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FOCUS POINT: NCLB Public School Choice Requirements

COMMENT: Home Schoolers were early adapters of D.L. technologies


Submitted by Frank Heller, MPA on 10/13/04 5:58 AM

I started a small learning technology store called GLOBAL VILLAGE LEARNING nearly 10 years ago. The public schools encased computers in a lab like they were some unknown virus (Seymour Papert's observation); while home schoolers lept at using the technology.

Chats on YAHOO and other international WEB forums blossomed and evolved into on-line instructional groups. Self actualized learners learned how powerful the WEB was for research. Parents discovered that some subjects like advanced math could even be off loaded to 'smart' computers. I still remember 'Arnie' a New York accountant who taught accounting in one animated program that was a personal favorite; or those greeks in togas who taught algebra.

Urban home schoolers learned from other pioneers and in turn created a market for cyber home schooling, which has become a major industry, i.e. Calvert Learning. Some of the major innovators were Christian correspondence schools. I was struck by a Texas group which integrated Commodore CBM computers and videodisks into an instructional system--this at the time was way ahead of anything I was familiar with in public schools.

So cyber schooling is very prevalent in inner cities----if you know where to look!



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