(NOT) watching the news

A video has been added to my page on advantages of avoiding the news.

https://sandradodd.com/news

When the news is bad

photo (a link) by Kinsey Norris

Clarity, English, Repetition

Renee Cabatic's presentation on "Clarity" with the powerpoint images! She talks about seeing clearly, and moves on to the origins and definitions of unschooling.
https://sandradodd.com/renee/clarity

I've added two very short videos (90 seconds, and 55 seconds) to my English page. They're different, and good.
https://sandradodd.com/english/

"The Role of Repetition in Learning, Unschooling and Shaping Identity"
Longer video, two hours, with a transcript I edited myself. Episode 6 of Season 2 of The Ladies Fixing the World (Cecilie Conrad, Sue Elvis and Sandra Dodd)
https://sandradodd.com/repetition

photo (a link) by Karen James

How Unschooling Works

https://sandradodd.com/joyce/how
How Unschooling Works, by Joyce Fetteroll, rescued from an older version of her site

Pam Sorooshian,twenty years ago, refuting a bad characterization of unschooling with "How Learning Works"
http://sandradodd.com/pam/learningworld

That second one has been announced before, but they make an excellent set.

photo (a link) by Julie T

Podcast series I'm part of

"The Ladies Fixing the World" (Season Two)

This podcast is three moms (I'm one) discussing elements of unschooling. The host is Cecilie Conrad (Danish, but traveling with her family, mostly in warm southern Europe), Sue Elvis (in Australia) and me (in the U.S.). You can tell us apart by our accents, so if you watch an episode to see what we look like, podcasts might be enough subsequently.

Nine episodes have been recorded, and three published so far. I added the links to:

https://sandradodd.com/listen/
Spoken Word and Video files
...and have also brought them here.

At the image below, you can listen directly. Here are links to YouTube if you like to see faces.

• S2E1 | Unschooling: A Lifestyle of Curiosity, Flexibility, and Trust


• S2E2 | Unschooling: Trust, Autonomy, and the Realities of Learning


• S2E3 | Unschooling and Connections: How Learning Is All About Creating a Web of Understanding

Purpose, Medieval boy-art

New page on the idea of "purpose"—having purpose, and living with purpose:

https://sandradodd.com/purpose

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"Thinking about Violence" has a NEW sample of what boys doodle in notebooks! (well... it's not "new" but new to that page!)


Sorry I haven't kept up better with announcements of additions to pages. There have been a few, but this one's exciting. More information at

https://sandradodd.com/violence/