Category: Homeschooling
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Teaching programming to children
Kids tend to become interested in programming through being consumers. So it’s likely that if your child expresses interest in programming, it will be such activities as making app’s for the iPod or becoming a computer game programmer. The problem is, those are not really attainable as first goals, and trying to attain them too…
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Harvest
Lots of schools have harvest festivals, but the best way you can connect your kids to the rhythms of the earth is to take part in the dance. At our house, this happens in a variety of ways. We went on a lovely school fieldtrip to Live Earth Farm. We’ve gone there before, and I…
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Homeschooling – past and present
I was working on an article about “back to homeschooling” for Growing Up in Santa Cruz (read it!), and in the midst of corresponding with representatives of the wide range of local homeschoolers, I came across yet another incendiary piece on the web about how awful homeschooling is, how it’s damaging children, killing public education,…
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Talking about blogging
Sunday I gave a workshop about blogging to a bunch of homeschool parents at the HSC Conference. About half of the people in the room already had blogs; the other half were thinking about it. Some really interesting questions came up regarding what a blog is, why you would do it, who is it for……
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Notes from the conference, day 2
This is my day off at the HSC Homeschooling Conference. Tomorrow I’ll be working again. But until then, I play… I got to hear an inspiring talk by Linda Dobson, who homeschooled back before there was the Internet, even. I have to say, when I think about trying to educate kids with a library card…