What did you learn this week that struck you as particularly important in learning about virtual schools? Has your thinking changed as the result of what you learned this week?
Another week has past and I feel older than yesterday. I might be older but I'm still trying to catch up with all the latest technology that rolled in the past few days. iPad was available to the general public, Microsoft introduced their first ever social networking Mobile phone called Kin, and just yesterday Adobe announced the new release of Creative Suite 5 which specifically targets 21st century skills. All these latest technology potentially will affect how online schooling and online students learn. With this said, just based on this past few days on latest roll out of technology, doing research on online schooling is a major undertaking. Research on online schooling and online students need to incorporate what technology is being used by students, teachers, and staff. The understanding of how technology being introduced, incorporated, and integrated with the online course typically holds the key as to how successful the research is. Simply, generalizing all technology in one huge umbrella is never a good strategy but rather sets back on the reliability of the research. This type of research has been prominent in several of our readings this week. I expect in the next few years research on online school will be more mature and the generalization of technology being used in the 80s versus technology in the 21 century will not be a common entity but rather they are treated as different entity in the research.
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