Are We Keeping Rural Communities Up Speed the Technology

Rural students tend to have less access to in-house advanced course offerings than do students living in more urban areas. At face value, this means that rural students have fewer opportunities to take advanced courses than do other students. Teachers in many cases require professional development and mentoring to help their students succeed.

 Online teacher professional development options are available to provide a cost effective and flexible solution, on example is (PD360). Students should also be provided access to online course offering through other schools. The school that I currently serve is also rural. We are in a position of having to evaluate new options for reaching our students such as hybrid course offerings, virtual labs and field trips...

It's not the access to technology that is the problem. Our schools are not placing enough importance on using technology effectively. This also applies to showing our parents how technology can positively impact their child's education, and why it is important for them to have access to these same tools at home.