A Year’s Work in Three Weeks

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014

Glenn Reynolds’ daughter did almost all of her high school online:

We found that pretty satisfactory because that way we didn’t have to do the homeschooling. She was able to do it selectively. As an example of the kind flexibility that technology brings, her way to do a class was to spend three weeks nonstop on a class. She finished a year’s worth of work in one class in three weeks of intensive effort instead of little dribs and drabs along the year the way they do in public school. And that’s something you couldn’t do without a technological platform that lets you move at your own pace.

That’s not something you can do in most schools, but I’m not so sure that it’s something you couldn’t do without a technological platform that lets you move at your own pace.

Comments

  1. Felix says:

    Summer quarter, ’72, I did university classes in exactly this way. Had to get teacher OK to take finals early. One teacher even gave me extra books to go over. A linguistics class was filled with K-12-teacher-punching-tickets and me, so the class teacher was *very* sympathetic to my methods, what with the blood pouring from his ears and all.

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