Technology is changing the way your children are learning. For years, colleges have offered online courses and degrees. Now it seems your student could graduate from high school without ever stepping foot in a classroom. NewsChannel 8′s Kim Jackson says this revolutionary curriculum may surprise even the most modern parents.

For whatever reasons, some students cannot cope in a traditional classroom. Now, even your first grader can trade a pencil and paper for a mouse and a keyboard.

Welcome to online school in Oklahoma.

Blink and you might miss White Oak school. But don’t be fooled. This school is larger than it looks.

First grade only has six students, 2nd only has four students and the entire physical school only has fifty five students. But the online enrollment is bursting with 881 statewide virtual students–more than most urban high schools.

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Sand Springs school officials are looking at two teaching options that have changed traditional educational practices in other districts and across the nation.

School Superintendent Lloyd Snow told Sand Springs Board of Education members Monday evening the district will establish a virtual online school curriculum and is considering starting a charter school.

Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction Lori Kerns told the board the district “is ready to establish an online school” and that it will be operational by the fall of 2011.

The curriculum, which can be accessed by students at home through a computer, will be called the Sand Springs Virtual Learning Academy.

Kerns described the curriculum as a “hybrid model,” with teachers and counselors working with the off-site student.

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