October 19, 2009 – 12:12 am
First-year college performance:
A study of home school graduates and traditional school graduates
Okay Kids, Time For Bedlam
unstructured structure
August 11, 2009 – 1:09 pm
This post I found over at Peace on Dark Nights is one of the best posts I have seen in a while on the difference between unit studies (and traditional homeschooling) and unschooling. And my kids find it just as frustrating as I do that all the 5 year old and up kids in [...]
A pair of researchers, Harriet Pattison and Alan Thomas, are conducting a survey on how children learn to read at home. From the site:
‘In “How Children Learn at Home” we concentrated on how children learn school subjects informally at home. Our aim was to build up a general picture of learning at home. [...]
I just discovered a new Zine that may appeal to other interest-led home schoolers–it certainly appeals to me–I mean who could pass up their tag line:
“There are many practical and scholarly homeschooling resources…
Around Zine is not one of them.”
I haven’t managed to get a hold of a copy yet but will as soon as possible [...]
December 12, 2008 – 2:43 am
This is all you need to know:
WRITING IS NOT HARD. Writing is communicating. If you can think, you can write.
So why do home schoolers spend so much money on writing curriculum and give writing assignments starting in first grade and worry that their kids don’t write enough? Probably because the home schooling parent went [...]
November 3, 2008 – 3:50 pm
We don’t have cable and haven’t found it necessary to our home schooling. However, we do have a Wii with wireless internet, meaning we get and can watch Youtube on our tv. (We also get Netflix–we find that to be an excellent educational investment but that is another whole post.)
As willing as my children are [...]
October 2, 2008 – 12:15 am
I’m a missions junky. I’ve wanted to be missionary since I was a teenager. When it was time to decide what to study in college, I figured teaching or nursing would be the most useful on the mission field, and I didn’t like blood, so it had to be teaching. We have never actually moved [...]
September 7, 2008 – 12:37 am
The above video is long but well worth the watch. I recommend taking it in small chunks because it is full of very interesting information. My husband described it as running through an art museum trying to see everything.
What does a video by an anthropologist about media literacy have to do with unschooling?
Mike Wesch is [...]
