Deciding where to take a 5-year-old on a field trip is easy. Places like children’s museums and zoos are practically made for young kids’ field trips. Unfortunately, deciding where to take your teen on a field trip can be a little more difficult. Teens are a lot harder to please than young kids, and there [...]
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Comments OffAlthough snow and sledding aren’t likely something you’re thinking about in the dog days of summer, planning for the upcoming school year might be, and the book Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan would make an excellent study in project-based learning for your family. The book was written in 1942 and still captivates 8-12 year [...]
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Integrated learning seems like a pretty simple idea. Kids don’t get fired up when you say, “Let’s go study some English!” They get fired up with dinosaurs, scuba diving, and iPhone apps. Why? Because English is boring. In the traditional sense, that is. (Unless you’re that one teacher who really digs grammar. Seriously, I [...]
Posted in Back to School, Eclectic Homeschooling, Homeschool, Interdisciplinary, Learning Methods, News, Teaching methods, technology, Unit Study, Unschooling Tags: homeschool, informal learning, Learning, montessori, Project-based learning, unschool Comments OffWhy would anyone send their kids to learn from “Señor” Smith when you could actually have them learn with other native speakers and in ways that are fun and relevant to them? Enter the world of virtual language learning. It really is a great time to be alive! For the first time in history, language [...]
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Makerspaces have finally hit the mainstream. Even churches, schools, and libraries are incorporating makerspaces into their facilities so that community members; especially kids, can tinker, build, and hack toys, devices, and more to make something new. A Google search confirms the craze– the term makerspace returns 44,800 results. Beyond makerspaces, though, is the idea of [...]
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There has been a paradigm shift occurring in academia throughout the past several years. As online avenues for learning continue to gain momentum and legitimacy in the academic and education world, many of our learning ambitions are being transferred to the virtual realm. Today, not only can an individual earn a college degree by taking [...]
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According to Ivan Illich in 1972, “Universal education through schooling is not feasible”. His radical ideas regarding schooling provoked much debate back in the 1970s, with most dismissing him as an over-zealous new-age hippy. Could it be, however, that he was rather a forward-thinking would-be educational revolutionary? Are his ideas still valid today, and have [...]
Posted in Back to School, Homeschool, Learning Methods, News Tags: Education, homeschool, Ivan Illich, Learning Comments OffTED videos have always been great for kids. We’ve been viewing talks as a family for years, enjoying insights into different ways of thinking. With TED-Ed videos, you can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on any video from YouTube. The featured lessons are mostly [...]
Posted in Eclectic Homeschooling, Homeschool, Learning Methods, Online Tools, Teaching methods, TED Tags: homeschool, Learning, online education, TED, TED-Ed, unschool, video Comments OffYou know that child, the precocious know-it-all that talks enthusiastically and incessantly about arcane topics like 19th century rifling patterns. This child is so ‘odd’. Normal children do not talk like ‘little professors’. Normal children talk about age-appropriate material, like their favorite star on American Idol or the latest episode of Sponge Bob. So, what [...]
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