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What Leads Families to “Unschool” Their Children? Report II | Psychology Today
"My goal now, in Report II, is to describe the paths by which the families that responded to the survey came to unschooling.  This report is based on a qualitative analysis that my colleague Gina Riley and I  made of the responses to Item 6 on the survey form, which reads as follows: 

6. Please describe the path by which your family came to the unschooling philosophy you now practice.  In particular:  (a) Did any specific school experiences of one or more of your children play a role?  If so, briefly describe those experiences. (b) Did any particular author or authors play a role? If so, please name the author or authors and what most appealed to you about their writing.  (c) Did you try homeschooling before unschooling?  If so, what led you from one to the other?"

[Part 1: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201202/the-benefits-unschooling-report-i-large-survey ]
homeschool  research  parenting  2012  petergray  deschooling  unschooling  education  learning  from delicious
7 weeks ago by robertogreco
The Benefits of Unschooling: Report I from a Survey of 231 Families | Psychology Today
"Here, in a series of reports in this blog, my intention is to present a more informal report of the survey results. In this first report, I present some general statistics about the families who responded and then  focus on their definitions of unschooling and their statements about the benefits of unschooling. In subsequent reports I'll focus on their paths to unschooling and the biggest challenges of unschooling. One thing I can do here, which we won't be able to do in the more formal academic article, is to present many quotations from the survey forms. Many of the respondents are eloquent writers, who had no trouble putting their enthusiasm for unschooling into words."

[Part 2: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201203/what-leads-families-unschool-their-children-report-ii ]
learning  deschooling  2012  education  parenting  research  unschooling  petergray  homeschool  from delicious
11 weeks ago by robertogreco
n+1: Learning in Freedom
"I never say everyone should unschool or that we should replicate Albany Free School, which I don’t think could scale in its current formation (it depends, for example, on a volunteer ethos I don’t think we can or should expect from our educators)…foundation of unschooling philosophy is idea that we are, to quote John Holt, “learning animals,” & that we should tap into people’s intrinsic motivation to explore & understand the world…

…most liberal parents are desperate to help their children climb to the top of the meritocracy…top of an exclusionary pyramid…largely been rigged in their favor all along. How liberal is that? One of the virtues of unschooling, of the radical philosophy that underpins it, is that it calls the entire hierarchy into question…

Today, conventional wisdom has it that the solution is more, never less.

…taking a closer look at radical margins may help us ask better questions about what we really want from our educational system…how to go about getting it."
whiteflight  publicschools  schooliness  schooling  schools  homeschool  children  parenting  learning  education  segregation  diversity  policy  2012  albanyfreeschool  johnholt  society  deschooling  competition  meritocracy  liberals  danagoldstein  publiceducation  astrataylor  unschooling  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Why Urban, Educated Parents Are Turning to DIY Education - The Daily Beast
"They raise chickens. They grow vegetables. They knit. Now a new generation of urban parents is even teaching their own kids."

[Lost some respect for Wendy Mogel due to the parts of this article that reference her.]

"And the kids? There’s concern that having parents at one’s side throughout childhood can do more harm than good. Psychologist Wendy Mogel, the author of the bestselling book The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, admires the way homeschoolers manage to “give their children a childhood” in an ultracompetitive world. Yet she wonders how kids who spend so much time within a deliberately crafted community will learn to work with people from backgrounds nothing like theirs. She worries, too, about eventual teenage rebellion in families that are so enmeshed."
2012  speculation  teens  deschooling  diyeducation  diy  learning  wendymogel  parenting  homeschool  unschooling  education  homeschooling  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Village Home Educational Resource Center
"The Village Home community learning environment is best suited for self-directed, intrinsically motivated, lifelong learners who actively participate in their educational plans with their families. All learners are welcome at Village Home regardless of race, age, religion, creed, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disabilities, or education philosophy. Village Home is currently located on church property, but is an independent, secular organization."
homeschool  education  portland  beaverton  oregon  lcproject  freeschools  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
My Parents Were Home Schooling Anarchists - NYTimes.com [via: http://hourschool.tumblr.com/post/12568871390/its-not-the-method ]
"What my parents did embrace were countercultural values. Or, as my father likes to say, quoting Gerard Manley Hopkins, “all things counter, original, spare, strange.” (My dad’s father once grew corn in his backyard for the sole purpose of taking weekend naps among the stalks.) My mom maintains that she didn’t consider herself “an activist or anything like that. I was just part of a current that was happening, fertile ground for all the new ways of thinking.”

At the time, home schooling was almost virgin territory. My dad was attracted to home schooling because he felt “stifled” during his 16 years of formal education. “I was a poor student,” he says. “School was something I endured because I had no choice.” Not wanting his offspring to suffer the same fate, he informed my mom soon after she became pregnant with Mary that none of his children were ever going to school. “We were educational anarchists,” he says."
unschooling  deschooling  education  learning  travel  yearoff  glvo  cv  parenting  anarchism  radicals  1970s  children  sumerhill  ivanillich  johnholt  lcproject  counterculture  frugality  growingwithoutschooling  freedom  laissezfaire  homeschool  history  makedo  loneliness  displacement  progressive  margaretheidenry  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
Nothing Grows Forever | Mother Jones
"Handled correctly, this could bring about an explosion of free time that could utterly transform the way we live, no-growth economists say. It could lead to a renaissance in the arts and sciences, as well as a reconnection with the natural world. Parents with lighter workloads could home-school their children if they liked, or look after sick relatives—dramatically reshaping the landscape of education and elder care."
economics  growth  sustainability  ecology  environment  petervictor  clivethompson  johnstuartmill  adamsmith  globalwarming  population  2011  thomasrobertmalthus  history  well-being  happiness  france  netherlands  unemployment  employment  leisure  leisurearts  art  science  dennismeadows  hermandaly  keynes  motivation  psychology  capitalism  no-growththeory  wealthdistribution  standardofliving  us  europe  homeschool  unschooling  deschooling  productivity  post-industrial  post-development  work  labor  uneconomicgrowth  from delicious
october 2011 by robertogreco
3er Congreso Internacional Educación Sin Escuela
"Los casos de familias y comunidades que deciden educar sin escuela y educar en familia crecen aceleradamente en diversos países del mundo, incluyendo a Colombia. Este fenómeno es nuevo para los intereses de investigación científica académica universitaria. Las agudas problemáticas de la deserción escolar, el absentismo escolar y la baja o nula motivación de los niños, niñas, adolescentes y jóvenes para asistir a la escuela, tienen directa relación con este campo de investigación académica. En algunos países, como Estados Unidos, Canadá, Reino Unido, España, Noruega y Francia, ha ido creciendo rápidamente la investigación universitaria sobre esto temas, denominados generalmente como Homeschooling o Unschooling."

[via: http://www.patfarenga.com/pat-farengas-blog/2011/10/20/education-without-school-conference-in-bogota-colombia.html ]
colombia  bogotá  unschooling  homeschool  education  conferences  from delicious
october 2011 by robertogreco
IAmA 15 year old who unschools, AmA : IAmA
"I just got back from Grace's Not Back To School Camp where I spent one week with a group of other kids who are also unschooling, a great majority of these kids are unbelievably smart and directed.

My personal history is that I went to public school from preschool to grade 8, where although my grades were top notch, but I was so depressed that I couldn't keep it up. I stopped feeling interested in anything. Eventually I got my parents to take the book seriously and let me drop out for a while. Since then my mental health has grown leaps and bounds, I have rediscovered my love for marine biology, made friends across the country, and become a more mellow person in general. I love life now.

I really hope I didn't make a small spelling mistake that I missed in proofreading this, just to have everyone judge my method of schooling based on it.

TL;DR: I don't go to school, I teach myself. I went from a depressed shell of a kid to someone who loves life and is less scared of the future."
unschooling  deschooling  reddit  via:lizette  education  schooling  schools  schooliness  glvo  experience  alternative  homeschool  gracellewellyn  notbacktoschoolcamp  learning  freedom  discussion  2011  from delicious
october 2011 by robertogreco
PsycNET - Display Record: The impact of schooling on academic achievement: Evidence from homeschooled and traditionally schooled students.
"Although homeschooling is growing in prevalence, its educational outcomes remain unclear. The present study compared the academic achievements of homeschooled children with children attending traditional public school. When the homeschooled group was divided into those who were taught from organized lesson plans (structured homeschoolers) and those who were not (unstructured homeschoolers), the data showed that structured homeschooled children achieved higher standardized scores compared with children attending public school. Exploratory analyses also suggest that the unstructured homeschoolers are achieving the lowest standardized scores across the 3 groups."
homeschool  unschooling  testing  standardizedtesting  2011  missingthepoint  research  structure  unstructured  via:cervus  has:via  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
The History of Homeschooling | Online College Tips - Online Colleges
[Direct link to image: https://s3.amazonaws.com/infographics/Homeschooling_page.png ]
homeschool  law  us  legal  timeline  infographics  statistics  maps  mapping  2011  education  learning  schooling  unschooling  history  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Social Psychology: Are home educated children as socialized as publicly educated children and is there any solid research on this topic? - Quora
"Personally I believe our society is broken in that people mainly associate with people their own age. My relatives in the Philippines, if they threw a party, would include everyone -- babies, kids, teenagers, people in their 20s, 30s, 40s -- and grandmas in their 80s. This was not unusual, and I think, the mark of a healthy society. However I rarely see this kind of intergenerational mixing in the States, except with first generation immigrants."
caterinafake  homeschool  education  learning  socialization  social  society  agesegregation  parenting  unschooling  deschooling  2011  children  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
DIY and Further Reading « Adventures in Free Schooling
education  unschooling  deschooling  johnholt  resources  youth  homeschool  learning  lcproject  freeschools  democraticschools  opensource  food  opensourcefood  liberation  freedom  independence  self-directedlearning  brianvanslyke  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Audio Recordings of John Holt
"This early interview of John, done in Philadelphia in-between speaking engagements, is a very good overview of Holt's work, and is particularly focused on homeschooling. John Holt interviewed by Teri Gross on Fresh Air, NPR, 1981<br />
Though homeschooling is discussed, the bulk of this talk show focuses on how schools can be changed and Holt's thoughts about that. John Holt interviewed on Boston radio, WBOS, about the "A Nation at Risk" report [1983]<br />
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This is the raw interview tape that Holt owned, not the final broadcast version. Covers lots of political and educational reform ground about homeschooling, including Holt's thoughts about the influence of religious fundamentalists, are homeschoolers abandoning schools, unqualified parents teaching their own, and much more. John Holt interviewed by David Freudberg/Kindred Spirits Radio, April 11, 1985<br />
[via: http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2011/07/compilation-of-work-from-john-holt-one.html ]
johnholt  terigross  audio  1981  1983  1985  radio  education  unschooling  deschooling  schooling  learning  children  parenting  homeschool  publicschools  policy  politics  anationatrisk  rote  backtobasics  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Wisdom and Salt Water on Vimeo
"The film that you are about to see is a video recording of a gathering of families and individuals that met in Deer Park, Bir, Himachal Pradesh in India in April 2011, to discuss and share there learning journeys.<br />
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This interaction is a session in which alternative ways to facilitate learning for children was discussed. Parents shared personal stories of how they were inspired or motivated to think of alternative learning environment other than schools, for their children and themselves.<br />
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Copyleft (L) - Learning Societies Conference 2011"
priyaravi  unschooling  deschooling  homeschool  education  lcproject  learning  parenting  children  india  via:monikahardy  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Escape from Childhood
"Young people should have the right to control and direct their own learning, that is, to decide what they want to learn, and when, where, how, how much, how fast, and with what help they want to learn it. To be still more specific, I want them to have the right to decide if, when, how much, and by whom they want to be taught and the right to decide whether they want to learn in a school and if so which one and for how much of the time.<br />
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No human right, except the right to life itself, is more fundamental than this…<br />
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We might call this the right of curiosity, the right to ask whatever questions are most important to us. As adults, we assume that we have the right to decide what does or does not interest us, what we will look into and what we will leave alone. We take this right largely for granted…"
johnholt  childhood  children'srights  education  learning  schools  compulsory  curiosity  freedom  expectations  teaching  unschooling  homeschool  deschooling  interestdriven  escapefromchildhood  books  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Maine Unschooling Network
"Welcome to Maine Unschooling Network, a secular community of whole-life learners, autodidacts and radical unschoolers of all ages, questioning and living free of institutional education."
unschooling  maine  lcproject  deschooling  education  learning  sipportgroups  blogs  autodidacts  homeschool  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Unschooling Media: Participatory Practices among Progressive Homeschoolers [.pdf]
Just reencountered Vanessa Bertozzi's 2006 thesis through a post by Sandra Dodd, commented by David Friedman: http://unschooling.blogspot.com/2011/06/unschooling-media-participatory.html

"On the flipside of the technology debate, I experienced a moment of great academic pleasure when I received an email from Rob, an unschooling dad in California. He explained that he’d come across my links tagged “unschooling” in del.icio.us and he was curious about my research. We then went on to have a very fruitful interview."
vanessabertozzi  unschooling  homeschool  networking  del.icio.us  bookmarks  bookmarking  2006  lizettegreco  glvo  education  learning  networkedlearning  participatory  participatoryculture  grassroots  ego  cv  filetype:pdf  media:document 
june 2011 by robertogreco
O'DonnellWeb : Homeschoolers are Weird
"For those of you that don’t quite get why a secular family would homeschool, my 5 minute presentation from Ignite DC may help."<br />
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[description from his comment at: http://friendlyatheist.com/2011/06/09/what-happens-at-a-christian-home-schooling-convention/#comment-764321 ]
chriso'donnell  education  learning  unschooling  deschooling  homeschool  time  khanacademy  2011  ignite  weirdness  depthoverbreadth  xkcd  glvo  cv  alternative  alternativeeducation  marktwain  alberteinstein  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Generation Z will revolutionize education | Penelope Trunk [Via (see response): http://www.odonnellweb.com/?p=9206 AND http://radiofreeschool.blogspot.com/2011/04/revolutionizing-education-were-doing-it.html ]
"1. A huge wave of homeschooling will create a more self-directed workforce…Gen X is more comfortable working outside system than Baby Boomers…<br />
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2. Homeschooling as kids will become unschooling as adults…school does not prepare people for work…Gen Y has been very vocal about this problem…<br />
3. The college degree will return to its bourgeois roots; entrepreneurship will rule. The homeschooling movement will prepare Gen Y to skip college, & Gen X is out-of-the-box enough in their parenting to support that…<br />
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Baby Boomers are too competitive to risk pulling college rug out from under kids. Gen Y are rule followers—if adults tell them to go to college, they will. Gen X is very practical…1st gen in US history to have less money than parents…makes sense that Gen X would be generation to tell kids to forget about college.<br />
90% of Gen Y say they want to be entrepreneurs, but only very small % of them will ever launch full-fledged business, because Generation Y are not really risk takers."
education  homeschool  generations  genx  geny  babyboomers  boomers  generationy  generationx  risk  risktaking  unschooling  deschooling  culture  learning  change  entrepreneurship  2011  colleges  college  universities  schools  schooliness  rules  rulefollowing  competitiveness  lcproject  debt  tuition  freeuniversities  doing  making  trying  generationz  genz  strauss&howe  gamechanging  generationalstrife  autodidacts  autodidactism  self-directedlearning  self-directed  selflearners  self-education  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
The Unschooling Mindset - Blake Boles on Vimeo
blakeboles  unschooling  deschooling  homeschool  education  self-directedlearning  highereducation  highschool  colleges  universities  learning  cv  travel  self-directed  self-education  alternative  alternativeeducation  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Aprender Sem Escola
"A maior parte dos pais manda os filhos para a escola sem saber que tem o direito de os educar em casa. Em Portugal, como em vários outros países, o ensino doméstico é legal, definido como "aquele que é leccionado no domicílio do aluno, por um familiar ou por pessoa que com  ele habite."
education  learning  homeschool  unschooling  deschooling  portugal  portuguese  blogs  alternative  alternativeeducation  schooling  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Sal Kahn Out To Disrupt Education | O'DonnellWeb
[Kahn:] we should “decouple credentialing from learning.” Instead of handing out degrees, standardized assessments would be measure of employee competence.<br />
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While I’m 110% behind idea of separating education & credentialing, I’m not sure standardized assessments are the answer. Human beings are not standardized…we should stop pretending a test score or diploma has any real predictive ability regarding human behavior. A teacher that is passionate is far more valuable than [one] that aced test & got diploma. But you can’t measure passion, you can only observe it.<br />
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[Kahn:] lectures would become homework & teacher tutoring would occur during class time.<br />
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Is there any larger waste of time in the education establishment than making 20-200 students assemble in room to listen to instructor ramble on from memorized notes? If you can’t interact w/ instructor there is no reason to bother being in the same room…"
chriso'donnell  teaching  learning  salkhan  education  standards  standardization  standardizedtesting  passion  schools  memorization  lectures  unschooling  deschooling  homeschool  diplomas  credentials  assessment  truelearning  lcproject  tcsnmy  competency  khanacademy  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
patfarenga.com — The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same
"I recently transferred this video interview with me about homeschooling and unschooling that I did for Christian Science Monitor television in 1991. It is almost exactly 20 years ago to the day (2/16/1991) when I filmed it, but since so much of the information is still relevant I thought it would be of interest. I'm struck by how in those 20 years we went from the estimated 500,000 homeschooled children in 1991 to nearly 2 million today, and yet we are still being asked the same questions, particularly "How will homeschooled children be socialized?" What I like about this interview is how thoughtful and prepared John Parrott, the interviewer, was. He handled the socialization question differently than I expected and I was pleasantly surprised."
1991  patfarenga  unschooling  deschooling  homeschool  education  learning  socialization  children  parenting  lcproject  teaching  schools  schooling  schooliness  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Disgruntled College Student Starts 'UnCollege' to Challenge System - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
"19-year-old entrepreneur, wants to bring the idea of home-schooling to the college level, with an unusual new Web service he calls UnCollege…<br />
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…tapping into growing frustrations about the high costs of college and the value of a college degree…<br />
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…UnCollege plans to serve as a social group for self-learners to trade tips on how to learn enough through nontraditional means to get the job they’re aiming for. Mr. Stephens has been home-schooled since fifth grade, and he says that has taught him how to find ways to learn outside of classrooms—by finding internships, seeking out mentors, and designing projects on his own. And he says he is frustrated with his experience so far at college, mainly because of what he calls “a gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application of that knowledge.” In other words, he spent his time in class thinking to himself, Why do I need to know this?<br />
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“I don’t feel that I’ve learned things that I couldn’t have learned on my own,” he said."
education  homeschool  unschooling  deschooling  highereducation  highered  colleges  universities  learning  self-directedlearning  autodidacts  experience  lcproject  online  projectbasedlearning  the2837university  agitpropproject  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
12 Dozen Places To Educate Yourself Online For Free
"All education is self-education.  Period.  It doesn’t matter if you’re sitting in a college classroom or a coffee shop.  We don’t learn anything we don’t want to learn.<br />
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Those people who take the time and initiative to pursue knowledge on their own are the only ones who earn a real education in this world.  Take a look at any widely acclaimed scholar, entrepreneur or historical figure you can think of.  Formal education or not, you’ll find that he or she is a product of continuous self-education.<br />
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If you’re interested in learning something new, this article is for you.  Broken down by subject and/or category, here are several top-notch self-education resources I have bookmarked online over the past few years.<br />
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Note that some of the sources overlap between various subjects of education.  Therefore, each has been placed under a specific subject based on the majority focus of the source’s content."
education  learning  online  free  reference  homeschool  unschooling  deschooling  via:caterina  glvo  edg  srg  references  opencourseware  opencontent  law  humanities  history  classideas  science  health  lcproject  business  money  compsci  engineering  math  mathematics  english  communication  books  autodidacts  self-education  self-directedlearning  internet  web  openeducation  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
askSKR Question 9: Homeschooling and Unschooling « Sir Ken Robinson
"I’ve often been asked for my thoughts on homeschooling and unschooling. In this video, I share some thoughts"
askskr  kenrobinson  unschooling  deschooling  homeschool  learning  education  parenting  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
patfarenga.com — Homeschooling is officially illegal in Spain
"Homeschooling was declared illegal in Spain in December 2010, mainly because there is no language in the Spanish constitution that permits it. Madalen Goiria, a Spanish citizen and a law professor, notified me that this case “comes after an appeal to the Constitutional Court numbered 7509/2005 against a previous decision by the Audiencia de Malaga, put forward by two families: Antonio Gómez, Maria Socorro Sanchez, Florian Macarró and Anabelle Gosselint. The Constitutional Court decision has come five years later and it is dated 2nd December 2010.” The essence of the constitutional court decision is that homeschooling is not a right under Spanish law and therefore all children must attend formal school. The court notes that laws can be made that allow for more flexibility and choices for families, but until then homeschooling is illegal in Spain."
patfarenga  spain  españa  law  unschooling  homeschool  policy  education  learning  schools  teaching  2011  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Bachelor Of Science » 50 Awesome & Inspiring TED Talks for Homeschoolers
"TED talks are addicting for folks of every age. Once you start listening, it opens your mind and you begin thinking beyond your immediate bubble of home life, work and school. It’s proof that thinking outside the box is a must for every subject. The list of TED talks compiled here will make students put their thinking caps and notice that the world around them and it’s an interesting place to be."
homeschool  unschooling  education  ted  tedtalks  learning  arts  art  glvo  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Adversarian
"the blog for autodidacts, unschoolers, life-learners, and open-minded educators"
unschooling  blogs  homeschool  autodidacts  learning  education  deschooling  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
The Innovative Educator: unschooling
All posts labeled unschooling
unschooling  deschooling  education  learning  schools  homeschool  glvo  lcproject  freeschools  democratic  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
The Innovative Educator: 20 Characteristics I’ve Discovered about Unschoolers and Why Innovative Educators Should Care
"They are driven by passion…have a love of learning…want you to know school isn’t best place to learn lessons on socialization…are happy…have interesting careers they enjoy…are artistic…creative…have a concern for environment…consider learning in the world far more authentic & valuable then learning in school world…deeply consider whether college is right choice for them rather than it being a given…have no problem getting in to college…appreciate some aspects of formalized schooling in college if they’ve decided to attend…advocate for themselves & their right to meaningful curriculum in college…don’t believe they are an exception because they are especially self motivated, driven, or smart…shrug off the criticism that they won’t be able to function in the real world…don’t expect learning to come just from a parent, adult, authority or teacher…are often defending the fact that they were unschooled…are adventurous…are grateful they were unschooled"
unschooling  education  schooling  learning  homeschool  glvo  via:rushtheiceberg  teaching  tcsnmy  lcproject  srg  edg  adults  colleges  universities  creativity  adventure  exploration  lifelonglearning  comments  anseladams  dorislessing  dropouts  richardbranson  deschooling  lisanielsen  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
I'm Unschooled. Yes, I Can Write.: A list of blogs by teenage and grown unschoolers
"I've been asked fairly frequently for links to other teenage and grown unschoolers blogs, so I decided to put a bunch of links together in one post!  I try to keep this list updated with current blogs, so I add new ones as I discover them and remove blogs that are no longer active."
unschooling  adults  blogs  lists  blogging  education  deschooling  writing  homeschool  glvo  srg  edg  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
When do you stop being a homeschooler? « Un-schooled
"I still feel like a homeschooler. I think I might always be…<br />
…my strange education feels relevant to everything. The way I think, the decisions I make, the things I’m good at, the things I’m terrible at, the way I understand my place in the world, the way I understand other people– it all starts w/ my education.<br />
This is always true. Just like it’s always true that the way you think starts w/ your family. But for most people, family & education aren’t mixed together to extent that homeschooling necessitates…for most people, education doesn’t distinguish you from everyone else. It makes you more similar…attempts to equalize, & in some ways it succeeds. From a outside perspective, a homeschooled one, the experience of school sometimes seems practically uniform. It isn’t, of course, but school is still an experience that most people have in common.<br />
…My life is built on something else entirely. I can’t even tell how steady it is…I might be floating. I feel kind of free."
unschooling  homeschool  education  uniformity  conformity  experience  family  deschooling  connection  freedom  society  life  glvo  perspective  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Mission Science Workshop
...seeks to combine traditional activities in experimental science—use of microscopes, balances, thermometers, culturing plants and animals—with building a variety of projects with clay, wood, and plastic, including pendulums, electric and mechanical toys, musical instruments, and apparatuses that enhance our explorations of sound, light, and color.<br />
In all our activities in the workshop the emphasis is upon learning from observation and direct experience with real things rather than simply accepting the truth of transmitted knowledge, whether the source is books or teachers. Our favorite quote is from physicist Richard Feynman: “Science doesn’t teach anything, experience teaches it.”
parenting  homeschool  unschooling  science  sanfrancisco  dansudran  missionscienceworkshop  lcproject  education  learning  handsonlearning  handson  schools  teaching  children  alternative  alternativeeducation  experiential  scientificmethod  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
A place to awaken S.F. kids' inner Einsteins
"Those are magic words to Dan Sudran, 64, who conducted the balloon experiment the other day in the Mission Science Workshop he runs in a former high school auto shop on Church Street in San Francisco.<br />
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Sudran's do-it-yourself laboratory is to science what a wizard's lair is to sorcery. Complete animal skeletons hang from the ceiling or from perches - a cow found in the Salinas Valley, an ostrich acquired by way of Sudran's butcher, a dolphin donated by a guy in Bolinas.<br />
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There's a mummified cat that a janitor found at a middle school, its fangs still agape in terror. A pelican in dramatic rigor mortis is available for inspection. Bones, flippers, femurs, hooves, teeth and beaks are arranged in evolutionary order on a table. Donors include bears, pigs, sea lions, armadillos and humans."
via:caterina  parenting  homeschool  unschooling  science  sanfrancisco  dansudran  missionscienceworkshop  lcproject  education  learning  handsonlearning  handson  schools  teaching  children  alternative  alternativeeducation  experiential  scientificmethod  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
The Community as Teacher « Sesat Blog
"Actively accessing the community has taught us an important lesson: schoolteachers are credentialed to be experts in teaching. They may have knowledge about and little or no real interest in the content of their lessons beyond what is necessary to communicate it to their charges. Some few of us have the fondest memories of teachers who were painters, restored old cars, played sousaphones, wrote poetry or raised horses. But this expertise is peripheral to their teaching. And rare indeed is the elementary school teacher who has ongoing relationships with students and their families outside of the classroom.<br />
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When, instead of the traditional school, one utilizes the community as a flexible learning environment, the whole point is to find individuals prepared and willing to share their deepest passions and most highly developed expertise with our children."
davidalbert  andtheskylarksingswithme  caterinafake  homeschool  unschooling  deschooling  lcproject  education  learning  libraries  schooling  schools  teaching  families  community  tcsnmy  cv  relationships  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Sesat Blog
Caterina Fake appears to have started a homeschooling blog.
homeschool  education  blogs  unschooling  deschooling  caterinafake  learning  lcproject  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
The World’s 15 Most Extraordinary Homeschoolers
"But as our list of the world’s 15 most extraordinary homeschoolers shows, the homeschooling population is extraordinarily diverse, defying every attempt to shoehorn them into a single mold. The homeschoolers on this list are geniuses and jocks, conservatives and progressives, fundamentalists and hippies, scientists and artists. They are rural and urban, American and international, abled and disabled, black, white, Asian and multiracial."<br />
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1. Julian Assange 2. Margaret Atwood 3. Francis Collins 4. Erik Demaine 5. Blake Griffin 6. The Jonas Brothers 7. Akiane Kramarik 8. Jonathan Krohn 9. Joey Logano 10. Jedediah Purdy 11. Condoleezza Rice 12. Astra Taylor 13. Sunaura Taylor 14. timtebow 15. Sho Yano
julianassange  margaretatwood  franciscollins  erikdemaine  blakegriffin  jonasbrothers  akianekramarik  jonathankrohn  joeylogano  jedediahpurdy  condoleezzarice  astrataylor  sunaurataylor  timtebow  shoyano  unschooling  homeschool  education  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Amazon.com: Unschooling Rules: 50 Perspectives and Insights from Homeschoolers and Unschoolers on Deconstructing Schools and Reconstructing Education (9781451567328): Clark Aldrich: Books: Reviews, Prices & more
"While most schools continue to resist change, homeschooling families are abandoning the K-12 system and reinventing what childhood education means. They are identifying new methods and goals that are powerful, born of common sense, and incompatible with today's schools. The author, education expert Clark Aldrich, has explored the cultures and practices of homeschoolers and unschoolers. He has distilled a list of 50 common "rules" (and 5 new bonus rules) that shake the foundations of national education to its core." [See also: http://unschoolingrules.blogspot.com/]
unschooling  books  education  homeschool  learning  parenting  children  schools  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
YouTube - Astra Taylor on the Unschooled Life
"Raised by independent-thinking bohemian parents, Taylor was unschooled until age 13. Join the filmmaker as she shares her personal experiences of growing up home-schooled without a curriculum or schedule, and how it has shaped her educational philosophy and development as an artist."

[Book list mentioned in the intro is here: http://blogs.walkerart.org/ecp/2009/10/14/astra-taylor-on-the-unschooled-life/ ] [Similar interview here: http://citizenshift.org/node/21634&term_tid=100004 ]

[Blogged here: http://robertogreco.tumblr.com/post/1567646430/make-some-time-to-watch-astra-taylor-on-the ]
unschooling  education  homeschool  astrataylor  culture  parenting  learning  deschooling  grades  grading  freeschools  democratic  schools  schooling  pedagogy  families  alternative  agesegregation  linear  informallearning  testing  lcproject  summerhill  mainstream  paulgoodman  jonathankozol  johnholt  georgedennison  growingwithoutschooling  tcsnmy  childcenteredlearning  accreditation  self-education  autodidacts  childhood  adolescence  alfiekohn  glvo  curiosity  compulsory  rousseau  johndewey  creativity  nature  art  admissions  indoctrination  lifelonglearning  self-directedlearning  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
the conversation that never happens « Underbellie [via: http://www.unschoolinglifestyle.com/2010/08/taboo-of-unschooling-success.html]
"Keeping one's children out of school & not imposing home-curriculum is a fringe choice…Given that, I think part of the reason this conversation doesn't happen is many of us prefer to think of fringe people as being wrong. When we see their choices working out well it's a bit uncomfortable. Thus it's much easier to think of my kids or myself as some kind of an exception…The kids are either "bright", or I am a super-hard working mama administrating organized curriculum & have extraordinary "patience" to spend so much of my time w/ my own children (why children are assumed to be such a horrible group of people to be forced to mingle w/ is subject of another article)…<br />
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unschoolers know exactly where B went next…"How long are you planning on keeping them out of school?"…<br />
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if we were to admit that autodidactic children in a loving & secure environment perform very well in aggregate (given nearly any marker of success), we'd have to then question the many tenets of the school model"
glvo  unschooling  deschooling  perception  misconception  fringe  exceptions  education  cv  learning  homeschool  children  parenting  inmyexperience  autodidacts  autodidactism  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Tokyo Shure
"Tokyo Shure was founded in June 1985 while school-refusing children were increasing. Keiko Okuchi founded it as a space where any child can be her/himself and make with support of parents of school refusing children and other citizens. Nowadays, Tokyo Shure is known to as one of the oldest free schools."
japan  education  homeschool  unschooling  deschooling  tokyo  tokyoshure  learning  democratic  freeschools  schools  schooling  testing  competition  competitiveness  alternative  agesegregation  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Weblogg-ed » You Know This is True
"I know lots of parents who aren’t all that thrilled w/ the system but who are assuaged by idea that schools their kids are in will at least push them along to success on traditional path. Opting for something else is just too hard, & to be honest, too “untested.”…<br />
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But this all takes on more relevance in the context of the “What to do About Schools?” conversations that we’ve been enduring the past couple of months. The “problems” we face w/ schools are right now are less about schools themselves & more about lack of vision & fear of change. Put simply, age-grouped, subject-delineated, 8am-2pm, September-June, one-size-fits-all system that we have makes process of education easy. The realities of personal, self-directed, real problem-solving learning in a connected world are anything but.<br />
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Still, the hardest reality right now is that there is no groundswell to do school differently, not just “better.” Seems it’s easy to see a path to “better.” “Different” is just too scary."
willrichardson  schools  education  unschooling  deschooling  homeschool  tcsnmy  change  gamechanging  fear  vision  topost  toshare  schooling  schooliness  stagnation  racetonowhere  parenting  lcproject  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
The Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning (JUAL)
"This journal seeks to bring together an international community of scholars exploring the topic of unschooling and alternative learning, which espouses learner centered democratic approaches to learning. JUAL is also a space to reveal the limitations of mainstream schooling.<br />
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JUAL understands learner centered democratic education as individuals deciding their own curriculum, and participating in the governance of their school-if they are in one. Some examples of learner centered democratic possibilities are unschooling, Sudbury Valley , Fairhaven , the Albany Free School , and the Beach School in Toronto . In terms of unschooling, we view it as a self-directed learning approach to learning outside of the mainstream education rather than homeschooling, which reproduces the learning structures of school in the home."
alternative  deschooling  unschooling  education  learning  homeschool  democratic  lcproject  toread  journals  research  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
YouTube - Future Of Education: Is It Possible To De-School Society? - George Siemens
"Educational technologies expert George Siemens evaluates the differences between the traditional schooling model and an ideal educational model based on personal preferences and student engagement. Is this new educational model the way your kids will be schooled tomorrow or is it just wishful thinking?" [Transcript at: http://www.masternewmedia.org/how-to-design-schools-and-a-new-education-system-for-the-future/]
education  future  georgesiemens  deschooling  unschooling  ivanillich  policy  homeschool  tcsnmy  robingood  lcproject  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
The Way We Live Now - Home-Schooling for the Techno-Literate - NYTimes.com ["Here is the kind of literacy that we tried to impart:…"]
"Every new tech will bite back. The more powerful its gifts, the more powerfully it can be abused. Look for its costs. • Technologies improve so fast you should postpone getting anything you need until last second. Get comfortable w/ fact that anything you buy is already obsolete. • Before you can master device, program or invention, it will be superseded; you will always be beginner. Get good at it. • Be suspicious of any tech that requires walls. If you can fix, modify or hack it, that is a good sign. • The proper response to a stupid tech is to make a better one, just as proper response to stupid idea is not to outlaw it but to replace it w/ better idea. • Every tech is biased by its embedded defaults: what does it assume? • Nobody has any idea of what a new invention will really be good for…crucial question: what happens when everyone has one? • The older the tech, the more likely it will continue to be useful. • Find minimum amount of tech that will maximize your options."
teaching  parenting  literacy  learning  education  technology  kevinkelly  glvo  tcsnmy  obsolescence  homeschool  schools  criticalthinking  utility  unschooling  lcproject  abuse  costs  hackability  modification  fixability  invention  homework  stress  self-directedlearning  autodidacts  learningtolearn  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
patfarenga.com: A Current Famous Unschooler
"current New Yorker (Sept 6)…provides interesting details about how [Francis Collins, manager of The Human Genome Research Institute & current director of the NIH] was raised & unschooled.<br />
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"For Francis, it was an enchanting, if arduous, childhood, part Boy's Life & part Woodstock. He could set a bar door & knew how to predict weather by reading the sky over the distant Alleghennies. He did not see the inside of a schoolroom until 6th grade, because Margaret taught her boys at home. "There was no schedule," Francis recalls. "The idea of Mother having a lesson plan would be just completely laughable. But she would get us excited about trying to learn about a topic that we didn't know much about. & she would pose a question & basically charge you w/ it, using whatever you had—your mind, exploring nature, reading books—to try to figure out, well, what could you learn about that? & you'd keep at it until it just got tiresome. & then she'd always be ready for the next thing.""
franciscollins  science  education  learning  unschooling  homeschool  newyorker  humangenomeresearchinstitute  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Homeschool en Chile - Educación en Casa
homeschool  chile  ning  education  unschooling  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Rick Steves Europe: Travel with Rick Steves: Program Archives
"The Rhine family of Salem, Oregon explains how they came closer together and what they learned while immersing themselves in a variety of cultures. Also, Rick checks in with a Lonely Planet author who has tips on finding the world, and family fun, in Southern California, and listeners send us their haiku about Seattle."
travel  parenting  books  unschooling  homeschool  children  learning  education  ricksteves  socal  california  losangeles  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Unschooling : The Movie by Lee Stranahan — Kickstarter
"Unschooling : The Movie is a fun and informative documentary about a radical idea - that the best education for kids can come without any formal education at all. The film features extensive interviews with unschooling parents and children with a special emphasis on the groundbreaking work and ideas of unschooling advocate Sandra Dodd.
unschooling  homeschool  children  education  parenting  kickstarter  documentary 
july 2010 by robertogreco
patfarenga.com - Sweden Bans Homeschooling: What would Pippi Longstocking say?
"The fierce independence and unconventional philosophical views of Pippi Longstocking, one of Sweden's most famous fictional characters and an autodidact, certainly seem diminished in light of this law. Indeed, a modern-day Pippi would have to flee to a country with more educational and personal freedom than Sweden in order to have her adventures now. Perhaps we should encourage all homeschoolers to boycott travel and goods from Sweden until they allow families the educational freedom to raise and teach their children in accordance with their religious and philosophical views?"
sweden  law  patfarenga  pippilongstocking  education  policy  legal  homeschool  schools  learning  autodidacts 
july 2010 by robertogreco
confessions of a Christian homeschooler | Culture | The American Scene
"As I say, we all know the stereotype of the Christian homeschooling parent, and of course stereotypes arise for a reason; but I wonder how many people there are out there like us, people who got into homeschooling through unexpected contingency, not because they have some kind of principled objection to secularists corrupting their children. Maybe there are more such people than we suspect." [An intesting comment thread follows.]
homeschool  alanjacobs  education  learning  schools  children  parenting  unschooling  glvo  relgion  publicschools 
june 2010 by robertogreco
a homeschooler's bleg | Culture | The American Scene
"As some of you know, my wife and I teach our son Wes at home, mostly, which means that each summer we have to spend a good deal of time planning what we’re going to do in the coming year. He’s headed into the eleventh grade, and while his education so far has given him a sound overview of Western cultural history, we’re concerned that he hasn’t had enough experience digging deeply into particular issues, doing wide-ranging research and coming up with sophisticated theses based on what he has learned. So we’ve decided to organize the coming school year around particular topics with interdisciplinary facets to them, starting in each case with one or two books that will in different ways orient him to the issues. Our focus will be on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the West, though any non-Western topics could reach back farther."
education  history  homeschool  ideas  schools  teaching  tcsnmy  learning  depth  via:lukeneff  alanjacobs 
june 2010 by robertogreco
patfarenga.com: Helping older homeschoolers learn to read
"As Dr. Raymond Moore noted in his work in the seventies and eighties, and as Dr. Alan Thomas noted in his work in 2007, homeschooled children who are late readers learn to read quite well when they eventually do learn to read. Once they decide to learn to read, they learn quickly, catching up to their age-mates reading abilities in months, not years. Further, children who haven’t been forced to read by 3rd grade also appear to read more for personal pleasure and information as they get older than do those who were forced to learn to read at a particular age."
raymondmoore  patfarenga  reading  learning  literacy  readiness  homeschool  unschooling 
june 2010 by robertogreco
Kids Learn Math Easily When They Control Their Own Learning | Psychology Today
"The best evidence I know that math is not hard comes from the experiences of people involved in the unschooling movement and the Sudbury "nonschool" school movement. I have written about these movements in previous posts. Unschoolers are homeschooling families that do not provide a curriculum for their kids or evaluate their learning in any formal way. Sudbury schools are those that are modeled after the Sudbury Valley School, where kids of all ages are free all day to interact with whomever they choose and pursue their own interests. Unschoolers and Sudbury schoolers defy our cultural beliefs about what kids must do to succeed in our society. All available evidence shows that the kids in these settings grow up to become happy, productive, ethical members of the larger society, who continue to take charge of their own lives and learning throughout adulthood (for references to research on Sudbury Valley graduates, see my post of Aug. 13, 2008)."
math  mathematics  learning  children  schools  education  unschooling  sudburyschools  noschool  research  homeschool  glvo  tcsnmy  lcproject 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Martinez on how Homeschooling fits into the Learning Economy « Homeschooling Research Notes
"As a professor in a department whose job is to prepare public school teachers, I can say with certainty that this is not at all what we’re preparing our students for. I think Martinez’ idea of the certified professional who works with clients (parents) to help them customize the best education for their children using every possible resource available is wonderful, but it’s a radical departure from what is being done today in schools of education. Absent any sort of formal training or certification program for the expertise Martinez envisions, the most qualified candidate for education “DJ” in my mind is the homeschooling mother who’s been at it for a long time. Veteran homeschoolers, especially those who have compiled newsletters or spear-headed cooperatives, know the local “learning economy” better than anybody."
education  homeschool  unschooling  deschooling  future  schools  parenting  lcproject 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Personal Learning Ecologies - 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning
"Families look outside the traditional “system” to create ecologies of learning experiences. Families will leverage the emerging learning economy to cultivate their own ecologies of learning resources. School will be part of this ecology, but it will play different roles for different families, and it won’t be the only player in the wider learning ecosystem.
education  learning  unschooling  deschooling  homeschool  future  schools  networkedlearning  networking  lcproject  tcsnmy 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Increasing Number Of Parents Opting To Have Children School-Homed | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
"According to a report released Monday by the U.S. Department of Education, an increasing number of American parents are choosing to have their children raised at school rather than at home.
homeschool  parenting  theonion  humor  education  schools  satire 
march 2010 by robertogreco
When Less is More: The Case for Teaching Less Math in Schools | Psychology Today
"Think of it. Today whenever we hear that children aren't learning much of what is taught in school the hue and cry from the educational establishment is that we must therefore teach more of it! If two hundred hours of instruction on subject X does no good, well, let's try four hundred hours. If children aren't learning what is taught to them in first grade, then let's start teaching it in kindergarten. And if they aren't learning it in kindergarten, that could only mean that we need to start them in pre-kindergarten! But Benezet had the opposite opinion. If kids aren't learning much math in the early grades despite considerable time and effort devoted to it, then why waste time and effort on it?" [More on the L. P. Benezet experiment]
mathematics  math  teaching  psychology  philosophy  parenting  unschooling  academia  children  development  education  homeschool  learning  petergray  deschooling  us  research  lcproject  tcsnmy 
march 2010 by robertogreco
The Dropout Economy -10 Ideas for the Next 10 Years- Printout - TIME
"Imagine a future in which millions of families live off grid, powering homes & vehicles w/ dirt-cheap portable fuel cells. As industrial agriculture sputters under strain of spiraling costs of water, gasoline & fertilizer, networks of farmers using sophisticated technique...build an alternative food-distribution system. Faced w/ burden of financing decades-long retirement of aging boomers, many of young embrace new underground economy, largely untaxed archipelago of communes, co-ops, & kibbutzim that passively resist power of granny state while building own little utopias.
libertarianism  unschooling  deschooling  glvo  cities  change  education  employment  freegans  resilience  government  economics  jobs  technology  culture  future  community  recession  politics  dropouts  homeschool  tcsnmy  individualism  gamechanging  nomads  neo-nomads  offgrid 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Unschooling | Facebook
unschooling  facebook  quotes  deschooling  learning  education  lcproject  homeschool 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Our Report Card
"We had children & became unschoolers. We teach [them] how to find information. We teach them that info & skills are choices as much as talents. You choose info, you choose tools, & you often choose your skill. Skill generally being a matter of practice. Not completely, but generally.
capitalism  information  learning  unschooling  deschooling  education  homeschool  tcsnmy  mit  informationage  freedom  sharing  scarcity  society  narcissism  sklls  tools  lcproject  parenting  glvo 
february 2010 by robertogreco
The Teaching of Arithmetic I: The Story of an experiment [via: http://twitter.com/alfiekohn/status/8542918594 AND http://twitter.com/alfiekohn/status/8542940942]
"In the spring of 1929...Frank D. Boynton, superintendent of schools at Ithaca, NY sent to a number of his friends & brother superintendents an article on a modern public-school program. His thesis was that we are constantly being asked to add new subjects to the curriculum [safety instruction, health instruction, thrift instruction, and the like], but that no one ever suggests that we eliminate anything. His paper closed with a challenge which seemed to say, "I defy you to show me how we can cut out any of this material...we waste much time in the elementary schools, wrestling with stuff that ought to be omitted or postponed until children are in need of studying it...omit arithmetic from the first six grades...nonsense to take eight years to get children thru the ordinary arithmetic assignment of the elementary schools. The whole subject of arithmetic could be postponed until the 7th year of school & could be mastered in 2 years' study by any normal child."
education  homeschool  philosophy  math  unschooling  deschooling  tcsnmy  alternative  arithmetic  cgimath  experiment  1929  language  teaching  learning  children  development 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Homeschooled Faces
"I am a mother to four, living, loving, and unschooling in New Jersey. I am passionate about photography and homeschooling plus a few other things;) I've created this space to share with you the many wondrous faces of homeschooling. If you live in or around North Jersey and are interested in participating in this project, please contact me at homeschoolfaces@gmail.com."
photodocumentary  photography  homeschool  unschooling  blogs 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Who developed Tumblr - Technologies for Teaching and Learning - Confluence
"When David Karp was 15, he dropped out of high school to be homeschooled on New York's Upper West Side. At 17, he moved to Tokyo to work for UrbanBaby, an online parenting advice site with highly trafficked message boards full of urban-dwelling moms and dads. And when he was 20, he founded Tumblr, a Web platform inspired by the tumblelog, a blog format which enables short-form, mixed-media posts. All of this without ever attending college -- as Karp says, he's just waiting on his honorary degree. Karp wanted to share his life instantaneously, and without the time commitment required of other blogging platforms. More than that, he wanted others to experience the satisfyingly speedy genesis of tumblelog posts."
davidcarp  tumblr  homeschool  education  autodidacts  entrepreneurship  learning  deschooling  unschooling 
january 2010 by robertogreco
How To Design Schools And A New Education System For The Future: A Video Interview With George Siemens
"How can you and I de-instititutionalize schools? Is there a way to conceive the idea of teaching outside the classrooms without disrupting the entire society?"..."all of our society is structured to institutionalize our experiences. Work institutionalizes us. There is the odd person who can take what you have done & sort of make your own freedom & do your own work, but most people...we move into an institution for employment, we move into an institution for health-care need, we move into an institution for schooling needs...What happens is you cannot then just stop & break one part of your life apart & not institutionalize it...I cannot just say to my daughter: "Do not go to school, hang out with me for a day." It would be a great model, we could spend time, she could ask questions, I could engage, I can give her learning activities. The problem is: my work is institutionalized. My work would say: "No, you cannot"...The problem is...a sort of integration and connectedness."
georgesiemens  robingood  deschooling  unschooling  homeschool  lcproject  tcsnmy  schools  schooling  alternative  future  technology  connectivism  education  learning  children  ivanillich  society  institutions  structure 
december 2009 by robertogreco
Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education | Psychology Today
Forced education interferes with children's abilities to educate themselves... 1. Denial of liberty on the basis of age. 2. Fostering of shame, on the one hand, and hubris, on the other. 3. Interference with the development of cooperation and nurturance. 4. Interference with the development of personal responsibility and self-direction. 5. Linking of learning with fear, loathing, and drudgery. 6. Inhibition of critical thinking. 7. Reduction in diversity of skills, knowledge, and ways of thinking."
education  psychology  learning  unschooling  reform  deschooling  freedom  schooling  schools  self-directedlearning  responsibility  compulsory  petergray  highered  academia  homeschool  pedagogy  prison  cooperation  teaching 
october 2009 by robertogreco
Matt Hern 2005 AERO Keynote Video: Possibility in the Face of Probability « Education Revolution
matthern  education  deschooling  unschooling  learning  lcproject  homeschool  alternative  alted  teaching  youth  teens  society 
october 2009 by robertogreco
Confessions of a home-schooler | Salon Life
"For reasons I can about halfway understand, other parents often seem to feel attacked by our eccentric choices. ... Some people seem genuinely disturbed by our decision, on philosophical or political grounds, as if by keeping a couple of 5-year-olds out of kindergarten we have violated the social contract. Specifically, we have rejected the mainstream consensus that since education is a good thing, more of it -- more formal, more "academic," reaching ever deeper into early childhood and filling up more of the day and more of the year -- is better for society and better for all children. This is almost an article of faith in contemporary America, but it's also one that's debatable at best and remains largely unsupported by research data...some people suspect we have a hidden ideological or religious agenda we're not telling them about." One page: http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/09/28/confessions_homeschooler/print.html
homeschool  unschooling  education  parenting  glvo  cv  schools  society  defensiveness  nonconformism  anarchism  summerhill 
october 2009 by robertogreco
Homeschool Resource Centers (free video!) « Education Revolution
"A DVD of a homeschool resource centers featuring the Snakefoot Education Center, at Common Ground Community. This is a group of families that created a center in which 15 homeschooled children meet three times a week. They also hired a resource person. Also highlights of Puget Sound Community school, & Clearwater School in Seattle."
pugetsoundcommunityschool  homeschool  lcproject  unschooling  deschooling  schools  video  pscs 
october 2009 by robertogreco
Khan Academy [via: http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/2009/09/khan-academy---your-next-high-school---free-on-your-terms.html]
"The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere.
education  learning  free  homeschool  economics  teaching  science  math  algebra  mathematics  geometry  trigonometry  physics  tutorials  youtube  calculus  online  finance  lectures  khanacademy  tcsnmy  arithmetic 
september 2009 by robertogreco
School's Out: Get ready for the new age of individualized education - Reason Magazine
"The Homogenizing Hopper...The Home-Schooling Revolution...Free Agent Teaching...The End of High School...A renaissance of apprenticeships...A flowering of teenage entrepreneurship...A greater diversity of academic courses...A boom of national service...A backlash against standards...The Unschooling of Adults...The devaluation of degrees...Older students...Free agent teaching...Big trouble for elite colleges...Learning groupies"
danielpink  education  learning  2001  freedom  unschooling  deschooling  schools  schooling  tcsnmy  autodidactism  future  homeschool  reform  curriculum  motivation  choice  change  gamechanging  freelance  freelanceteaching  freelanceeducation  freelancing  colleges  universities  economics  history  demographics  work  careers  entrepreneurship  apprenticeships  lcproject  standards  testing  alternative 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Education Needs to Be Turned on Its Head
"People often grow up to be competent learners, and achieve great things, after going through the traditional school system. But this is in spite of the system, not because of it. We are pretty adaptable people, inherently curious, and we can learn without an authority, but the current school system tries to beat this down. It usually fails to some degree, but to the degree it succeeds, it harms people.
education  learning  children  future  teaching  innovation  unschooling  reform  philosophy  pedagogy  thinking  training  deschooling  homeschool  gamechanging  tcsnmy  authoritarianism  authority  control  zenhabits  parenting 
september 2009 by robertogreco
How I discovered my Secret Powers PART THREE (an essay in several parts), by Keri Smith | Penguin Blog (USA) - Penguin Group (USA)
"And then I had a thought...What if everything I had been taught about myself in school was wrong? What if the opposite of everything was true? What if I had the power to create anything that I conceived of? What if the world was magic and I was able to see things that others could not for a reason?..."Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned." -John Holt
kerismith  books  creativity  imagination  education  alternative  independence  unschooling  deschooling  schooling  johnholt  reading  literacy  ideas  depression  homeschool  curiosity  autodidacts  art  glvo  tcsnmy 
september 2009 by robertogreco
How I discovered my Secret Powers PART TWO (an essay in several parts), by Keri Smith | Penguin Blog (USA) - Penguin Group (USA)
"When I was in kindergarten my parents were called in by the teacher for a "meeting." She had a bucket full of rolled up drawings done by me. She pulled them out and unrolled them one by one. Each page had a drawing of a square house with three windows and a door, an apple tree, and a few clouds scattered about. They were all identical. The teacher expressed concern at my lack of originality.
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september 2009 by robertogreco
How I discovered my Secret Powers (an essay in several parts), by Keri Smith | Penguin Blog (USA) - Penguin Group (USA)
"I began to see that my perception of the world was different than the other kids, and that school was largely about making the teacher happy, and had little to do with actual learning. One of my early school memories is me at the age of six noticing that the other kids were getting attention from the teacher because they were struggling with reading. I had learned to read at age four and found all the reading material too easy. Feeling left out I decided to choose a random word and go up to the teacher and ask the pronunciation just so I could have her notice me. The word was "sandwich". The teacher looked surprised at my asking."
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august 2009 by robertogreco
Homeschool Style Bytes - Homeschool. Style. Bytes. - a homeschool recipe
Sound advice from Jodi Anderson: "Know your state laws and know them well...Find out how your child learns best...Trust your instincts about your child, but be open to the idea that people change...Be willing to take advantage of not just books, but many forms of media...Volunteer to both help and learn...Let your children try various activities ... AND LET THEM QUIT if they don't like it...trust your instincts. You probably know your child best and if you listen to them, have conversations, offer opportunities, and go with your gut...We all make mistakes. Don't sweat the small stuff. As we've said for decades, "Keep calm and carry on""
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august 2009 by robertogreco
Back to School ** @ AMERICAN DIGEST [via: http://joannejacobs.com/2009/08/22/school-days-and-years/]
"if we try to...see it...from the point of view of the 5th-grade boy flat on his back in the living room staring at the ceiling in utter despair...Still, that's your entry level position in the educational-industrial complex at age 3. It's all downhill from there. For years you get up at an ungodly hour & don't even get a chance to read the paper. Plus, no coffee at all...Once you do get to the office, your time to just goof off is extremely limited. No leisurely stints by the water cooler...No coffee cart with tasty pastries coming by...Bladder issue? Raise your hand & get a note. Other than that you are never alone...You have no veto whatsoever over your co-workers, your working conditions, your hours, or your choice of when to do what tasks. Everyone does the same tasks at the same time for 55 minutes & then it is on to something new. Did I mention the fact that you can't quit? If you try to quit they send the Gestapo to your home & track you down and haul you back."
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august 2009 by robertogreco
Book Review: ‘The Ascent of George Washington’ - WSJ.com
"He had taken what nature had given him"—a robust native intelligence, a strong will & a commanding physical presence—"& through ­observation, self-scrutiny, thoughtfulness, perseverance, & industry reached a point that others saw him as a potential leader." Quite an attainment for a relatively poor, untraveled & totally self-educated younger son of a minor planter, although Mr. Ferling thinks that lucky timing had a lot to do with it. Washington...was "precisely the right age for every epic event of the 2nd half of the 18th century." But so were countless other people born in 1732, only to live & die in obscurity. Consider the crop of egomaniacal liberators & revolutionary ­heroes-turned-caudillos who soon afterward made a mess of Latin America—not to mention Napoleon, whose infatuation with his own destiny led to European tyranny & slaughter on an epic scale—& the conclusion is inescapable. Revolutionary-era America was lucky to have George Washington, not the other way around.
georgewashington  timing  us  history  self-education  homeschool  autodidacts  leadership  latinamerica  serendipity  luck  observation  self-scrutiny  perseverance 
august 2009 by robertogreco
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