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...and a great definition of unschooling, and something new on morning glories.
Those who read AlwaysLearning have already seen it.
I was criticized and defended.
http://sandradodd.com/feedback
A reminder about making gradual changes (new page)
http://sandradodd.com/gradualchange
What isn't unschooling? (new page)
http://sandradodd.com/unschool/marginal
The best summary of unschooling I've ever seen, added to the right here:
http://sandradodd.com/unschool/definition
A video (I didn't make it) of how morning glories twine, added here (thanks, Rue!)
http://sandradodd.com/morningglories
I realize I've had lots of updates in the past week. It won't last. For a while, I was only working on SCA pages. I'm going to Arizona on the weekend to speak in Tempe (http://www.hena.us/conference.html)so for a few days I won't be online at all. Don't be afraid that I'll send this many updates all the time.
The photo is by Holly. She put it on my MySpace.
Thanks for reading!
Sandra
I was browsing through Moving a Puddle because Holly's reading some of it for the first time, and a friend of hers might be reading it. I found an error.
"Damn it!" I said to no one. Marty came in.
"What?"
"A typo. Well, not a typo. An editing error." I read it to him. It's on page 42
In a very kind voice Marty said, "Well your life will be over soon and you won't have to worry about it."
"Thanks!" I said brightly, and I meant it, because honestly—how much do I beat myself about something that two editors missed and I missed and that doesn't harm anyone's safety or progress?
Marty said "I'm just here to help." But honestly he did help.
My big error is in having adverbs which should've been changed to adjectives when I re-wrote some part of that middle phrase:
It’s about how people learn—how easily and effortlessly natural learning is, and how difficult-to-impossible “formal education” is compared to the real learning that goes on every day of a person’s life.DOH! should be "easy and effortless"
Interesting fallacies on dyslexia added here, about the fourth item:
http://sandradodd.com/myths
It was sent for this page, so I'm going to link them both:
http://sandradodd.com/ifilet
Even though nothing's new there, some of you might not have seen it (or not lately).
A pair of articles got separated in space and time but are together and more easily available.
"To be Fascinating at Cocktail Parties" and "To Get More Jokes" are
http://sandradodd.com/connections/cocktail
http://sandradodd.com/connections/jokes
New intro/comment on the John Holt index page:
http://sandradodd.com/johnholt
New movie recommendations at the top:
http://sandradodd.com/t/movies
and reminder of the page
MOVIES AS A PLAYGROUND, as tools, as portals ... sharing movies with our kids
http://sandradodd.com/movies
Amanda documented her "explore" on the history of TV on the Always Learning list, and I saved it here:
http://sandradodd.com/t/history
Some diseases you and your children might have. Bummer.
http://thinkingsticks.blogspot.com/2008/02/drapetomania-school-refusal-and.html
A dozen new quotes have been added to the rotation here:
http://sandradodd.com/unschooling
A new article is linked here:
http://unschooling.blogspot.com
I've started a page for the general question of "what about the violence?" and it will have more links soon, but for now I wanted to list it for the sake of the art, done by Bo King who also did the trees on my unschooling index page.
http://sandradodd.com/violence
Homeschooling will soon be better known in France, thanks to an unschooler named Sylvia Martin-Rodriguez. Please look here
http://unschooling.blogspot.com/2008/02/france-sylvie-martin-rodriguezs-book.html to see the cover of her soon-to-be-released book.
Links to translated articles are here: SandraDodd.com/french. Those won't be in the book, but are on a website maintained by Sylvie and her friend Jeanine Barbé, at which there are some other translations of English-language unschooling articles.
New piece at "Getting It"
http://sandradodd.com/unschool/gettingit (upper right)
"Unschooling is giving me a chance to reflect on my own life as well as seeing the changes in my daughter. We spend a lot of time together, and there are days we still have our little difficulties. I just never knew that I had to change as much or even more than she had to change." —Wanda (in North Carolina, writing on the Unschooling.info/forum)
There's more before and after that, of Wanda's epiphany, which came from some unschooling and some re-reading of John Holt!
Sandra
http://sandradodd.com/testing/teens
New page with accounts of a few problems teens have had with testing. From these stories, you can advise your own teens when a test situation comes along, perhaps.
The page has been linked three places:
http://sandradodd.com/testing
http://sandradodd.com/teen
http://sandradodd.com/teens
It might seem a symptom of disorganization that I have a page called "teen" and one called "teens."
It might be, but they're so different I wouldn't know which one to abandon, and I like the pictures, and people guess at pages, so it's fine with me that they're both there. I'm sorry for those who twitch at redundancy.
In the side-column to the left I've added a quote generator, but the quotes are fairly generic. They're standard advice from the UnschoolingDiscussion list and the AlwaysLearning list (and others). Some are specific to people (Pam Sorooshian's "nest," Joyce Fetteroll's "Yes" and my "strewing"), and they're all easily discovered by anyone wanting to read more by searching here:
sandradodd.com/search