Disrupting Class, Expanded Edition: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Christensen Clayton & Johnson Curtis W. & Horn Michael B

Author:Christensen, Clayton & Johnson, Curtis W. & Horn, Michael B. [Christensen, Clayton]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2010-09-09T16:00:00+00:00

24. Picciano and Seaman, pp. 11, 16, and 17.

25. See Virtual ChemLab, http://chemlab.byu.edu/Tour.php (accessed on October 22, 2006). Sam Dillon, “No Test Tubes? Debate on Virtual Science Classes,” New York Times, October 20, 2006.

26. In a different twist, Robert Wedl, a former Minnesota commissioner of education who is now working for the Education Evolving network, recalls a discussion with some 50 teachers in April 2007. These teachers had been laid off from rural schools with declining enrollments, despite having an average of 12 years of experience and most having advanced degrees. They banded together in a chartered online school called Blue Sky, governed by a board consisting mostly of teachers. The big surprise, Wedl reports, is how these teachers describe the bond they have with individual students, whom they have never met face to face. They have about the same ratios to handle as they had in traditional schools—roughly 150 students a day—but online, each one is truly an individual. The students call or e-mail at all hours because they are doing their schoolwork at all hours. Even children who were formerly behavior problems in school seem to have shaped up. It’s hard to be a behavior problem in a class of one. (Conversation with Robert Wedl, notes by Curtis W. Johnson.)

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