Bricks and Mortar The Making of a Real Education at the Stanford Online High School |
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| Author:
| Scarborough, Jeffrey
Ravaglia, Raymond |
| ISBN: | 978-1-57586-739-7 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2014 |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications/Center for the Study of Language & Information
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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How a group of true believers built the best high school in the world without laying a single brick. In this book, Scarborough and Ravaglia discuss the motivation, creation, and evolution of the Stanford Online High School during its initial seven years. In what some have described as the school’s "use of twenty-first century technologies to deliver a twelfth century education”, the SOHS has redefined what is possible in an online setting drawing on that...
More Description How a group of true believers built the best high school in the world without laying a single brick.
In this book, Scarborough and Ravaglia discuss the motivation, creation, and evolution of the Stanford Online High School during its initial seven years. In what some have described as the school’s "use of twenty-first century technologies to deliver a twelfth century education”, the SOHS has redefined what is possible in an online setting drawing on that format to set a modern standard for rigorous high-school education. While such phrases at first seem to belie the essence of the SOHS, Scarborough and Ravaglia offer the story of the school in support of the strongly contrarian position that dynamic use of technology in education is not exclusive of the best traditional methodologies.