Archive for August, 2006

Is Being A Digital Native A Good Thing?

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

Since we started this Blog Track, I’ve written a fair amount about digital natives (see More On Digital Natives) for the most recent entry.  Most of what I have written about has focused upon whether or not there is such a thing as digital natives.  This past week I’ve read some entries posted by Ian [...]

Struggling with Virtual Schooling Issues

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

A colleague of mine, Derek Wenmoth, has posted an entry to his blog (see Derek’s Blog) which I think is particularly interesting.  The entry, Tackling online learning in our secondary schools, talks about some thngs going on down in New Zealand in K-12 online learning and then proceeds to ask a long series of questions [...]

July Non-Research Entries

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

Here are the non-research entries from my Virtual High School Meanderings blog for the month of July.

Virtual Schooling in the News
What’s Going On In Arkansas
Are There Virtual Schooling Issues in Wisconsin?
Virtual Schooling in the News
Virtual Schooling in the News
Starting A Virtual School
What Characteristics Are Needed?
Virtual Schooling in the News
Who Benefits From Virtual Schooling?
Where Does One [...]

Virtual Schooling Evaluations

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

One of the more commons ways that research has been conducted on virtual schooling has been through the process of conducting evaluations.  In May and June I posted a series that outlined the research studies that I have conducted with virtual schools, specifically the Centre for Distance Learning and Innovation.  In that discussion I failed to [...]