Five-year-olds entering public school for the first time this year can get a complete, computer-based education without ever leaving home. As early as kindergarten, Palm Beach and Broward County (FL) students can bypass traditional schools by enrolling in a full-time virtual-school program. They can take it all the way to high school graduation. Mostly for convenience, South Florida families in growing numbers are choosing state-sanctioned online instruction over classrooms, commuting and even home schooling.
In fact, Florida ranked first among all states last year in online-education policies and programs, according to report from the Center for Digital Education, a California-based research group. Nearly 60,000 Florida students took virtual courses. About 55 county public middle and high school students take all of their classes online, with hundreds of other students choosing to supplement their traditional or home school curriculum with virtual courses. Their teachers work for Florida Virtual School, which operates from Orlando, and Palm Beach Virtual, a franchise of Florida Virtual based in West Palm Beach.
Prezi
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I think this is a wonderful method of teaching children whom would not find success in the modern day classroom. The social skills which are missing are my major concern. I would still like to have my students on campus, even if they utilized a room and were taught entirely online. As great as computers have become in the process of teaching our children, there will always be certain things a computer cannot do when it comes to hyman interaction.
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