because such personal work demands wisdom and tact . These weak administrators use bureaucracy to compensate for their own inadequacy ; they remain within the comfortable confines of their office desk , and reach into classrooms with the long arm of overly-detailed curricular demands . Capable administrators , by contrast , understand that teaching is a personal activity , so they will step into messy |
intelligent , articulate scholars on audio or video , and deliver the audio or video to a student ’ s computer . This has some value ; even Yogi Berra acknowledged that you can observe a lot by watching . Student-spectators can learn from watching videos about history , literature , science , mathematics , and a host of other subject areas — especially videos featuring great teachers . Some enterprising folks group many such |
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classrooms and mentor the novice teachers they oversee . But wherever we find teachers who are skilled in their craft , and where |
Capable administrators , by contrast , understand that teaching is a personal activity , so they will step into messy classrooms and mentor the novice teachers they oversee . |
videos into a series and refer to the resulting package as “ a course .” Such videos ( and video courses ) supply one key benefit that comes from communication technology : they capture |
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they are allowed the freedom to practice it , physical classroom spaces are proven venues for excellent education . How does online education measure up to physical classrooms ? |
faraway scholars and place their voices and images conveniently onto the computer screen in front of you . But these videos also reveal the limitations of video recordings . Any teacher whose |
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Educating vs . Spectating
Some purveyors of online education offer their students a spectator experience , somewhat like the experience of watching televised baseball . They capture the voices of
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not engage sympathetically with students who view the video . The teacher ’ s actions are recorded for playback on screen and speakers , and thus can never adjust for the studentviewer . The teacher ’ s performance |
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