The other day when I was checking my email, an ad at the top of my Gmail account said "Tired of mediocre K-12 education?" and next to it there was a link for k12.com. I clicked on the link (because I couldn't believe that this ad said this!) and it took me to a website that is an online public or private school for students in grades K-12. Parents can sign their kids up, and can pay a fee, for their students to receive schooling that has an "interactive curriculum" and "interactive online and offline hands-on learning." Parents have the choice to select what they want their students to learn, and when they want them to learn it. I really couldn't believe that this existed!
But this made me wonder...with the growing dependency on technology that we all have, will this be a threat to our jobs some years down the road? I know that this could be another way that parents could homeschool students, but with the technology age growing, it makes me wonder if more "schools" like this will appear and if they will be a threat. What do you think?
I have heard of this "interactive curriculum" you are talking about and how the schooling is completely online. I think it is a little scary for those of us graduating soon and looking for jobs in the future but I believe it would be a very long time before something like this came into a greater effect across the country. Overall I do not believe this online schooling would ever completely take over. Social interaction is a large part of school in my opinion and you simply cannot get that through sitting in front of a computer screen.
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