In case I haven't mentioned it yet, I'm a certified teacher in the mid-south with over 15 years experience in public education. I also served as a school counselor for 3 years at a charter school that operated under the William Glasser Institute model. This was a great experience as an educator and I have never forgotten the way charter schools pay attention to the needs of students more than the normal bureaucracy you find within the walls of most public schools.
I also spent one year teaching online for a virtual academy. Though they did not seem to be as on the "cutting edge" in online education as they believed they were, they were at least attempting to move the process of education to an online platform which is the future.
As an entrepreneur and writer now, I have decided to put much of my time and energy into developing a system of learning that is a complete 360 degree turn around from the normal education systems. It is not a school, per se; it is a method of instruction that uses the power of digital technologies and media to inspire the creative spirit that is so natural in kids and lets them learn while being inspired to create, not just to consume.
As a computer expert, I have created an original computer two years ago, based on the Raspberry Pi system, I was inspired to take the power of this and other innovative ideas in technology to the online market.
Our first projects are already online that you can purchase by visiting http://smalltownglobal.com. You'll see the digital products download tab when you go to the site. Here, you'll find the first three of what we hope to be hundreds of digital products for download in the near future.
These first products are teacher tools that teachers (or parents) can use to help their kids to use creativity in their school work. Creativity is not just putting artistic pictures on a computer or drawing smileys and animating them. Creativity is at the heart of all true learning and the application of creativity may be the difference in surface learning and deep learning. (ASCAP)
We are working on more digital products as I write this and we have recently purchased a new video camera that will allow us to produce even more digital products for kids, teachers, and parents.
We are not trying to create an official online school. We are just providing teachers and parents with the needed supplemental tools that will help to teach students cornerstone skills in Reading, Writing, and Literacy (as well as some Fine Arts and Technology) that they can use in their school projects.
We'll have more information on Kidschool TV soon. It will be a monthly subscription service that will be available to anyone who wants it for a mere $10 per month. Watch our video below and then click the link below the video to learn more and sign up for the program.
We hope to launch in Fall 2017.
Click below to check it out and sign up!
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See you in class!
-Deborah L. Killion, certified teacher and media expert
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