Submitted by Bob Collier (not verified) on October 14, 2007 - 18:50.
Something you don't mention is that, while professional educators working within the school and college system may be scared or challenged by digital technology, the home education movement is lovin' it.
My experiences as the parent of a 22-year old conventionally schooled university graduate and a 12-year old self-educated Digital Native certainly suggest to me that, ten or twenty years from now, the desires and intentions of 'the professionals' may be of no interest at all to perhaps even a majority of 'school age kids' who know only too well what they're capable of achieving by their own motivation.
The internet has indeed broken the school walls down, but what that means may not be what educationalists generally seem to think it means.
Something you don't mention
Submitted by Bob Collier (not verified) on October 14, 2007 - 18:50.
Something you don't mention is that, while professional educators working within the school and college system may be scared or challenged by digital technology, the home education movement is lovin' it.
My experiences as the parent of a 22-year old conventionally schooled university graduate and a 12-year old self-educated Digital Native certainly suggest to me that, ten or twenty years from now, the desires and intentions of 'the professionals' may be of no interest at all to perhaps even a majority of 'school age kids' who know only too well what they're capable of achieving by their own motivation.
The internet has indeed broken the school walls down, but what that means may not be what educationalists generally seem to think it means.