Re: [AlwaysLearning] Digest Number 229
KT
>I already have Autodidact Asylum. Did I say that on here already?
>
>Another list has been discussing the names people give their homeschools;
>I'm thinking of changing ours to the Apophatic Autodidactic Academy. Think
>of the logo possibilities, with all those A's!
>
>Nancy
>
Tuck
Sharon Rudd
> >Another list has been discussing the names peopleSharon of the Swamp
> give their homeschools;
> >I'm thinking of changing ours to the Apophatic
> Autodidactic Academy. Think
> >of the logo possibilities, with all those A's!
> >
> >Nancy
> >
>
> I already have Autodidact Asylum. Did I say that on
> here already?
>
> Tuck
>>>>>>>>>>>>.
> Yes.....shows it was a good idea
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In a message dated 2/13/2002 11:31:56 AM Pacific Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
to be reading aloud all the time, some kind of project to be working on, and
someplace to go.
So - this is how I imagine this happening:
Pat: "Hey, girls, wanna get a movie?"
Girls: "What movie?"
Pat: "I've heard that xyz movie is good, wanna try that one?"
Girls: "No - we want to watch The Little Mermaid."
Pat: "Well - we've seen that one 48 times, maybe we could try a new one?"
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[email protected] writes:
> I could choose a project a week (of course only if they girls areHow about a plan that says the girls and I will choose a movie a week, a book
> interested) and a field trip a month to offer to the kids. That would be a
> plan :-) ahhhh a plan! And somewhere in there I should fit a movie, I
> think. ?????
>
> I know this sounds stupid to people that this stuff flows for but this is
> me. I need a plan.
>
> Is this still unschooling? When would I be crossing the line?
to be reading aloud all the time, some kind of project to be working on, and
someplace to go.
So - this is how I imagine this happening:
Pat: "Hey, girls, wanna get a movie?"
Girls: "What movie?"
Pat: "I've heard that xyz movie is good, wanna try that one?"
Girls: "No - we want to watch The Little Mermaid."
Pat: "Well - we've seen that one 48 times, maybe we could try a new one?"
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[email protected]
Aaaaaargh - that sent right in the middle of me writing it --
I have a new keyboard and there is SOME keyboard combination that I'm
accidentally hitting that is just sending - and I type really fast and can't
figure out what it is.....
anyway - I left you in the middle of Pat and her girls discussing a movie <G>
.
Pat: "We've seen The Little Mermaid" 48 times already."
Girls: "Yeah - we want to see it AGAAAAAIN!!!!!"
Pat: "Okay - let's get that and something else that I pick."
So - you get a movie YOU want to watch with them. First you watch their
choice and then later you put yours on. You don't make them watch it. You
invite them. If they don't take you up on it YOU watch it anyway and enjoy it
yourself. There will be a million chances for them to watch a movie. THIS is
a chance for them to exercise some decisionmaking - and to make their own
choices. That is just as important (more) than any movie they could watch and
you'd destroy that by insisting they watch it.
I think you might want to focus more on some more subtle types of learning
than the obvious "information" type of learning, Pat.
Think about underlying "lessons" being picked up.
If YOU come up with the plans for what they should learn - even if you do it
nicely - you are teaching them that they need someone else to plan their
lives for them. But what you want (I think) is for them to develop the
knowledge that they are responsible for their own life and learning. Examine
everything you do with the question in mind: "Does this undermine or support
my really important objectives?"
--pamS
I have a new keyboard and there is SOME keyboard combination that I'm
accidentally hitting that is just sending - and I type really fast and can't
figure out what it is.....
anyway - I left you in the middle of Pat and her girls discussing a movie <G>
.
Pat: "We've seen The Little Mermaid" 48 times already."
Girls: "Yeah - we want to see it AGAAAAAIN!!!!!"
Pat: "Okay - let's get that and something else that I pick."
So - you get a movie YOU want to watch with them. First you watch their
choice and then later you put yours on. You don't make them watch it. You
invite them. If they don't take you up on it YOU watch it anyway and enjoy it
yourself. There will be a million chances for them to watch a movie. THIS is
a chance for them to exercise some decisionmaking - and to make their own
choices. That is just as important (more) than any movie they could watch and
you'd destroy that by insisting they watch it.
I think you might want to focus more on some more subtle types of learning
than the obvious "information" type of learning, Pat.
Think about underlying "lessons" being picked up.
If YOU come up with the plans for what they should learn - even if you do it
nicely - you are teaching them that they need someone else to plan their
lives for them. But what you want (I think) is for them to develop the
knowledge that they are responsible for their own life and learning. Examine
everything you do with the question in mind: "Does this undermine or support
my really important objectives?"
--pamS
Pat Cald...
From: PSoroosh@...
I actually feel depressed if I don't have a sense of purpose in my life. Unfortunately, because of the way I was raised, purpose only comes from doing not being. I have not laid that one on my kids, thank goodness, but I don't think I will ever be able to change myself.
Pat
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>How about a plan that says the girls and I will choose a movie a week, a bookI like this a lot. This way I can plan - I like planning. I'm not inflexible at all with my plans but they help me have a sense of purpose which is a must.
>to be reading aloud all the time, some kind of project to be working on, and
>someplace to go.
I actually feel depressed if I don't have a sense of purpose in my life. Unfortunately, because of the way I was raised, purpose only comes from doing not being. I have not laid that one on my kids, thank goodness, but I don't think I will ever be able to change myself.
Pat
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[email protected]
In a message dated 2/14/2002 1:15:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,
homeschoolmd@... writes:
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homeschoolmd@... writes:
> I have not laid that one on my kids, thank goodness, but I don't think IIf you think you can or if you think you can't: you are right.
> will ever be able to change myself.
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