As technology continues to develop and progress, many feel that the benefits of online resources can best be harnessed within classrooms and education; as a result, many feel that education should take a step into the "cyber-world", with physical classrooms being swapped out with virtual, internet classrooms. However, these "cyber-revolutionaries" fail to recognize the impact the intimacy and degree of customization that traditional physical schooling offers: aspects such as social interaction, student/teacher tutoring, and the ability to focus on a particularly difficult subject area are lost in the transition to an online classroom. Ultimately, internet classrooms are inferior to more traditional physical classrooms because they deprive
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When he arrives at school, he sits down with his fellow peers outside the classroom, and asks if they would be willing to quiz him for the big exam in period 4; while he may not know exactly what the " Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium equation" is, or what a "dissolution equilibrium constant" is used for, but he knows that his friends can clarify and help. In any case, he figures that if worst comes to worst, he can stay after class for individual instruction from his teacher for clarification and help. While the description of our student 's average Tuesday morning may seem somewhat mundane, it actually demonstrates exactly what is so lacking in online education: social interaction. When a student is restricted to a keyboard and a monitor, …show more content…
If you were to look back in your own educational history, you would surely recall that at least at one point in your schooling past, you were told to, "Always ask questions," or some equivalent thereof. Aside from sounding like the ramblings of a mental asylum patient, this statement is the dominant motif for all of education, and even knowledge itself (odd how close the two overlap, isn 't it?). Without the curiosity of man driving him to find the answers to his questions, mankind may never have understood the world around using science, communicated using language, predicted using mathematics, or learned from his mistakes using history. Yet, the implementation of an online classroom would quash a student 's curiosity, and consequently, his understanding of the subject material. Without a teacher to answer the seemingly trivial questions a student might ask, "Why is the sky blue?", "Why does using a metaphor matter?", "When would we use matrix multiplication in real life?", "Why does electricity actually flow?", a student will lack the in depth understand of the material being taught and, in a worst case scenario, lack any sort of understanding. If a student is taking a course in physics, an online course may be great for teaching a
When he arrives at school, he sits down with his fellow peers outside the classroom, and asks if they would be willing to quiz him for the big exam in period 4; while he may not know exactly what the " Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium equation" is, or what a "dissolution equilibrium constant" is used for, but he knows that his friends can clarify and help. In any case, he figures that if worst comes to worst, he can stay after class for individual instruction from his teacher for clarification and help. While the description of our student 's average Tuesday morning may seem somewhat mundane, it actually demonstrates exactly what is so lacking in online education: social interaction. When a student is restricted to a keyboard and a monitor, …show more content…
If you were to look back in your own educational history, you would surely recall that at least at one point in your schooling past, you were told to, "Always ask questions," or some equivalent thereof. Aside from sounding like the ramblings of a mental asylum patient, this statement is the dominant motif for all of education, and even knowledge itself (odd how close the two overlap, isn 't it?). Without the curiosity of man driving him to find the answers to his questions, mankind may never have understood the world around using science, communicated using language, predicted using mathematics, or learned from his mistakes using history. Yet, the implementation of an online classroom would quash a student 's curiosity, and consequently, his understanding of the subject material. Without a teacher to answer the seemingly trivial questions a student might ask, "Why is the sky blue?", "Why does using a metaphor matter?", "When would we use matrix multiplication in real life?", "Why does electricity actually flow?", a student will lack the in depth understand of the material being taught and, in a worst case scenario, lack any sort of understanding. If a student is taking a course in physics, an online course may be great for teaching a