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Title: Cyber boys and girls - Stephen Manning, TES Post by: Tanya on May 11, 2007, 01:17:22 PM If you’ve ever worried your pupils can spot you’re wearing the same outfit two days running, or that they have already figured out the rotation of your three ties, you might consider the kind of teaching where all such vanity is suspended – the virtual classroom. Pupils unable to attend school through illness or exclusion could have their access to education transformed by the developing technology around personalised learning. One such project is the Nisai Virtual Academy (NVA), which is now in its fifth academic year as an online learning community for out-of-school children, from key stage 2 up to AS-level. Nisai Education produces software for “e-learning and remote education”. About half of the virtual classroom’s 250 pupils, who are based all over the country, have physical conditions ranging from ME to leukaemia, plus five who are paralysed. It also caters for excluded pupils whose goal is reintegration into mainstream education.
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