Monday, November 5, 2012

Special Blog Post Assignment

A World Where Grades Will Be Left Behind



This article mainly provided our future instruction styles with technology and networking with the benefits. This article introduced education system by Sebastian Thrun, a Google vice president and Stanford research professor. He talked about his vision of future education. He said he could never teach in a traditional Stanford classroom. He introduced “Udacity” in which students can get free online courses taught by teachers in the world. Now, it grows that schools use “flip” system in which the students study through videos and complete their homework in their house by class. Additionally, Charter schools have made a curriculum with the use of game-playing learning system. Thrun talked about advantages of technology in education. The first thing is students can take more challenging exercises and quizzes to help students acquire a skill and/or a concept. The second thing is online instruction may be free, but it takes little costs for certification and exams. The third thing is movies can encourage students learn and give fun of learning for them with low costs. Additionally, the movies can be accessed by people worldwide with internet.



I think his future education vision may be coming soon in our future and I will face it as I will be a teacher. Actually, the online courses can give students lectures taught by great teachers in the world and help them learn with fun, and pay attention to lectures with visual effects. I like “Flip” system because it gives students time to prepare for class, figure out what they will learn in class before class day, and ask teachers and classmates questions about lessons. It helps them do work with own speed. However, I think we should teach them on online courses and in classroom because face- to-face teaching is important to master skills and understand what they learn because some students at low level need specific, simple, and sophisticated explanations taught by classroom teachers.




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http://blogs.dw.de/educationblog/files/Online-lecture-on-Model-Thinking.jpg

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