Can schools survive in the age of the web?

Credits: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20121123-can-schools-survive-the-web-age

"If you fancy a top-class education but can’t afford the fee or the time, there is now an alternative. This November, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation invested a million dollars in edX, the world’s largest online learning initiative."

" Founded by Harvard and MIT, edX boasts a growing number of “massively open online courses” aimed at bringing virtual versions of world-class higher education to hundreds of thousands of participants.

By 2013, it will offer a selection of entirely free online classes from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and the University of Texas. There are many other courses like this, listed in THIS BBC ARTICLE."

"The article points out that many of these courses are surprisingly conventional in the sense that they are based on lectures and tests - it describes more radical ways to use technology to help people learn, such as the One Laptop Per Child initiative.

Online, the global appetite for learning is becoming a powerful force. As the author and digital guru Clay Shirky put it in a widely-debated recent blog post, education is being disrupted by “a new story rearranging people’s sense of the possible.”

The web itself is old news, as are the brute facts of online information‘s dominance; we’ve had Wikipedia for over a decade. What’s new is the increasingly trusting eyes we turn towards online media for something more fundamental: the skills, knowledge and instruction required to thrive in the modern world."

Based on this, we can say that school can survive in the era of the Internet.

In many ways, the Internet helps and gives new knowledge, with the development of new technologies children have more opportunities to learn.