Column: Test for online education lies in how best to meet students’ diverse needs
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This unique moment in human history offers an instructive lesson for tracking an emerging trend in K-12 education.
“This is the only time in world history when the digital immigrants are teaching the digital natives,” said Dr. David Dresslar, executive director of the Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning at the University of Indianapolis.
Dresslar notes that this no longer will be true 10 years from now when today’s students are tomorrow’s teachers. At the moment, however, most teachers and most parents of schoolchildren did not grow up with the technology that many students take for granted.
The Indiana Department of Education reports that 79 percent of the state’s school districts provide some form of online coursework, with 62 percent utilizing technology to help struggling students with credit recovery and 35 percent offering required courses online.
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