K-12 Online Classrooms

Listening to Beth Day talk about online classrooms for K-12 was interesting because of the things that an online classroom can do. This is a great way to use technology for the classroom because of the fact that these classes are on the computer. There are great benefits that she mentioned like organization, knowing the students better, and schedule flexibility. However, there were some disadvantages to online classrooms that she mentioned like classroom management and not being able to interact with the students face to face. I can relate to these advantages and disadvantages to online classes because I have taken some online classes for Cedarville. Some of the advantages for college online classes are that the classes are easier and I can work on homework from those classes at any time, but I cannot interact with my professor if I need help face to face and some professors are hard to reach. So I can see why online classrooms can and/or cannot work. But, it does seem like many classes will eventually be all online. Beth Day did answer this in her lecture and said that it may happen, but not in the near future. Overall, her lecture was an interesting one to listen to and I feel that she did a great job.