ACCESS

ACCESS (Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Statewide) is a fascinating program that takes advantage of all the internet has to offer. It combines traditional teaching with e-teaching, or even goes completely virtual by having a teacher beamed in from another part of the state in order to teach a class, without having to drive the whole way. It could also allow impoverished schools to gain access to AP programs, and electives that the school could not normally afford (such as a foreign language program or even higher sciences/maths).

This program also takes allows students to take more initiative in their education. The example was given of lab work in the sciences. By doing an electronic lab manual, students can have a sense of owning their project, not just that it was some busy work that they had to do. It also could (in a situation where both online components as well as a live teacher were available) allow for the teacher to have more one-on-one time with students having trouble in their specific disciplines.

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