Comments on: How the Internet is Changing Education http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-the-internet-is-changing-education/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:18:05 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Web Development Gainesville http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-the-internet-is-changing-education/comment-page-1/#comment-77629 Web Development Gainesville Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:02:24 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-the-internet-is-changing-education/#comment-77629 Education online is a great form of learning. For me, I did better in college with online classes. Classrooms can be very distracting and this eliminates those distractions. Education online is a great form of learning. For me, I did better in college with online classes. Classrooms can be very distracting and this eliminates those distractions.

]]> By: Mike got a degree http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-the-internet-is-changing-education/comment-page-1/#comment-72051 Mike got a degree Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:15:16 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-the-internet-is-changing-education/#comment-72051 Well: In other words, why should they pay for a learner who is not motivated. The same question needs to be asked by third party funders of college students... Well: In other words, why should they pay for a learner who is not motivated. The same question needs to be asked by third party funders of college students…

]]> By: Varsity Blah http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-the-internet-is-changing-education/comment-page-1/#comment-40229 Varsity Blah Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:50:57 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-the-internet-is-changing-education/#comment-40229 <strong>Schools of Thought...</strong> Technology is amazing. More recently, it’s opened up the possibility of global education and e-learning. Naturally, there are several implications. Does this mean traditional institutions are losing their power or will they always remain relevant? An... Schools of Thought…

Technology is amazing. More recently, it’s opened up the possibility of global education and e-learning. Naturally, there are several implications. Does this mean traditional institutions are losing their power or will they always remain relevant? An…

]]> By: tracy ho http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-the-internet-is-changing-education/comment-page-1/#comment-34547 tracy ho Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:50:46 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-the-internet-is-changing-education/#comment-34547 what a good idea , maybe new era will learn more daily. to your success always Tracy Ho www.wisdomgettingloaded.com/ what a good idea , maybe new era will learn more daily.
to your success always
Tracy Ho
http://www.wisdomgettingloaded.com/

]]> By: Roy http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-the-internet-is-changing-education/comment-page-1/#comment-29611 Roy Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:48:12 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-the-internet-is-changing-education/#comment-29611 You forgot to mention how the Mill Universities are beginning to dominate advertising in Education. You forgot to mention how the Mill Universities are beginning to dominate advertising in Education.

]]> By: Waldo http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-the-internet-is-changing-education/comment-page-1/#comment-29407 Waldo Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:31:41 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-the-internet-is-changing-education/#comment-29407 Spring forward. Fall back. You did not Fall Back your clock. If it is 4:25 pm, I am in the ocean. This information service was provided at no charge by Waldo. Spring forward. Fall back.
You did not Fall Back your clock.
If it is 4:25 pm, I am in the ocean.
This information service was provided at no charge
by Waldo.

]]> By: Waldo http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-the-internet-is-changing-education/comment-page-1/#comment-29404 Waldo Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:25:22 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-the-internet-is-changing-education/#comment-29404 Why not the best of both worlds? Go party for 2 years, er...I mean,learn those social skills. Come home and sober up for the final 2 years online, and pocket $50,000 if you pass the final. Facebook and the like will allow you to retain the very best of education in your first 2 years. Florida already experiments with this online education. Travel to Waldo, Florida near Gainesville. You may ask "Where's Waldo?", but do NOT ask the locals. This is the speed trap capital of the universe. They especially hate out of state plates. Imagine a 65 MPH sign on a 4 lane road (2 lanes each direction and a wide median for the sole cop). In one block, speed is 55 MPH; next block 45 MPH; next block 35 MPH; next block 45 MPH (you are leaving Waldo); next block 55; and finally, a block later, 65 MPH again. You just did all of Waldo and the sole fruit stand. You also went 23 MPH over the speed limit if you went thru the 35MRH zone at 68 ... (tho, it would be a no ticket speed before and after Waldo. Here is the online part. You can go to Florida Driving School (MUST be an approved site) and take a 5 hour exam. (It can be done in 20 minutes but you are penalized and have to start over if you do a block of test too fast (like the outdoor drivers do). This fine education experiment will reduce your fine 30%, or the exact amount of fee to take the test. It will eliminate 4 points. And, the insurance folks are not allowed to consider you as evil as Saddam. (Best of luck there). Upon graduation, you get an official certificate. The original MUST be returned to the county (in this case Alachua for Waldo --that sounds almost as funny as saying Managua Nicaragua fast, try it...Waldo Alachua...Managua Nicaragua, :) ). If the clerk does not get the original and official paper in the right time period, all bets are off, you forfeit 1 of your 5 lifetime chances to do this, and Jeb Bush gives you the death penalty personally. After this fine education experiment on the Internet, who could argue that the system does not "pay off"? The only hassle you will have over Internet education is Bill Gates and Steve Jobs arguing over which system to use, and Sony supplying horrendous laptops. Kids will just text message each other the answers anyway. Why not the best of both worlds?
Go party for 2 years, er…I mean,learn those social skills. Come home and sober up for the final 2 years online, and pocket $50,000 if you pass the final.

Facebook and the like will allow you to retain the very best of education in your first 2 years.

Florida already experiments with this online education.
Travel to Waldo, Florida near Gainesville. You may ask “Where’s Waldo?”, but do NOT ask the locals. This is the speed trap capital of the universe. They especially hate out of state plates.

Imagine a 65 MPH sign on a 4 lane road (2 lanes each direction and a wide median for the sole cop). In one block, speed is 55 MPH; next block 45 MPH; next block 35 MPH; next block 45 MPH (you are leaving Waldo); next block 55; and finally, a block later, 65 MPH again. You just did all of Waldo and the sole fruit stand.
You also went 23 MPH over the speed limit if you went thru the 35MRH zone at 68 …
(tho, it would be a no ticket speed before and after Waldo.

Here is the online part. You can go to Florida Driving School (MUST be an approved site) and take a 5 hour exam. (It can be done in 20 minutes but you are penalized and have to start over if you do a block of test too fast (like the outdoor drivers do).

This fine education experiment will reduce your fine 30%, or the exact amount of fee to take the test. It will eliminate 4 points. And, the insurance folks are not allowed to consider you as evil as Saddam.
(Best of luck there). Upon graduation, you get an official certificate. The original MUST be returned to the county (in this case Alachua for Waldo –that sounds almost as funny as saying Managua Nicaragua fast,
try it…Waldo Alachua…Managua Nicaragua, :) ).
If the clerk does not get the original and official paper in the right time period, all bets are off, you forfeit 1 of your 5 lifetime chances to do this, and Jeb Bush gives you the death penalty personally.

After this fine education experiment on the Internet, who could argue that the system does not “pay off”?

The only hassle you will have over Internet education is Bill Gates and Steve Jobs arguing over which system to use, and Sony supplying horrendous laptops. Kids will just text message each other the answers anyway.

]]> By: ontilogical sacrifice http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-the-internet-is-changing-education/comment-page-1/#comment-28667 ontilogical sacrifice Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:04:36 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-the-internet-is-changing-education/#comment-28667 mollyc You are quite correct regarding this ...Only if you are lucky enough to both have a computer and live in a place with reliable internet access, which is certainly not true for parts of the world that may be able to benefit most from this online education model." However, given the cost of a traditional education ($25,000 per year, a small group of students in a remote location can be served FAR less expensively with online learning. The OLPC (one laptop per child,http://laptop.org/) is aimed at allowing learning where there isn't regular power or wired internet. As for people learning to use the computer in the first place, I think they'll work it out http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1502820.stm mollyc
You are quite correct regarding this …Only if you are lucky enough to both have a computer and live in a place with reliable internet access, which is certainly not true for parts of the world that may be able to benefit most from this online education model.”
However, given the cost of a traditional education ($25,000 per year, a small group of students in a remote location can be served FAR less expensively with online learning. The OLPC (one laptop per child,http://laptop.org/) is aimed at allowing learning where there isn’t regular power or wired internet.

As for people learning to use the computer in the first place, I think they’ll work it out http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1502820.stm

]]> By: ontilogical sacrifice http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-the-internet-is-changing-education/comment-page-1/#comment-26903 ontilogical sacrifice Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:56:37 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-the-internet-is-changing-education/#comment-26903 Experiments done in the 1960's with Fred Keller's (Keller was a psychologist and friend of BF Skinner) teaching system, PSI (Personalized System of Instruction) showed that it was dramatically more efficient for most learners (the downside being that it required more work on the part of the instructor). It also showed that PSI based learning held up over time better (follow up tests given 2 years after a class showed retention by PSI students much better than standard methods). A short summary of PSI is this: learning is broken up into modules (a couple days to a week of learning), after each module a student is tested on their retention, they can only go on to the next module when they've reached a level of "mastery". This changes the variable of learning from a grade (bad grades are punitive) to (potentially) a number of credits. The problem I see in this system is that it would work well for reading comprehension, arithmetic through calculus, basic psychology, chemistry, physics etc, it would be hard to teach art classes this way. (I was going to add music classes, but it occurred to me that I've used computer based learning for piano and it worked well). This model seems like it would work particularly well for a knowledge based economy (I should confess that I believe that our existing school system is designed to create good factory workers). It seems like it would be well worth the investment to create several multimedia(suited for different learning styles) k-16 level (18 grades * 4 variants * 20 different tracks * 10 (combined teacher & web master) years per subject at 100k year = $36,000,000 to cover 90%+ of what's in US schools ) classes in PSI of every common subject (reading, composition, mathematics, geography etc). Now, how to get that done? Experiments done in the 1960’s with Fred Keller’s (Keller was a psychologist and friend of BF Skinner) teaching system, PSI (Personalized System of Instruction) showed that it was dramatically more efficient for most learners (the downside being that it required more work on the part of the instructor). It also showed that PSI based learning held up over time better (follow up tests given 2 years after a class showed retention by PSI students much better than standard methods).
A short summary of PSI is this: learning is broken up into modules (a couple days to a week of learning), after each module a student is tested on their retention, they can only go on to the next module when they’ve reached a level of “mastery”. This changes the variable of learning from a grade (bad grades are punitive) to (potentially) a number of credits.
The problem I see in this system is that it would work well for reading comprehension, arithmetic through calculus, basic psychology, chemistry, physics etc, it would be hard to teach art classes this way. (I was going to add music classes, but it occurred to me that I’ve used computer based learning for piano and it worked well).
This model seems like it would work particularly well for a knowledge based economy (I should confess that I believe that our existing school system is designed to create good factory workers).
It seems like it would be well worth the investment to create several multimedia(suited for different learning styles) k-16 level (18 grades * 4 variants * 20 different tracks * 10 (combined teacher & web master) years per subject at 100k year = $36,000,000 to cover 90%+ of what’s in US schools ) classes in PSI of every common subject (reading, composition, mathematics, geography etc).
Now, how to get that done?

]]> By: Mary Olsten http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-the-internet-is-changing-education/comment-page-1/#comment-26669 Mary Olsten Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:34:16 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-the-internet-is-changing-education/#comment-26669 Online university education is not just a replacement for traditional college education. We have embraced the "online university" model to reach parents who are often struggling with particular issues in the family. Our approach at Better Parenting University is simple - provide quality course content and expert instructors to teach that content. Parents gain the knowledge that they are seeking to fill a gap in their own parenting skills. This online university model is one that parents understand and seem to be more comfortable with than other traditional or online approaches to obtaining parenting support and advice. I think we will see an increase in other learning topics as technology increases to become more sophisticated, people's schedules become even more filled, and the convenience of anytime, anywhere access becomes a necessity. Online university education is not just a replacement for traditional college education. We have embraced the “online university” model to reach parents who are often struggling with particular issues in the family. Our approach at Better Parenting University is simple – provide quality course content and expert instructors to teach that content. Parents gain the knowledge that they are seeking to fill a gap in their own parenting skills.

This online university model is one that parents understand and seem to be more comfortable with than other traditional or online approaches to obtaining parenting support and advice.

I think we will see an increase in other learning topics as technology increases to become more sophisticated, people’s schedules become even more filled, and the convenience of anytime, anywhere access becomes a necessity.

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