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Sun, S. & Wang, C. (2006). Home School Parents’ Dilemma in front of the Internet. In C. Crawford et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (pp. 2685-2689). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Conference Information
Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference (SITE) 2006
Orlando, Florida, USA March 19, 2006
Caroline Crawford, Dee Anna Willis, Roger Carlsen, Ian Gibson, Karen McFerrin, Jerry Price & Roberta Weber
AACE
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Authors
Sunny Shuxiang Sun, Charles Xiaoxue Wang, Georgia State University, USA
Abstract
Abstract: This study examines the dilemmas facing thousands of home schooling parents: “To use or not to use” the Internet. Parents choose home schooling primarily to protect their children from the bad and unsafe learning environment. Yet the Internet, both as a learning means and learning resources, is a widely open environment with all the potential harms that home school parents worry about. This paper describes the study background and rationale, and offers research questions in examining influential factors behind their dilemmas. It shares with its audience the implications for home school parents in supervising their children and instructional design for virtual schools for home
