Schools As We've Known Them
About Obsolete, Educators Say
By BILL HISTED
Technology is about to change public education as we
know it, several principals and school board members tell me
Many of us who have not been students for a few years
would be amazed at how many of our schools are already
changing to new technology.
I visited an area school and saw seventh graders in a
"computer lab" do more with computers than I know how to do.
I spoke with our local high school principal and he told me
that already, some students are being taught by classes over the
internet. He said due to a teacher shortage in some areas, or in
cases where only a few students want to take a particular
specialty, the internet is the answer. Already, some students in
our local school have teachers hundreds of miles away. Good
teachers will still be in demand; they may just "teach" around the
country via computer.
I asked him how this would work with so many homes
where no adults are home in the daytime and he said the
technology is already here where instruction is two-way and
students are seen and can ask questions and be monitored at
home v|a internet camera just as in class at school.
A former town manager of a nearby town left and is
teaching college courses over the internet. Students at four
campuses "click on" to hear and see him. One school board
member said the day will probably come in many of our lifetimes
when school districts can cut down greatly on expenses without
cutting down on the quality of instruction.
He went to a national education seminar where it was
? presented that the time will come when some students will stay
home some days of the week and get instruction over the internet.
They may go to a school building a couple of days a week to mix
with other students and to have a teacher present in the flesh.
Technology may help curb in the ever increasing costs of
education, he believes, and will offer students far more choices in
subjects than they can now get.
This board member said many people are not aware of it,
but many school districts already are using technology to order
, supplies, for instruction and some schools no longer order paper
books but buy "computer programs" which can be updated easily.
Some colleges refuse paper enrollment applications and
some professors require all work to be submitted via e-mail.
Paper is already gone from some of America's classrooms. It is
a requirement in a growing number of colleges and universities to
have a lap top computer.
Even in one of our local high schools, much of the work
must now be submitted "electronically." I understand "notebooks"
and pencils are obsolute in many schools today.
I don't know If I would want to go back to school. Too
much to learn anymore for some middle age guy.
Bill Histed writes at 1020 N. Church Ave., Mulberry, Fl. 33860.
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