Archive for May, 2006

May Non-Research Entries

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

The non-research entries from my Virtual High School Meanderings blog for the month of May.

Virtual Schooling in News
Virtual Schooling “Not Just” for Homeschoolers
Virtual Schooling in the News
Being Successful
Virtual Schooling in the News
It Was Only A Matter Of Time
Who Are Virtual Schools Most Needed For?
Virtual Schooling in the News
Who Are We Trying To Serve?

Until next month…
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My Research In Virtual Schooling – Context

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

Given that one of the aspects of this Blogtrack is that it should be research based, that is a look at the research in online learning from each of our individual perspectives, I thought I should begin a series of entries over the next few weeks about some of the research that I have done [...]

Research on Digital Natives

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

Okay, so last week I asked the question Do Digital Natives Exist?  I see that my colleague in this Blogtrack, Rick West, has taken up the challenge and tried to answer that question – see Digital Natives: Response to Michael.
Rick takes an interesting perspective on this one, as he indicates up front that he is on the [...]

Do Digital Natives Exist?

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Okay, forget about the actual title used – generation Z, neomillennials, digital natives, the net generation, whatever – do they exist?  By this question I am wondering if there is anything fundamentally different about children today that can’t be explained by simple generational issues (i.e. students in my generation were different than students in my [...]

Virtual Schooling Questions

Monday, May 8th, 2006

One of my colleagues in this BlogTrack, Ernise Singleton – Higher Education, posted as one of her initial entries a list of questions that she was interested in or initially drew her to specific area of online learning research (see What is online teaching?).  Thinking it a great idea, I thought that I would try [...]

Current Research Literature Base

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

Okay, in the last entry I posted a list of links to entries that may or may not discuss the literature on virtual schooling that can be found at my other blog, Virtual High School Meanderings (see Non-Research Virtual School Entries).  That entry got me thinking back to another enty that I made at Virtual [...]