So, you are teaching your child at home this year. This might be a good time to step back from what you think education is and reassess. Often when schools are put into a bind, they fall back on packets. Worksheet after worksheet, hour after hour of the dullest of all possible ways to learn. Students are given credit if they "do the work". Is this really learning? Is this really education? Can you really say this is okay?
Picture if you will stacks and stacks of paper, and a student sitting for hours reading, filling in answers, circling A, B, C, or D. Is this what education really is? Are you going to accept this definition of education from people who think the number of hours your child spends in a seat is a measure of their worthiness to receive credit for attending school?
If you are a sensible person, your answer should be "no".
I always wondered, when schools used "seat time" as a requirement for credit, what part of the child the powers-that-be thought we were educating.
I am frankly a fan of technology, but it is a tool. Like other tools, there are proper ways to use it. Online learning should not simply be an electronic form of the packet. This video is intended as an introduction to some of the things parents should be thinking about as they educate their children at home. In 2020, millions of children found themselves doing distance learning - which doesn't have to be a bad thing. In fact, if done well, there are many benefits to teaching your child at home.
Moving forward, this site will be adding to resources, videos, blog posts, and other things intended to help both parents and teachers as the way we school our children changes. If you have particular questions you would like to have addressed, please leave a message below and I will do my best to respond to you as quickly as possible.
Picture if you will stacks and stacks of paper, and a student sitting for hours reading, filling in answers, circling A, B, C, or D. Is this what education really is? Are you going to accept this definition of education from people who think the number of hours your child spends in a seat is a measure of their worthiness to receive credit for attending school?
If you are a sensible person, your answer should be "no".
I always wondered, when schools used "seat time" as a requirement for credit, what part of the child the powers-that-be thought we were educating.
I am frankly a fan of technology, but it is a tool. Like other tools, there are proper ways to use it. Online learning should not simply be an electronic form of the packet. This video is intended as an introduction to some of the things parents should be thinking about as they educate their children at home. In 2020, millions of children found themselves doing distance learning - which doesn't have to be a bad thing. In fact, if done well, there are many benefits to teaching your child at home.
Moving forward, this site will be adding to resources, videos, blog posts, and other things intended to help both parents and teachers as the way we school our children changes. If you have particular questions you would like to have addressed, please leave a message below and I will do my best to respond to you as quickly as possible.
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