Archive for July, 2006

More On Digital Natives

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Continuing on this theme of digital natives (see What Are Virtual Schools Doing For Digital Natives? for the most recent post), let’s get back to this issue of whether or not they exist and how they are defined.  When I look around the blogsphere I see entries like:

Being Digital with Negroponte from Bethany’s Education Blog
Growing Up [...]

What Are Virtual Schools Doing For Digital Natives?

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

Okay, first of all I apologize that it has been two weeks since my last post (i.e., June Non-Research Entries) – it won’t happen again.
This evening I was checking my e-mail and on daily Yahoo! alert for cyber school alerted me to a news item that I found interesting.
Teaching And Learning Online: Meeting Learners In Their [...]

June Non-Research Entries

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

With the conclusion of my own personal research series, here are the non-research entries from my Virtual High School Meanderings blog for the month of June.
Virtual Schooling in the News
Creating Communities of Learners
Recorded Virtual Schooling Sessions
Simple Virtual Schooling Questions
Virtual Schooling in the News
Why Do People Take Virtual School Courses
Another Virtual School Question
Virtual Schooling in the [...]

Achievement Differences Between Students in Traditional and Virtual Courses

Sunday, July 2nd, 2006

This study was actually a follow-up to a study that I had conducted a couple of years ago that only considered students in the Advanced Placement program in Newfoundland and Labrador.  This particular study is also being used as a foundation for my dissertation study, as my dissertation is looking at what online learning looks [...]