Online Learning: The Story Continues--PART SIX

So getting back to my story....Maybe I was able to do this because I had just taken the first most courageous and bold step of my life. I had quit my job and I was taking charge of my life. Now I was taking charge of my own learning. Looking back on it now I see the connection between the step I took about quitting my job and the new way I was approaching learning. I ask myself now, how can we, as educators, help all students get to this point. Tell me it is not true that someone must go for years wandering in the desert to finally figure this out. Surely we can lead students to this place much sooner or can we? I suddenly realized that perhaps with online learning and a new paradigm for learning we could help our students get to this place of personal learning empowerment much sooner than I and many others of my generation had been able. Suddenly, I had a glimmer of hope and I then I remembered the idealism I had when I started my teacher training at the University of Missouri-Columbia way back in 1970. My idealism was returning. I had hope for a better tomorrow. But, I am getting ahead of myself. What about today? See PART SEVEN!