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Megan Bowen is an Ashworth High School English Instructor. You can read some of Megan’s blog posts by clicking here and scrolling to the bottom of the page. As someone who is always thinking of new and dynamic ways to engage her students, it’s no surprise that Megan has begun hosting classroom discussions on the Ashworth Student Forum. As an English major myself, I’ve personally enjoyed participating in these interactive discussions and have been very impressed by the insightul perspectives students have offered on their latest reading assignments.
If you’re an Ashworth High School student or a parent of such a student, we encourage you to participate in one of Megan’s classroom discussions. Our new student forum provides a terrific environment for students, parents, and faculty to interact—so be sure to join our Forum community today if you haven’t already.
The following video is lo-fi from a production perspective, but hi-fi from a content perspective, in that the message conveyed is direct, clear, and accessible to an audience of any age. Whether you’re a student or parent from a home school background, we encourage you to consider how you relate to the type of learning lifestyle that informs this video’s central message. Click on the image above to watch. We look forward to hearing your perspectives.
Ashworth High School provides alternative education options to Georgia high school students who have been affected by Clayton County’s regional accreditation controversy.
Ashworth High School is regionally accredited by the SACS, and is also accredited by CITA and DETC.
The following article once again reinforces the importance of Web 2.0 technologies in a progressive educational environment, a message that we have been committed to carrying to our Ashworth University students through our own 2.0 applications such as MySpace, Facebook, Ashworth University Blog, and even our preliminary experiments in Second Life’s virtual world. It’s nice to see the more “mainstream” educational community is finally beginning to recognize that today’s education is web-based, interactive, and network driven. Here at Ashworth, we’re committed to these principles and encourage our students and their families to become as engaged as possible in the Web 2.0 revolution: where everyone is empowered to create, learn, and connect on their own terms.
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George Siemens is acknowledged as being one of the most innovative minds in the education field. Through his groundbreaking analyses of how educators can use technology to their advantage rather than fearing its’ radical capabilities, Siemens has had a major impact on how teachers, students, and just about anyone involved in the education field perceives how our traditional learning models must evolve in order to effectively provide the knowledge and skills most vital in tomorrow’s “connected” world. In the following slideshow presentation, Siemens outlines some of his main thoughts on what tomorrow may look like if we begin taking the necessary steps to reform our educational system today. This presentation is a solid introduction to George’s theories. We’d like to thank him for being an Ashworth University contributing blogger and would like to encourage everyone to check out his amazing elearnspace Blog. Thanks George!
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With the public school system failing, one wonders whether the federally mandated emphasis on pass/fail standardized testing (reactive) rather than ian investment in the comprehensive reform of our educational models (proactive) is anything more than a political “red herring.” The following video features an influential educator by the name of Ken Robinson. Mr. Robinson eloquently discusses the creativity crisis that our schools are suffering from and proposes possible alternatives to policies that undermine student creativity rather than provide an environment conducive to its’ development. At Ashworth University High School, we take great pride in our ability to customize our program studies to meet the diverse learning styles of our students. We’d love to hear from our home school parents out there. Please share your perspectives in the comments section of this post. We’ll talk again soon.
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In the spirit of this blog’s commitment to providing home school parents with the most comprehensive information on today’s social media/educational technologies, we’d like to bring your attention to another series of instructional yet entertaining series of videos. Principally developed to train librarians on the web’s most popular 2.0 resources, the “Learn More” video series serves as an excellent primer for people new to these resources, but who are eager to learn. Click here to check out these great videos for yourself. As you begin gaining knowledge and experience working with them, drop in for a few minutes to share your comments with our home school community.
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