“Free, quality education has been a dream of many educators” (Winkler 3). Many teachers would like their students to succeed and be provided with alternative ways of learning and understanding material. Now, the controversy of online-based education versus traditional public school education has arisen. Some feel that online courses allow high school students to have a well-rounded "depth of study," while others argue that physical schools are just as informative and actually essential to student development. But online schooling poses distractions for students and detracts from their acquiring social skills. The ineffectiveness of online learning should be a strong motivation for students to enroll in physical public school. Unfortunately,
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They are taught how to make presentations and have verbal discussions all of which are hard to reproduce online. “Even the best technology is no good substitute for in-person interaction, giving someone your attention, looking them in the eyes, speaking to them instead of away, learning how to take turns, communication, and sharing ideas and cooperating—all these things are difficult to 'simulate ' online, and it is still, at best, just a 'simulation.”(Abraha 3). Some things are just better understood face to face, were improvement and corrections can be made rather than online. The ineffectiveness of online education is because lack of the peer and teacher aspect. But there isn’t one right way of comprehension. It depends if the student has the ability to grasp the …show more content…
With the technology today access to information over the World Wide Web is unlimited. However, “what is written over the Internet is not necessarily what was meant by the author"(Abraha 3). Not everything online is credible and there is truly no one way to find out if the source is was intendent for one purpose, but is manipulated for another. What is written online could have been taken out of context from a larger basis and interpreted differently. On the other hand, online learning has the potential to convert teaching and learning by remodeling the traditional classroom instructional approaches, personalizing instruction and improving the quality of learning
They are taught how to make presentations and have verbal discussions all of which are hard to reproduce online. “Even the best technology is no good substitute for in-person interaction, giving someone your attention, looking them in the eyes, speaking to them instead of away, learning how to take turns, communication, and sharing ideas and cooperating—all these things are difficult to 'simulate ' online, and it is still, at best, just a 'simulation.”(Abraha 3). Some things are just better understood face to face, were improvement and corrections can be made rather than online. The ineffectiveness of online education is because lack of the peer and teacher aspect. But there isn’t one right way of comprehension. It depends if the student has the ability to grasp the …show more content…
With the technology today access to information over the World Wide Web is unlimited. However, “what is written over the Internet is not necessarily what was meant by the author"(Abraha 3). Not everything online is credible and there is truly no one way to find out if the source is was intendent for one purpose, but is manipulated for another. What is written online could have been taken out of context from a larger basis and interpreted differently. On the other hand, online learning has the potential to convert teaching and learning by remodeling the traditional classroom instructional approaches, personalizing instruction and improving the quality of learning