Well, this week my blog is on virtual classrooms. Since I'm actually taking 4 virtual classes currently and I have taken one in the past, I know a lot about them. One thing I didn't know, that I learned through reading the article "Africa's First Virtual Classroom" is that they are now setting up virtual classrooms in Africa and probably other places as well. Also, the virtual classroom they described in the article seemed to be a bit more high tech and advanced than the online classes you can take in high school and college.
It is so great that they are setting up classrooms like this for children in Africa, experiences like that can probably do much for any student no matter the location. And what is great to learn is that a major phone company, Motorola, is helping all of this happen! I mean, I know you hear every day that major companies are helping do things that are needed to be done or whatever but I don't really think you can believe much of that. But Motorola actually is helping the communication for these virtual classrooms.
I think, and possibly if more major companies were to get involved it could happen, that they should set up virtual classrooms everywhere for every country's school children so that they can experience learning like this. Imagine what all this could lead to!
2 comments:
I think that everyone at FGCU knows what a virtual class is..haha..most of us are in them. Awesome! I think that it's great that kids in less fortunate countries are getting education. It's great that motorola is helping to. Great article!
I, like you, also talked about how these virtual classrooms can really help not only people in rural America but also in countries around the world that aren't as lucky as we are. Even though I prefer the old fashion way, where we go to class, over virtual I think it is important to understand the possibilities with both.
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