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[quote=Anonymous]it's a great idea.  It could be expanded substantially to allow students to take classes for which there is insufficient interest at any one school but across the system there may be enough interest to create a 'virtual' class.  It could allow leveraging the best teachers to create 'MOOCs' that all students could access. Imaging having access to TJ teachers while at your home school.  It could result in substantial reductions in transportation expenses.  It could address the problems with teacher absences that require substitutes - just live stream another teacher's lecture to the hall.  It's not a technological challenge (unless you're a technology consultant looking for a fat contract to install a few cameras).  I'll be dissed for that but just look at You Tube for how easy it is to live stream presentations.

I've found the Stanford Online High School that presents an interactive curriculum for 'home schoolers' - they get a great education with completely interactive involvement with teachers and 'classmates'.  This is the wave of the future.  Instead of scrambling to find teachers who can teach difficult subjects, Principals can leverage good teachers and video their lectures, with supplemental instruction locally.  Students can construct curriculums at their own speed - advanced, remedial and everything in between, consistent wit their interests, ambitions and regardless of their age.  The 8 yr old prodigy in math can attend his MS english class and take advanced calculus on line.  He's with his 'social' peers and still able to be with his 'virtual' academic peers.

This has a lot of potential for increasing efficiencies in addressing ESOL, and SpecEd as well.  Ed programs are including artificial intelligence so they can tailor their presentation ofthe material and their questions to the comprehension level of the student.  This is a big step forward. Check out the offerings on the Khan academy website.

There's also great potential for tutors to provide individual support to students in the classroom and/or in the Learn periods/lunch and after school.  Imaging when the teacher's presentation to the class is livestreamed and a virtual tutor can supplement by addressing questions that the student might raise.

My son is already doing this as he tutors his classmates in Chemistry - so they get a study packet online and share in GoogleDrive and he skypes a conference call with 2-4 fellow students while he works the problems on Google Drive.  His peers can ask questions and watch the solution be worked in real time.  He's not being paid enough (yet) but this will evolve.

This is going to be a big challenge to the established public school structure but it is clearly the way to improve learning outcomes and use resources more efficiently and FCPS had better be on the leading edge of this![/quote]

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