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
Joyce Fetteroll found a fun article. It's a review of Steven Johnson's Everything Bad Is Good for You, but is fully informative on its own. Here's a quote and the link is below.
It doesn’t seem right, of course, that watching “24” or playing a video game could be as important cognitively as reading a book. Isn’t the extraordinary success of the “Harry Potter” novels better news for the culture than the equivalent success of “Grand Theft Auto III”? Johnson’s response is to imagine what cultural critics might have said had video games been invented hundreds of years ago, and only recently had something called the book been marketed aggressively to children:Reading books chronically understimulates the senses. Unlike the longstanding tradition of gameplaying—which engages the child in a vivid, three-dimensional world filled with moving images and musical sound-scapes, navigated and controlled with complex muscular movements—books are simply a barren string of words on the page. . . . Books are also tragically isolating. While games have for many years engaged the young in complex social relationships with their peers, building and exploring worlds together, books force the child to sequester him or herself in a quiet space, shut off from interaction with other children. . . .
But perhaps the most dangerous property of these books is the fact that they follow a fixed linear path. You can’t control their narratives in any fashion—you simply sit back and have the story dictated to you. . . . This risks instilling a general passivity in our children, making them feel as though they’re powerless to change their circumstances. Reading is not an active, participatory process; it’s a submissive one.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/05/16/050516crbo_books
I've added that to my video games page:
http://sandradodd.com/videogames
I've changed the name of the topics blog to "Playing with Ideas," and the current topic has to do with counting sheep, historically, traditionally, and can lead in as many directions as you help me take it!
http://thinkingsticks.blogspot.com/2008/01/score-and-counting-sheep-in-prehistoric.html
Anyone having trouble with the concept of "strewing" might be helped by those topics, and those who are totally into strewing already should have fun!
Walls, as a new topic.
Here's how "walls" got there: I wanted to see if there's been any commentary "out there" about a radio interview I did lately, so I went to look. Didn't find any, but found some mentions of me or quotes on other people's sites and blogs. I collected a few to put here, on the feedback page.
One of those had a very cool set of photos about The Great Wall of Target. I didn't save it, but the most powerful tool I've ever used, Google, found it for me again when I read something about a bass guitar line on a Rolling Stones song and remembered I hadn't posted to the topics blog for over a week.
I went to the list of topics Deb had recommended, and one was "walls," and so there it all came together!
Mary's diaper bag
sandradodd.com/art/basket
a miraculous pog (okay, maybe "remarkable" pog)
sandradodd.blogspot.com/2007/12/nativity-pog.html
and more grapes
sandradodd.com/eating/grapes
It's not about unschooling, except for being about art, history, religion, fruit, the wonders of the internet and parenting. Pretty close.
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