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Growing potatoes

I have just heard about this project on a home ed yahoo group which has been operational for at least a couple of years.  It is called Potatoes for Schools. Although the material goes on about schools, several home educating families have been involved in the last few years.  I have just registered with no problem.  The registration deadline is Friday 5th Feb 2010.

The site says:

Potatoes for Schools offers a valuable learning experience where you can find out where potatoes come from, how they grow, what you can do with them and how they can make primary learning an exciting experience.

Get some real hands-on experience by taking part in the Grow Your Own Potatoes project. There are 12,000 free growing kits available for primary schools, containing Vales Emerald and Rocket seed potatoes.

The teacher’s centre includes lesson ideas to support the children’s activities; grow it, cook it, play it and colour it. There is also a whole range of worksheets available which cover science and other areas of the curriculum. The image library has sequences of images that can be used as part of a wide range of activities.

How about actually going to see where potatoes grow? The farm visit section contains advice and a farm database.

Hope this is of use to some of you!

Sarah

 

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The "Home Education UK" network is a community resource to help, support and encourage you in your home education, with a forum, groups, a profile page where you can blog, post photos, videos, music and more.

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Things you can do now:  post an introduction, write a blog, post photos & videos, personalise your page, join a group, post questions or discussions in the Forum, and say hello to other… Continue

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Lou

An Interesting Activity for Our Children

Hi All,

For once I'm off my political soap-box and just posting something I find interesting and helpful.

I teach yoga to children aged 0-7 years and strongly believe in the necessity of mediation in our lives.

I feel that children are not given enough opportunities for down time in a world filled with noise and distraction. We offer t.v., books,and computer activity as a way to wind down but how centred and relaxed do these activities really make our children?

How many of us adults stay up… Continue

Posted by Lou on October 23, 2009 at 11:11am

Christopher

Homeschooling War in Sweden

As some of you may know we here in Sweden are in the midst of a fierce battle with the government which is trying to ban homeschooling. I have created a webpage detailing this as well as writing a book (in English) which may perhaps be of use to some of you. I am thinking of writing a response to the Badman Report too.… Continue

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The Fed-Up Homeschooler's Wish List

We got a link on facebook today, from one of our homeschooling friends in America, to a couple of homeschool related youtube videos. This of course led to one of those 'shall we just watch that one too' half hours...! - Which in turn led to us finding this -( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1z_zMtofvY&feature=related ) It's quite long and runs a bit fast (we had to pause it on the bits to read) but there are some gems in there - "Don't ask my kid if she wouldn't rather go to school un… Continue

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Technoschoolers part 2

OK, so following on from my previous post, I have been surfing the web and following rabbit-trails on technology and education.

Take a look at the following video, and consider these questions: are the issues being raised in the video relevant to home education or not (and if not, why not), if they are relevant, how do we address them?  If our children are learning autonomously, how does that figure in - how and where do we draw the boundaries, keep them safe, ensure that if they choose to game, facebook, blog, twitter or whatever (and apologies to conservative grammatists there for my verbal use of 'game' and 'facebook' there!), that they are getting something educational out of it or should we be encouraging a balance between all this and learning in more traditional ways?


Technoschoolers

We've been amazingly busy of late, and I've been encouraged to get blogging again.

The UK is currently in the throes of what amounts to a very biased government review of Home Education law, and one of the questions that has been thrown into the pot is what is a suitable education for the 21st century.

I've been having an interesting conversation online with a real-life friend of mine who is a 'learning technologist'.  She believes - with a passion - that today's schools prepare children perfectly for life - in the 1890s! She also believes that what is needed is technology, and lots of it! To be specific, social media - Web 2.0 collaborative learning & networking technologies, and among the best of these she suggests the following:

- YouTube
- Animoto
- Blogs
- Twitter
- wikis

Of course, homeschoolers in the US and home educators in the UK are already well connected through things like yahoo groups, curriculum forums, and the newer Ning communities such as the Homeschool Lounge, the Home Ed UK Network and so on.

But something I've been working on lately has been to try and encourage the home educated children themselves to get involved with collaborative projects such as wikis (I particularly like wetpaint).

As and when I get round to it, I'll try and re-do my links to include some of the social networks that I find most interesting and helpful.

But I'd also like to add a couple of resources to the 'must-have' list of learning technologies:

- VoiceThread
- Piknik

I've also heard good things about

- Moodle and
- Elluminate

but I'm not sure how appropriate these would be for children who are learning at home autonomously (as most UK home educators do), I would need to investigate further how these can be used.

I'm interested to know other people's views on technology, and what might constitute an education that would prepare children who are studying now and in the 2010s for life in the 2020s, 2030s and beyond.

And which technologies do you consider to be crucial, interesting or useful?

And next time, I promise to try and up-date you about exactly what it is we've been doing and where we've been going!

 

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