Brainstorming

Use this space to document ideas that can be evaluated for usefulness at a later time.


 * Opportunities:**


 * To create a hybrid learning model within which students can design a more individualized educational experience.
 * To give students access to wider range of experiences so that they begin to match their interests to meaningful work at an early stage in their educational process.


 * Constraints:**


 * Research in Human Development suggests that young children derive no benefit from interaction with computers (or other video media).
 * Legal and fiscal responsibilities for shared resources would have to be worked out with vendors and each school.


 * Ideas and other Language**:


 * As presently configured, our schools produce a failure rate (30% not graduating high school) that would be intolerable if it were found in any other field.
 * Research tell us that parents who are themselves readers raise children who read. Following this analogy, parents who know how to learn in a variety of different modalities (including f2f, online, individually) should raise children who also have this skill.
 * The SPSCC Library could present college resources in a prospective students seminar for grades 9-10. We could do a version of our regular "new students seminar" for 11-12.
 * There may be an opportunity to share the costs as well as access to some of the same databases.
 * Perhaps SPSCC's counselors could offer student's some "choosing a major" assistance/advice, and/or our career people could offer career guidance workshops.
 * SPSCC's early childhood education department could help/collaborate in parent education. Maybe students could participate in a parent education helpline...