Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:977] RE: IFETS-DISCUSSION digest 141
From: Muhammad Betz, Ph.D. (mbetz@sosu.edu)
Date: Fri 26 Jan 2001 - 16:16:50 MET
From: "Muhammad Betz, Ph.D." <mbetz@sosu.edu> Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:977] RE: IFETS-DISCUSSION digest 141 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:16:50 -0600
Don,
The intention of the State of Oklahoma is to equalize educational
opportunity by means of the VISION effort. Oklahoma is a big state in land
size, but has such a small human population (there seems, however, to be
abundant deer and wild turkeys), that there are still many
quasi-"one-room-schools" in existence. The Internet curriculum would
provide isolated students higher quality instruction in all areas of the
curriculum. Interactive Educational Television is currently used throughout
the state at the high school level. One such project makes use of a rare
Spanish teacher at one locale who broadcasts his Spanish class to several
remote locations, in interactive manner.
Would an Internet-based curriculum replace instructors? I presume that it
would most likely change the role of teachers but not eliminate them. I do
envision that an on-line curriculum would lead to more home schooling, which
is a phenomenon that is popular in this region. And...should it not? What
is all this technology for, if it does not have an anthropological payoff
for our society. What is that payoff (?): perhaps a significant reduction
of the need for physically traveling to and fro to work, learn, and live.
Muhammad
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Donald S
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Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:966] RE: IFETS-DISCUSSION digest 141
Muhammad Betz wrote:
"Projects like VISION are the first efforts to construct highly
interactive, multimedia oriented, curriculum content, that could prove to be
independent of instructor intervention and which suggests putting the entire
public school curriculum on-line."
Sounds like you are advocating public education without teachers. Is that
so?
Don Smith
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