Category: Home Schooling
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How do we know it’s working?
Home schooling is a bit tricky. We have adopted a curriculum from Oak Meadow School in the US – it’s a popular school – to the point they seem too busy to talk to us! But it’s not straightforward. Here are some of our first questions: How many hours to spend? How much discipline is…
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More tech: building a computer
Along the same theme as the previous post, Caelean and I are building a computer. Actually it’s one I built a while a go and have now taken apart. Caelean reads about it first, and makes some notes and draws the critical things, then we sit down with the bits and look at them to…
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Starting to teach: fixing a bike
I really enjoy teaching – it’s interesting to see people learn, and fun to work out how to create the conditions in which it can happen. Jeremy and I are dismantling a bike. Today we took apart a wheel bearing and cleaned and re-packed it. So we discussed grease and oil, how adjustable spanners work,…
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Home schooling
We’ve started a programme of teaching our kids at home this year. Properly we should call it distance learning, as we’re actually enrolled in a school called Oak Meadow – they provide us with curriculum and guidance so we won’t stray too far from the straight and narrow. I’ll try to keep a sort of…