{"id":471,"date":"2011-04-06T11:30:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T11:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/traditional-classes-arent-more-engaging-room-for-debate-nytimescom\/"},"modified":"2011-04-06T11:30:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T11:30:58","slug":"traditional-classes-arent-more-engaging-room-for-debate-nytimescom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/traditional-classes-arent-more-engaging-room-for-debate-nytimescom\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Classes Aren’t More Engaging – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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High school and middle school students are easily distracted, which is precisely why I do think they can benefit from online classes. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Traditional Classes Aren’t More Engaging – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Which is precisely WHY online classes aren\u2019t for High School and Middle School.  I have taught online classes to high school students and I have had 1 out of 10 literally be successful.  The student that was successful wasn\u2019t easily distracted.  The others were and got so distracted, they couldn\u2019t keep up.<\/p>\n

I do know that credit recovery with online courses can be effective as we do it with something called Reconnect.  The students check into a room, have supervision, and have someone who can help them when they get stuck.  BUT remember, these students have already been in a traditional classroom, but were not successful, usually due to attendance issues.  Those kids are pretty easy to teach, as they have seen the material but didn\u2019t get it (I\u2019ve worked with them face to face).  They do need the personal attention and someone to make them stick to it.<\/p>\n

I do know that the most effective way to do online courses is to mix the online experience with face-to-face experiences.  I got my master\u2019s degree in CECS from UNT that way.  I still think it takes a very mature student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  High school and middle school students are easily distracted, which is precisely why I do think they can benefit from online classes. Traditional Classes Aren’t More Engaging – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com Which is precisely WHY online classes aren\u2019t for High School and Middle School.  I have taught online classes to high school […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}