Some say, however, that virtual schooling might become the real thing in the future. At Palmyra-Eagle High School, where interactive television has helped the school add a foreign language as well as offer Advanced Placement psychology, school officials have good things to say about the opportunities provided by technology. We don't have a German teacher on staff. Instead, the school is part of the Jefferson Eastern Dane Interactive, or JEDI, network. It is a consortium of high schools from Sun Prairie to Whitewater to Palmyra-Eagle that offers classes taught by one teacher at one of the sites and transmitted simultaneously through televisions to students at the other schools.
Some conflicting schedules make for early starts and late finishes for both students and teachers.
Students embrace technology For AP psychology teacher Jorie Sigmund, lecturing through microphones and monitoring students by television are not her preferred methods of teaching. She would like to talk less and have students experiment more. I think so. Students might have fewer hang-ups than teachers about using the technology. Those who work with high schoolers engaged in distance learning say they are amazed at how quickly the students pick it up and how comfortable they seem.