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Alexander Spring: Online Learning: The Ruin Of Education
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I remember my seventh grade science teacher. I remember the jokes she would make and the experiences she would share. Everyone has these memories of their teachers. Yet, soon this will be no more. Soon, kids will be saying that the name of their science teacher was Mac or PC, and the only experience that they will remember is sitting in a barren computer lab. Education as we know it is being reformed, and for the worse. More and more schools are shuffling kids into cold computer labs, and knowledge is being halted at the door.
I had the horrific opportunity to experience online learning for a few weeks when, after my Advanced Placement biology teacher took a leave of absence, my principal decided that online learning would be the best alternative to hiring a new teacher right away. Just as fast as I was shoved into a computer lab, I realized the biggest issue with online education: cheating. We all know that many people cheat throughout their academic education. However, online education provides a catalyst for cheating. Spanish class? Use a translator. Math class? Plug the problem into Wolfram Alpha. Biology? Go to Yahoo Answers. Not only are students cheating themselves, they are cheating the system. Students who are not enrolled in these classes may have lower grades because they are honest. Is that fair? The online interface just provides you with a digital copy of a textbook and then quiz after quiz, test after test. With unlimited time to take these quizzes and tests, all one has to do is copy and paste the questions into Google -- and your answer awaits you. No one bothers to read the material and absorb information. Why would they, when the correct answer is just a click away?
Online education turns a center for learning into a diploma factory.
Advocates for online education may say that the cost of forcing kids into a computer lab is much cheaper than paying for a teacher, paper, textbooks, etc. But wait. This sounds a lot like what Greg Smith recently said in his New York Times Op-Ed "Why I'm Leaving Goldman Sachs."
"I attend derivatives sales meetings where not one single minute is spent asking questions about how we can help clients. It's purely about how we can make the most possible money off of them," Smith said.
It's a shame that this exact quote applies not only to millionaire clients but curious, innocent kids in schools. Not a single minute is spent asking questions about how we can better educate. It is purely about how we can save the most possible money. Education is being held hostage to greedy principals and chancellors. These people only care that on a transcript it says that a student received an education. They don't care one iota about the quality or medium of that education.
It holds true that online education provides an alternative opportunity to kids who are homebound or cannot access education due to location. Other students may not have adequate teachers, sufficient learning materials or limited course offerings. However, rather than putting these pupils into a computer lab, why can't we take the money being spent on online education and put it towards new materials, new teachers and better training?
The social implications of online learning are also detrimental. Personal experiences with the topic to help the student better understand the materials are not shared. There is no one a student can ask a question relating to the subject or just an interesting tangent. Part of growing up is questioning and being curious. Online education limits that childish curiosity, Interacting with your teacher also teaches you social queues and how to respect adults. When you are sitting in a cold computer lab, what social interaction are you getting?
Online education also has fewer deadlines or none at all. Students are often given the entire term to complete all the material. This means that someone can do no work for months but then complete all of the assessments the week before the due date. How is this teaching kids proper time management? This does not teach kids how to be responsible and how to efficiently complete their work.
There is no thought being put into quality education anymore. Any school that uses online learning systems should not be called a school. Online education is growing at an exponential rate. If this continues, not only will our children be not as intelligent, they will not have learned appropriate social skills. Students at a young age need living, breathing teachers. Students need this not only so the teachers can nurture the student's brains appropriately, but also so they can mold students into well-rounded leaders of the future.
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Collins, on Knicks coaching change
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THE RECENT resurgence of the New York Knicks, winners of five in a row after Wednesday night's 82-79 win over the 76ers, has been directly attributed to the resignation of coach Mike D'Antoni on March 14 and the promotion of assistant Mike Woodson to head coach.
But how can a team, almost two-thirds of a way through a season, immediately become so much better because of a coaching change? The Knicks were wildly inconsistent under D'Antoni this season, having put together a seven-game winning streak to go with two six-game losing streaks, the last of which precipitated the resignation.
Sixers coach Doug Collins has been through midseason coaching changes, both as a coach and as a player. The quick success, he says, isn't so much about X's and O's, but perhaps due mostly to an attitude change by the players.
"In 1977, we went to the NBA Finals and the next year we started 2-4, and our coach was fired," said Collins, speaking of the Sixers and coach Gene Shue, who was replaced by Billy Cunningham. "Then after that, we won 14 out of 15.
"Usually anytime there's a coaching change, the one thing you see [improve] is the intensity. Mike D'Antoni is a very dear friend of mine, and he's a terrific coach. I'm sorry that it didn't work out for him in New York, and Mike Woodson's a really good guy. He's a guy who spent a lot of time in Atlanta and did a hell of a job there, and now is trying to put his fingerprints on it.
"Normally [with a new coach], there's a different excitement, you're not hearing the same voice. Maybe some guys figure they're going to get a chance to play. I think those things factor into a change. Some guys are affected the other way and are sorry to see the coach go. Normally what you see are more intensity, more aggression and passion. For whatever reason, it's probably more psychological more than anything else."
As the saying goes, you can't fire players. So when times get tough and coaches seem to have lost the players and/or the fans, it's usually the coach looking for another job.
"It's the tough part of our business," Collins said. "A coach gets let go when they've lost four or five in a row then the team wins six and it kicks you in the gut. It's the nature of the business. I don't think people realize, as a coach, all the things you go through and you feel. I was just kidding with [Temple coach Fran Dunphy], when you lose, you walk around town with your head down and your eyes down. Hester Prynne had the scarlet A; as a coach you have a scarlet L, for loser. It's just the nature of the business. It's a fraternity where everybody respects each other so much because everybody knows how it is. It's a tough profession."
Coach Doug Collins was looking for his 400th career win against the Knicks, but he'll have to wait. Collins, who has had stints in Chicago, Detroit and Washington, downplayed the significance of the milestone.
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Former Southlake Carroll standout to enter coaching ranks
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By Brent Shirley
Riley Dodge knows a lot about Texas high school football.
As Southlake Carroll's quarterback, Dodge led the Dragons to a Class 5A state championship win against Austin Westlake in 2006.
Now Dodge, after finishing his college career, is returning to his home state to coach.
Dodge has accepted an assistant coaching position at Westlake, the team he beat in '06.
"I have a passion for football and coaching," Dodge said. "I have my whole life."
In an e-mail, Westlake head coach Darren Allman said he hopes to sign Dodge to a contract by the end of the school year, but the deal isn't official yet.
Dodge is finishing his secondary education degree at McNeese State in Lake Charles, La., where he transferred after playing at North Texas for three years.
Dodge grew up around the game. His father, Todd, was Carroll's coach during its historic championship run of four 5A titles in five years, which ended with his son's state title. Todd Dodge became head coach this year at Class 4A Marble Falls, about 50 miles northwest of Austin.
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KEISSER: Ripley long ago found cozy home at LBCC
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Those who have never experienced life on a community college campus have little idea how enriching and comfortable it can be. Just ask Dan Ripley, who stepped on such a campus fresh out of high school and has basically never left.
The former Olympic and world-ranked pole vaulter is being honored Friday when he is inducted into the Long Beach City College Hall of Champions for his 15 years as head coach of the women's track and field program, where he led the Vikings to three state titles (1995, 1996, 1999), two state runner-up finishes, and seven first- or second-place finishes in the Southern California Championships.
The Vikings finished in the top four at the state meet every year from 1990 to 1999.
LBCC's rich history in track was male-heavy for decades before Ripley arrived and jump-started the women's program.
"When I arrived, Ron Allice's office had shelves of trophies lined up around the room from all of his championships," Ripley said of the legendary former Vikings and Long Beach State head coach, now the head track coach at USC. "You got one for finishing in the top three at the Southern California and State meets, and I remember thinking how great it would be to just have one."
By the time his coaching career ended, he had his own trophy stash. But Ripley is savvy enough about coaching and the community college experience to realize there's more to being a coach and teacher than winning, and that the two-year experience
It was for him. His two years at Cypress College launched his athletic career and set him on a path to eventually teach and coach, although at the time he thought it would be at the high school level.
His state title in the pole vault at Cypress earned him a scholarship to San Jose State.
Even while his athletic career as a pole vaulter was taking off, he was already coaching, returning to Cypress as an assistant in 1976.
He's remained on a community college campus ever since, save for one year when he went into private business with a pole vault manufacturer. He became the head coach at Mt. San Antonio College in 1980 for seven years before being hired at Long Beach City College. When he retired from coaching in 2002, he became a full-time professor in the Life Science Department.
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'Sydney FC has been the greatest coaching experience of my life'
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High Lavicka and Karol Kisel with the A-League grand final trophy. Photo: Getty Images
Vitezslav Lavicka is ready for an emotional farewell, writes Michael Cockerill.
Vitezslav Lavicka will say his goodbyes away from the spotlight, and before most of the crowd have settled into their seats for Sydney FC's final, and decisive, game of the season. It will take place perhaps 45 minutes before kick-off, when the players are just getting ready to warm-up and only the most devoted fans are inside Allianz Stadium. Lavicka will do a lap of the stadium, walking around the perimeter fence, chatting to those who are interested, perhaps posing for a photograph or signing an autograph. It is, what he describes as, his ''old-fashioned habit''. To engage the supporters, whether it be with former clubs such as Slovan Liberec or Sparta Prague, or, over the last three seasons, with Sydney FC.
Many coaches would not dream of putting themselves so close to the firing line. Football stadiums are, almost by definition, a refuge for malcontents. Fans are usually passionate, opinionated, and often quite vicious. But Lavicka - a polite, respectful, and patient man - generally manages to disarm them. True enough, one ''supporter'' midway through the low point of this season, charged down to the fence to yell abuse and throw his membership card at the Sky Blues coach. Lavicka barely flinched. Now, as he gets ready for his final appearance in the Allianz Stadium dugout, he has only kind words to say about the supporters. ''The Sydney FC fans, they are great, really great,'' he says. ''For me, it will be emotional when I do my walk around the stadium on Sunday. Usually it is just to say hello, and maybe speak a couple of words. But this time, it will be goodbye. It was the same at Slovan, and Sparta. I always leave part of my heart at the clubs where I work. And for me, Sydney FC has been the greatest coaching experience of my life.''
Anything less than a win in the final match of the regular season against Newcastle Jets and the Sky Blues will miss out on the finals for the second year in a row. After the euphoria of winning the championship in 2010, his first season at the club, Lavicka is in danger of departing with, at best, mixed reviews. Barring a miraculous charge through the finals series, it may be he finishes his time at Moore Park in the red. Whatever the case, the former Czech international will be remembered with kindness, even fondness. There's been no burning of bridges, no trail of destruction in his wake. Lavicka is a nice guy, some might argue too nice for the cesspit of professional sport. But he's won a championship in both his homeland (Slovan Liberec) and in Australia. That's a record to be proud of. Not that he's in the business of self-promotion.
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Low Vitezslav Lavicka shortly after Sydney FC's 4-0 home defeat to Melbourne Heart in December. Photo: Anthony Johnson
Talk to Lavicka about his time with Sydney FC, and he has a habit of deflecting the credit. He talks about the ''great people'' behind the club, and the ''co-operation'' he has enjoyed with members of his coaching staff such as Tony Popovic, Steve Corica and Ian Crook. ''I am a democratic coach, and I like to co-operate with my coaches very closely,'' he says. Most European coaches would never acknowledge they have learnt from the Australian game. Not Lavicka. He readily concedes he is a better coach than when he arrived.
''This was my first overseas experience and many, many people in the Czech Republic ask me to make a comparison,'' he says. ''I always say it is a different style to Europe, there are many different styles in the A-League, and the quality is going up all the time. You see a team like Brisbane Roar, and you can see how the game here is growing up. It is a young league, and of course there are things to improve, but people here should be proud of the A-League. I know I am.''
Despite the roller-coaster ride which has followed the championship season, there has never been a moment when Lavicka has regretted his decision to come to Sydney. It's been hard since his family returned to Prague last year, and that is a factor in the parting of ways. But for Sydney FC's longest-serving coach, the overwhelming impression has been a positive one. Both personally and professionally. In his office, there is a DVD collection of every game. All 88 of them. He can't take them all back to Prague, but one tape will definitely be in his luggage. The grand final win over the Victory in Melbourne. ''This is one of the best moments of my career, it is staying in my mind, in my heart, forever.''
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