Kentucky Educational Television could play a larger role in the future of K through 12 instruction across the Commonwealth as cash-strapped school districts struggle to offer more facilities and advanced placement classes for their students. That’s what KET’s Senior Director of Education Nancy Carpenter told the Senate Education Committee in Frankfort last week.
She says distance learning through KET could provide opportunities for students to take a range of courses that some districts could not offer because demand is lacking and the expense would be too great. Physics classes with fully-equipped labs, she says, are a case in point…
Carpenter says students can use interactive, virtual labs to explore, collect data and draw conclusions. She says they also offer a chance to provide instruction in areas, such as radioactivity, that would be unsafe in a school building.