Posts Tagged ‘self-education’
The World is Discovering Autonomous Learning
"Kids learn on the Internet in an autonomous way, by looking around for information they're interested in or connecting with peers who can help them. This is a big departure from how they're asked to learn in most schools, where the teacher is the expert and there's a fixed set of content to master." I, and many other unschooling advocates, [...]
Unschooling Young Person Starting ‘Zine
There is an articulate and passionate self-described "unschooling vegetarian animistic green anarchist hippie child" who blogs. She's starting a 'zine and is looking for contributions. I've just sent her some material. She'd welcome more.
The Not-Doing-To Lifestyle
The idea of life learning (or “unschooling” and its various subsets, as some prefer to label it) is elusively hard to understand. Many people have tried to define the concept and I’ve been observing a variety of discussions on the topic lately. I, too, have tried many times to define and describe it, although when our family was living the [...]
Librarians Are Tech Savvy
Librarians have traditionally (and probably unfairly) had a conservative reputation. But they and their libraries are the best example I can think of for a replacement for schools and their teachers. After all, libraries are publicly-funded learning institutions, open to everyone and mostly free to use…but usage is not compulsory nor monitored [...]