Monday, November 23, 2009
Blog 7
Provost Academy......the first online school I saw in person. The presentatin was good. Usually people from businesses are kind of dull when presenting. It was nice to know that there are over 1500 students enrolled in this school. The availability of the teachers is amazing. Being able to access work anytime and anywhere would have been great back when I was in high school. I still feel that you have to be focused and have discipline to actually complete all of your work. I also think that parents should be very involved in a students education which one of the best things I saw about the online school. Parents get a login name and password to monitor there kids progress. Now parents have no excuse to not knowing what their kids are doing.
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I found the presentation to be very interesting and informative. It definitely changed my outlook on online high schools. I was initially skeptical that an online high school could produce a well rounded person. After seeing how much the director cares for the well being of his students, it made me miss my high school days. As I said in my blog seven post, if I could go back do high school all over again, I would definitely like to try out Provost Academy for at least a year. Parents will have to keep up the pressure on their children. Students can literally slack off in the comfort of their own homes now. With the accelerated courses, I think students can focus on classes on interest to them. This would help when they prepare for college instead changing majors two or three times to find something of real interest to them.
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