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As more students turn to Oregon virtual charter schools, there's a brewing conflict between educators and parents in the K-12 community.
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Those who are inexperienced with online learning often guess it means only one thing: a student sits alone at a computer interacting with a digitized textbook at his own rate, taking online quizzes and emailing assignments or questions to a course facilitator.This is primarily what current virtual schools are offering, but it's only one model of online learningProfessional education associations such as the International Association for K-12 Online Learning and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills have developed a robust framework for blended and online learning to address the new educational needs that have emerged recently because of the electronic revolution. The central role for online learning is to leverage the richest instructional practices that educators have been using on the ground in order to prepare students with new digital literacies.
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Denise Herrenbruck
International Association for K-12 Online Learning and the Partnership
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
About Denise Herrenbruck
Denise Herrenbruck of Portland is an online college instructor in the teacher license programs at UCLA Extension and the University of San Diego. She has taught online students in China, Africa, Australia, Mexico and Oregon.Source: The Oregonian
