The Geek Who Understands You
Posts imported from the old Academy Caritas site
It shouldn’t be surprising to anyone that education is not a “one size fits all” endeavor, online or elsewhere. This bit about learning styles, however, did surprise me: “Correlations between learning styles and success in distance education have shown to…
It’s been SO long since I updated things here! I didn’t think anybody really missed me, but I should have kept it up a bit better. Katie tried attending a good high school near us and loved it. She got…
I haven’t mentioned how Katie is doing in a while. While there have been some adjustment issues switching over to “school” from homeschooling, she’s got all As. The “life by the bell” thing has been a nuisance, and she and…
I just wanted to post a link to an interesting but very basic article about socialization, since it continues to be something idiots bring up regarding homeschooling.
I don’t think so, honestly. And, if she’s anything like those who participated in a recent survey, I don’t think Katie will, either. …according to “Homeschooling Grows Up,” a research study on adults who were homeschooled, 74 percent of those…
An awesome article by Seed magazine (my current favorite magazine!) about learning by doing. Apparently, that’s how we learn best. When we learn by doing, we retain the information we’ve learned much better than if it’s presented to us in…
As the days go by, Katie’s time gets more and more precious. I’m not the only one who is missing lazy days of cuddling up to do our lessons together at our own pace, doing as much as is needed…
Katie is absolutely loving school. Well, she loves the social aspect, and the challenge of interacting with new instructors. She isn’t happy about living by a bell, and of course, all of us are adjusting to living on the school’s…
National Geograhic is leading the My Wonderful World campaign. There are suggestions for parents, kids, teens, and educators. I wanna be a teen. I want to get a passport and a nifty little GPS unit and go geocaching and explore…
Katie is going to high school in a few weeks, as a tenth grader. The school is much larger than the one she attended last fall—approximately the same population as my own alma mater when I was there. I, at…
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