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Born to Learn
A fun, thought-provoking series of animations that illustrate ground-breaking new discoveries about how humans learn.

Child's Learning Assets
The natural order of things is that children do their learning "job" by first collecting information so that when it comes time to think in the abstract, they have lots of information to work with. By Linda Dobson [HEM].

Five Educational Philosophies
Essentialism, Progressivism, Perennialism Existentialism, and Behaviorism. Taken together, these five schools of thought do not exhaust the list of possible educational philosophies you may adopt, but they certainly present strong frameworks from which you can create your own educational philosophy.

Implicit versus Explicit Learning
The ability to play the game versus knowing the rules of the game. By Renée Fuller, Ph.D.

Learning Styles and Hemispheric Dominance
Is your learning style at odds with that of your child's? Even though I am a very patient person and consider myself to be attuned to my children and their needs, I became extremely frustrated by the fact that many of the resources I found natural to use did not seem to appeal to my children. By Karen Gibson.

Learning Styles: The Many Faces of Home Education
Perhaps homeschooling's most precious advantage is that it is completely malleable; it can be shaped to whatever you need it to be. Instead of forcing your child to fit into public education, you have the chance to mold education around your child. Tamara Orr, HEM S/O '04.

Concerns

Failing To Succeed
Unfortunately, when people concentrate on trying to avoid failure rather than trying to succeed, problems arise. By Billy Greer.

Learning 101
We have the chance to fill our children's heads with the "big picture" material, rather than the capitols of all the states, the multiplication tables, or the names of all past presidents. By Tamra Orr, HEM J/F 08.

How do Homeschooling Parents Know their Children are Learning?
By Jan Hunt. The answer to this question is, to put it most simply, direct observation.

Making Mistakes and Thinking for Yourself
I want my children, all children, to have the chance to understand the valuable role of mistakes in life. Jana Mohr Lone, HEM Nov/Dec00.

Much Too Early
This popular author and Professor of Child Development explains the realistic educational needs of young children. By David Elkind.

Testing Homeschoolers
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Are the children learning? Should you test? Must you test? If you must, how do you locate testing services? From your Homeschooling Guide.

The Things I Really Want My Kids to Learn
If I were writing a curriculum today, I would include growing a garden and knowing how to make a shelter anytime, anywhere, from what's at hand. by Sue Smith-Heavenrich, HEM S/O 03.

Use Summarizing to Monitor Understanding,
To clarify thinking, and strengthen learning. A summary is a wrap-up­a general picture of the information­much like TV networks produce at the end of the year. From KidBibs, by Joyce Melton Pagés.

The Self-Directed Learner

Critical and Creative Thinking - Bloom's Taxonomy
Benjamin Bloom (1956) developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior in learning. This taxonomy contained three overlapping domains: the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective. Within the cognitive domain, he identified six levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

Freedom and Adult Education
Adult education usually carries with it some connotation of a struggle with literacy. By Charles D. Hayes, HEM M/J 99.

Hole-In-The-Wall
An Indian physicist puts a PC with a high speed internet connection in a wall in the slums and watches what happens. He calls this method of computer literacy education "Noninvasive education."

The Importance of Pleasure in Play
We learn best when we are having fun. Play, more than any other activity, fuels healthy development of children - and the continued healthy development of adults. More articles by Bruce Duncan Perry, M.D., Ph.D.

Islands of Expertise
Why do children become such specialists? "Islands of expertise" is a term coined by Kevin Crowley, Ph.D., an educational researcher at University of Pittsburgh who studies the ways that children and parents learn together in museums. by Eric D. Gyllenhaal.

Learning How To Think
Learning to be thinkers rather than mere reflectors of others' thoughts should be a constant goal in the education of your children, both for their academic achievement and for character's sake. By Dr. Raymond and Dorothy Moore.

Philosophy and Learning at Home
Wondering with children is one of my favorite pastimes. Wondering about the world, marveling at it, examining it, freely and carefully puzzling about it, is essential to childhood. By Jana Mohr Lone. [HEM]

Project Zero's Research Projects
Research at Harvard, lead by Howard Gardner, into how to help your child develop thinking strategies for creative problem solving.

The Secret Lives of Children
I have discovered, despite my all-seeing eyes, my all-hearing ears and my never-stop-talking mouth, that my children are growing and learning behind my back! By Teresa Blalock, HEM SO 06

Self-Directed Learning
My teenagers had finally "made it". They had achieved my primary goal in homeschooling: they had become independent, self-directed learners. From the Older Kids column, by Cafi Cohen

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Books To Help You Learn About Learning
Learning All the Time: John Holt
Learning All the Time
by John Holt
In clear, direct language, Learning All the Time describes the crucial difference between learning (making sense of the world) and education (being forced to digest and regurgitate what someone else dictates). Without vitriol, John Holt exposes how our children are harmed more than helped by institutional schools.
 
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