Future

Online Learning Environment
The Future of Education
Our Ideal Learning Environment As our world becomes a global village rather than isolated regions, we envision a school that will allow us to bring up-to-the-minute information directly to the classroom opening a window to the outside-world. We envision:

students that can access, analyze, and synthesize information in pursuit of solutions to real-life problems.
students that work cooperatively with others and are receptive to new ideas.
students that value education and maintain excellent attendance and disciplinary records.
students that study wherever needed information is to be found.
students and teachers provided with computer technology that can be readily transported anywhere.
teachers that guide and facilitate learning.
teachers that team with their colleagues in order to fully utilize talents.
teachers that target learning experiences at the varied learning modalities of all students.
teachers that design cross-curricular learning experiences.
educators that are free to experiment with ideas and technologies.
educators that are provided with sufficient time and monetary resources to plan, visit model programs, attend conferences, and workshops to gain the insight needed to continue revitalization of the educational process at the classroom level.
educators that have unlimited access to colleagues by phone, electronic mail, voice mail, etc.
parents that are consistently involved in school activities and in the education of their child.
classrooms that provide on-line research opportunities to students and teachers including telecommunications, encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc.
classrooms equipped with a television monitor, telephone, and wiring for computers that allows unlimited access to the outside world.
classrooms equipped with individual and small group instructional capabilities including computer clusters.
classrooms equipped with high quality large group instructional capabilities.
classrooms that are designed to accommodate the needs of the future including carpeting, electrical power, phone lines, air conditioning and windows.
classrooms that facilitate multi-media learning activities.
schools that provide opportunities for community access during the day, evening, and weekends.
schools that are open year-round and utilize a flexible scheduling concept.

The preceeding list complements of HOBART Schools