
What surprises me most was the size and amount of time that "virtual schooling" has existed. I was surprised to see that the Florida school dates back to 1997. As I write this, the year does not seem that long ago but to me the technology does seem so "fresh" that I would not have expected any official schooling to being until perhaps after 2000. It was great to get some background on some of the key definitions of schools versus schooling and the categorization of the types of interaction.
As I posted in my initial post, being a teacher I want to take advantage of technology in my classroom, but I anticipate the biggest upside to virtual learning will be creating more authentic, rich, student-student interactions. Even in math a well-crafted, well guided student to student interaction would improve on the mostly teacher driven direct instruction type of learning that makes up most of our teacher student learning in a "real" classroom.
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