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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Online Learning: Using the net to learn - AARON BESWICK, Northern Pen
The Northern Peninsula's many rural schools are turning to technology to keep their students abreast with advanced subjects. Few students mean small teaching staffs trying to handle a wide variety of subjects, many of which, such as physics and chemistry, require specialized knowledge. Level three students at Conche's Sacred Heart All Grade were logging onto the Centre for Distance Learning Innovation (CDLI) last Tuesday, as they do every day. "Now raise your hands if you have any questions," came Cindy Lander's voice across the information superhighway from Goose Bay. A strange statement to older generations who would wonder how a teacher in Goose Bay would see a raised hand. But the Sacred Heart students are savvy - in the online world they hit a hand on their screen with their mouse to ask a question.
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