Ask Me What I Think About Online Classes

Link to August 8 New York Times article, "As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks are History".

Excerpt: “In five years, I think the majority of students will be using digital textbooks,” said William M. Habermehl, superintendent of the 500,000-student Orange County schools. “They can be better than traditional textbooks.”

Schools that do not make the switch, Mr. Habermehl said, could lose their constituency.

“We’re still in a brick-and-mortar, 30-students-to-1-teacher paradigm,” Mr. Habermehl said, “but we need to get out of that framework to having 200 or 300 kids taking courses online, at night, 24/7, whenever they want.”

"Whenever they want." Does this also apply to students' future work schedules?

Teachers teach whenever they want.

Administrators administrate whenever they want.

Parents parent whenever they want.

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