Hello everybody!! I am forced to write this blog on online university degrees as one of my friends and I had an argument over the authenticity of online degrees and its recognition in the job market and among the ones who have got a regular degree. Online degrees some how are considered inferior to that of the regular degrees, but it is not true. Although I did my basic degree from a regular college, my financial condition did not allow me to pursue higher studies. I did not have any option other than to go for work, and when I started working, I happened to get married, which meant additional responsibility and no time for studies through a regular college.
The urge to study was always there in me, then I happened to bump on the website http://www.counselorinternet.info while searching for an online course through a popular search engine that I got convinced to do a course online. The main reason was that there was no limitation to the subject of study online as any degree was possible from an arts and science course to a professional course such as law, medicine, doctorate and MBA.
The advantage is that when a course did online, a person can carry on with the routine job and study during their convenient time, cost wise also one can save a lot. That is, it is affordable to everyone. As far as recognition is concerned, there is no difference from a regular course except for the fact that there is a difference of location of study. The diploma and degree are the same and has the same value.
Gee, I wonder if he's had any experience with this... (it actually broke my heart when I found this poem today. Everyone wrote things similar to this, but this one, especially knowing that he is ALWAYS being picked on...)
BULLIES - by Chris
Bullies Unreasonable Lawless Languish Ignorant Enemies Sad
And now, I feel completely justified that I went on for SIX PAGES this weekend about 'Chris would do better, have confidence, and finally learn to read if he was in a classroom where kids didn't beat him up and make him feel terrible all the time'.
I hate that I'm NOT Superwoman; that I am acutally pretty powerless to save my kids from these terrible situations. That I will compliment them to no end, and then they go home and have a mother who calls them stupid. That William can write a poem with the line '4 sisters and a brother who is up in heaven' and that the brother's suicide anniversary is right about now, or that one of my boys hasn't been seen in 2 weeks because he has to be on medication to rid him of the skin disease he contracted from not bathing... I wish people would stop reading People Magazine and wasting money on designer clothes and instead help fix the school systems. To stop and think about what is REALLY important in life.
This morning at around 7 am I took my last final, for biology (after having made an A on the website- 4 pages deep with internal links and at least 50 regular links-I designed as a final for Educational technology on Friday).
I am finally allowed to spend my time not studying or worrying about studying for pretty much the first time in 9 months.
When walking through DC this past weekend I saw a group of middle school children wearing shirts that read “I am college bound”. I instinctively thought the shirt was a bit odd as these kids are yet a decade away from having to decide where and what college they will attend. Then I thought “AH HA!” these shirts are for those who may never consider going to college – following unfortunate family trends or lacking financial resources – these shirts were sending a powerful message to not only those children wearing them, but to society and all others who may eventually impact their educational future.
So it is with no surprise that today in the paper, an article highlighted the measures being taken in Boston, Massachusetts to introduce college concepts, choices, dorm room life, and financial aid assistance to middle school children. The program is targeted amongst low income, minority schools where parents and grandparents were not college graduates:
”Seventh-graders learn about types of colleges -- junior, undergraduate and graduate -- and how much schooling they would need for different careers…In eighth grade, students learn about how they can finance their education, about dorm life and how to manage money and time. They make campus visits to colleges…”.
Do you think this program will impact children at such an early age when higher education choices and decisions are made further down the road at ages 17 and 18? Will the information and helpful assistance that they gain early on, be lost by the time it matters?
I am currently working on several paper presentations and a possible book regarding the pedagogy of humanity. This work has not been completely thought out and articulated, but I hope through discussions and presentations that I will be able to refine ideas and culminate them into a succinct discourse. My goal is to start developing teacher materials through rethinking schools or another publisher that shares the same vision for what I am trying to work on. As I have said in discussions, what can we say that hasn't been said? What we strive for is the right prescritpion (combination of philosophy and thoughts) for the right time that will address issues appropriately. Life is a process, a path, and an experiment.
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When walking through DC this past weekend I saw a group of middle school children wearing shirts that read “I am college bound”. I instinctively thought the shirt was a bit odd as these kids are yet a decade away from having to decide where and what college they will attend. Then I thought “AH HA!” these shirts are for those who may never consider going to college – following unfortunate family trends or lacking financial resources – these shirts were sending a powerful message to not only those children wearing them, but to society and all others who may eventually impact their educational future. 