OK, so following on from my previous post, I have been surfing the web and following rabbit-trails on technology and education.
Take a look at the following video, and consider these questions: are the issues being raised in the video relevant to home education or not (and if not, why not), if they are relevant, how do we address them? If our children are learning autonomously, how does that figure in - how and where do we draw the boundaries, keep them safe, ensure that if they choose to game, facebook, blog, twitter or whatever (and apologies to conservative grammatists there for my verbal use of 'game' and 'facebook' there!), that they are getting something educational out of it or should we be encouraging a balance between all this and learning in more traditional ways?
Our eldest (9) has an old second hand Gameboy advance and a few games to go with it. At Christmas we found him an educational encyclopedia sort of program for the Gameboy! We got it since it would allow him to find information he was looking for useing technology, while still staying safe (no www connection). I think there are ways to let kids look into things using technology, but still teach them how to use the dewy decimal system in the library! Many kids I know haven't got a clue how to find a book in there! They only use the library for computer use!!!! We need to find a balance.
Hi Shoshana!
If you click back from this comment you'll find my blog on which I've gone into some depth on our trip to Canada. We had a wonderful time - loved it! Fantastic that there are now about 300 members - that's great!
God bless you!
Sarah
We are UK home educators, using an ecclectic mixture of resources, leaning towards unschooling, with some Charlotte Mason principles, Classical, Sonlight curriculum, lapbooking, unit studies/ themes/ projects and much more besides.
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