First Week
luvthesoap
This week is the first week on unschooling. All my son wanted to do was to play video games & get on facebook. Well, he did go to the fitness center today & work out for an hour. Tuesdays he has voice lessons, which went well according to his instructor. We also went to Co-Op Thursday. The classes he takes are Guitar, Photography, & PE. The lessons go alright, but on the times he's home, he's basically doing nothing. We are enrolled in an umbrella school & I'm having a hard time writing down what he does all day. Any suggestions?
Betty Porter in KY
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Sandra Dodd
-=-The lessons go alright, but on the times he's home, he's basically
doing nothing.-=-
Lessons aren't unschooling.
-=- All my son wanted to do was to play video games & get on facebook.
-=-
Video games and facebook aren't "nothing."
http://sandradodd.com/videogames
http://sandradodd.com/focus
http://sandradodd.com/obsessions/feedpassions
http://sandradodd.com/new
Sandra
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doing nothing.-=-
Lessons aren't unschooling.
-=- All my son wanted to do was to play video games & get on facebook.
-=-
Video games and facebook aren't "nothing."
http://sandradodd.com/videogames
http://sandradodd.com/focus
http://sandradodd.com/obsessions/feedpassions
http://sandradodd.com/new
Sandra
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Joyce Fetteroll
On Sep 11, 2009, at 8:57 PM, luvthesoap wrote:
either by you or by time constraints, before he can let go he needs
to fill up on them and needs to feel like if he turns something off
he can go back to it as soon as he wants to.
Also read Sandra's page and the links on deschooling:
http://sandradodd.com/deschooling
There's also way more to videogames and Facebook than what you're
assuming. Have you done either? That will make them easier to
describe *and*, even better, give you a connection with your son.
Are you providing too much to your co-op? Or are they requiring too
much? Or are you expecting learning to look a certain way? All of
those will get in the way of his learning. You may want to rethink
and reinvestigate what you're doing.
This isn't a good forum for details of a state's (or co-op's) rules
since it's an international list. Try:
http://sandradodd.com/world#us
Also try typing your state into the search at:
http://familyrun.ning.com/groups
to see if someone made a group.
Schools are constrained to teaching methods which provide feedback
that something is sticking long enough to be tested. The feedback is
not part of learning. The feedback, in many cases, not only
interferes with learning but prevents schools from using methods that
are natural to the way humans learn. You might try reading:
"Products" of Education
http://sandradodd.com/joyce/products
Why You Can't Let Go
http://sandradodd.com/joyce/talk
Joyce
> All my son wanted to do was to play video games & get on facebook.Undoubtedly he's deschooling. If those two were limited in the past,
either by you or by time constraints, before he can let go he needs
to fill up on them and needs to feel like if he turns something off
he can go back to it as soon as he wants to.
Also read Sandra's page and the links on deschooling:
http://sandradodd.com/deschooling
There's also way more to videogames and Facebook than what you're
assuming. Have you done either? That will make them easier to
describe *and*, even better, give you a connection with your son.
> he did go to the fitness center today & work out for an hour.That's a lot for writing down purposes.
> Tuesdays he has voice lessons, which went well according to his
> instructor. We also went to Co-Op Thursday. The classes he takes
> are Guitar, Photography, & PE.
>
Are you providing too much to your co-op? Or are they requiring too
much? Or are you expecting learning to look a certain way? All of
those will get in the way of his learning. You may want to rethink
and reinvestigate what you're doing.
This isn't a good forum for details of a state's (or co-op's) rules
since it's an international list. Try:
http://sandradodd.com/world#us
Also try typing your state into the search at:
http://familyrun.ning.com/groups
to see if someone made a group.
Schools are constrained to teaching methods which provide feedback
that something is sticking long enough to be tested. The feedback is
not part of learning. The feedback, in many cases, not only
interferes with learning but prevents schools from using methods that
are natural to the way humans learn. You might try reading:
"Products" of Education
http://sandradodd.com/joyce/products
Why You Can't Let Go
http://sandradodd.com/joyce/talk
Joyce