The use of technology in education has improved the education system, and as technology advances so have the idea of virtual schooling. Virtual schooling has the potential to change traditional education. A big question is if virtual education is ready to be carried out as a major form of education today. What you will find is that no, the road to virtual schooling is not smoothly paved.
In Crossman’s “From the Three R’s to the Four C’s” he repeatedly states that reading and writing are becoming obsolete. In the past, we relied on reading and writing to store and retrieve information this way of learning is being replaced by “ITs driven by voice, video, and body movement/gestures/touch rather than the written word. (Crossman 253) He goes on to mention the reasons why this is happening. Some of his reasons include that humans are hardwired to access information and communicating by using all of our senses, it is natural while reading and writing must be taught. (Crossman 253) Crossman also examines three potential opportunities for the K-12 education. Those include: allowing many people who are illiterate to have equal access to the world’s information, voice recognition technology allows us to speak to others of different languages without the language barrier, and also allowing people with disabilities access to all information. In Dillon and Tucker’s article “Lessons for …show more content…
They state that with a lack of quality and equality in the curriculum and instruction it will not lead educational reform. (Dillon Tucker
In Crossman’s “From the Three R’s to the Four C’s” he repeatedly states that reading and writing are becoming obsolete. In the past, we relied on reading and writing to store and retrieve information this way of learning is being replaced by “ITs driven by voice, video, and body movement/gestures/touch rather than the written word. (Crossman 253) He goes on to mention the reasons why this is happening. Some of his reasons include that humans are hardwired to access information and communicating by using all of our senses, it is natural while reading and writing must be taught. (Crossman 253) Crossman also examines three potential opportunities for the K-12 education. Those include: allowing many people who are illiterate to have equal access to the world’s information, voice recognition technology allows us to speak to others of different languages without the language barrier, and also allowing people with disabilities access to all information. In Dillon and Tucker’s article “Lessons for …show more content…
They state that with a lack of quality and equality in the curriculum and instruction it will not lead educational reform. (Dillon Tucker