Why? Because things have changed. Technology, the school systems, the students and the companies that hire them have all changed. Lets start with the students...
I'm talking about the youth of today and also the work force in today's competitive companies. Online education is now mainstream with teachers now choosing between careers in schools, tutoring, or teaching online.Online teaching is hot! Our people are now, as Marc Prensky calls them, "Digital Natives" with skills and a mindset suited to todays technical realities. Learning styles have evolved as have our diagnostic tools and categories of learnig styles and dysfunctions. The skills are different too with keyboarding & web researching moving into mainstream skills. And while public schools still dominate the educational system, homeschooling and virtual schools are the two hottest growth areas in education. They're cost effective and they work!
How different is todays technology- Well, remember that just ten years ago, twenty volume sets of encyclopedias were being sold as a primary information resource. How quaint it seems today.
The amazing internet has started its information revolution and has totally changed the nature of information access and retrieval. And today's companies and schools are different. Entire layers of middle managers are now gone from America 's corporations.
Today, entry level employees receive, and respond, to emails and calls directly from company executives, a level and type of communication that would have been infeasible and unthinkable, just a decade or so ago. Telecommuting has gone from fringe to mainstream. Email, once exotic and unreliable, is increasingly the main internal form of communication. Video conferencing too is shifting into the mainstream. Todays-Learners.com reports on the successful paradigms for today's learners.
I'm talking about the youth of today and also the work force in today's competitive companies. Online education is now mainstream with teachers now choosing between careers in schools, tutoring, or teaching online.Online teaching is hot! Our people are now, as Marc Prensky calls them, "Digital Natives" with skills and a mindset suited to todays technical realities. Learning styles have evolved as have our diagnostic tools and categories of learnig styles and dysfunctions. The skills are different too with keyboarding & web researching moving into mainstream skills. And while public schools still dominate the educational system, homeschooling and virtual schools are the two hottest growth areas in education. They're cost effective and they work!
How different is todays technology- Well, remember that just ten years ago, twenty volume sets of encyclopedias were being sold as a primary information resource. How quaint it seems today.
The amazing internet has started its information revolution and has totally changed the nature of information access and retrieval. And today's companies and schools are different. Entire layers of middle managers are now gone from America 's corporations.
Today, entry level employees receive, and respond, to emails and calls directly from company executives, a level and type of communication that would have been infeasible and unthinkable, just a decade or so ago. Telecommuting has gone from fringe to mainstream. Email, once exotic and unreliable, is increasingly the main internal form of communication. Video conferencing too is shifting into the mainstream. Todays-Learners.com reports on the successful paradigms for today's learners.
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