Face-to-Face
Education
I agree
with Ralph Maltese in that it is imperative for students to have
face-to-face interaction with not only their teachers, but their peers as well.
Group work is essential for student learning as it allows for other student
opinions to be included into that student’s assignments. Essentially, students
will be able to learn from their peers, as their fellow peers demonstrate and
contribute their own ideas and opinions not previously thought of by that
specific single student; conflicting interests allows for beneficial student
learning. In addition, I believe that
students need to be interacting with peers of their age group or else they will
not be able to develop socially. Social skills are crucial throughout every
points of one’s life, and being inadequate would only harm one as they entered
the workforce. As Maltese stated in his writing, “Studies
on adolescent thinking reveal that students have not yet developed the facility
to read irony or sarcasm.”
Numerous times in the past I have
encountered bad situations that were derived from emails from myself to my
professors. The professor would not adequately respond to my question, leaving
me on ‘another page’ and ultimately I performed poorly on the assignment or the
exam. In addition, in the past I have been enrolled in courses such as Current
World Problems or college level Geology in which I started the class with a bad
mindset of not wanting to attend the class because I originally thought it
would be boring, or a ‘waste of my time’. However, it did not take long for the
teacher to inspire me by showing me the essentials of the course and how it
related to present day life – this was something that had me hooked in the
class which allowed me to excel.
I feel that there is a strong
possibility that students would cheat on their online examinations or, they
would find all of the answers on the Internet without even having to read the
required articles. Furthermore, it would not necessarily be plausible for a student
to complete a science (i.e. chemistry) or a physical education course online.
In sum, if online courses became a state requirement, it would truly depend on
the parents to encourage their student to complete the coursework without
cutting any corners.
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