The structure and delivery of education has largely not kept up with the tools that the digital age can provide. The exception is home schooling!
The internet has helped the expansion of home schooling, with the U.S.A home school community at least doubling between 1999 and 20121. Access to resources and curricula has increased as online programs such as Khan Academy have become staples for internet connected students, home-schooled or not1.
The increase in amount and quality of home-schooling opportunities allows for education to be accessible to families with logistical challenges, special needs or fans of alternate learning methods.
Additionally, home-schooling allows for a smoother incorporation of skills widely accepted to be vital in the education of students for an ever-changing future including creative thinking, entrepreneurship and interdisciplinary learning2.
The question of how best to teach the next generation is not new, and answers often include the use of technology to some degree. However, home schooling somewhat achieves a more abstract goal: changing the student-teacher hierarchy2.
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