Rethinking Chapter 5

In the different phases of schooling mentioned in this chapter I really believe that homeschooling has the ability to grow to be more resourceful and educational than brick and mortar schools with technology changes.  With all these technological improvements, and schools inability to adjust due to budget restraints we see many opportunities for school age children to flourish in programs that would not be considered typical schooling.  Learning Centers and homeschooling really have an opportunity to grow and be more popular with more individualized teaching that can be available with resources out to be used.  Many students who struggle find Learning Centers to be a help through thinking out of the box a bit when it comes to content and ways of instruction by using technologies some classrooms fail to use.  One of the topics brought up in the chapter was Distance education.  I am one of the many people that has used it and really liked how it worked out.  With D2L at UW-Marathon County I was able to take my EDUC 351 & 381 equivalents from an Ed-Psych professor in UW-Marinette County.  All of our course handouts were sent through D2L while our lectures were done through video and screencasting in a live setting.  It was an awesome experience because the handouts were available online all semester and a lot of our lecture questions were asked and answered from not only my campus, but with other campuses on the live network in our lecture.  One big thing I take out of this chapter is that I should be open to new technologies for my classroom and to be more opened to being individualized more in my teaching and if I can't be, point my students to places they can get that kind of education.