Tag Archive | Unschooling
Abolish public schools?
Wow. I am convinced homeschooling is the best for anyone who wants to do it, and I’ve long been calling schools factories a la John Taylor Gatto, but it never occurred to me to go as far as comparing the institution of public schooling with the institution of slavery. Cevin Soling does, however. His article [...]
The ABCs of Unschooling
Thanks to my friend for forwarding this article to me. I have tried very little curriculum since I’ve had children (I did use it for five years before then, while teaching primary grades) so I did not experience a “great big hole on the plate,” but I have met many people who have yet to [...]
Back to (the wrong) school
I’ve been reading Seth Godin’s blog (via email subscription) for about a year, since someone suggested it online in a discussion about business productivity. I love his succinct articles, making it always possible to fit them into my busy day, and they almost always make me ponder. Today he has written about the state of [...]
Project 365 Day 13 How we homeschool
For the last few weeks my kids were having marathon viewings of shows like Wizards of Waverly Place and pbskids’ Fetch! This week they’ve been asking to do math problems, cooking experiments, and reading practice. True, at the beginning of this week I instituted Kendzie Decree #1: Before doing anything on a screen, the following [...]
unschooling
I’ve been moving a little away from unschooling since this academic year began. We’re still far, far away from being schooly, but I’ve been asking Rhiannon to do some math almost every day, and just generally trying to establish a “study hour” or work-before-play routine. I really want to trust that my kids will learn [...]
learning doesn’t take a vacation
When you learn all the time, learning doesn’t take vacations. I’ve been studying photography for a long time of course, but my focus on it has increased since I bought my new camera. I am subscribed to Digital Photography School and read articles there frequently. I check out the Canon forums occasionally, though I haven’t [...]
Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!
I listened to Ken Robinson’s inspiring words on education in 2006, so when I saw THIS posted on by someone on Facebook I knew I wanted to listen to him again, even though I couldn’t at that moment and had to email the link to myself to make sure I would remember. In his new [...]
unschooling and college
Here’s an interview with Brenna who was unschooled and has some interesting things to say about college. I want to record this so I’ll re-read it, and I want to share the ideas and talk about them. And, because I don’t like making a post without pictures, here is one of my most recent scrapbook [...]
gifts of service
I want to write about giving, from a point of view that is unfortunately not common. The inspiration for this post is a message on the AlwaysLearning yahoogroup. It was in response to someone writing about kids leaving their bikes outside, and it begins, “It is easy to fall prey to the idea that when [...]
unschooling in the media
What are your thoughts about the Good Morning America report on unschooling? I don’t watch t.v., but of course the link was posted to several of my online homeschool groups. At first I only had time to quickly read the written accompaniment to the video, and I still haven’t read the comments yet, but I [...]
