Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Welcome to the new Independent Learning and Homeschooling blog

The time comes for all things to start anew.  After a period of time dealing with some life changing issues I have decided to start over completely with the faithful old blog Independent learning and Homeschooling.  The blog here will be focused on all forms of independent learning and all forms of homeschooling.  I hope to look at these things at the cutting edge of what is happening in education today and how it relates to independent types of learning. 

I am convinced that most of traditional education is at least static.  In some places it is dead.... like a zombie, it just doesn't know it yet.  We are still relying on snapshot multiple choice tests to provide information about what a child knows at any given time.  Many schools now rely on ever more standard teaching approaches which wind up being "one size fits all" approaches.  In many schools this has taken the form of computerized curriculum that require every teacher and every class to be in the same place, on the same lesson, on the same objective on the same day regardless of complete understanding of material.  Tragic.  We have know for many, many years that learning takes place by connecting information while processing deeply within our brains.  Teachers know this because so many are surprised that they really learned their subject when they had to analyze it to teach it.  They had to "kneed" the information and "work" it to get the meaning out of all the verbiage. 

What I want to do here is to examine the various ways, programs, approaches and techniques successful independent learners use to master material.  Then I hope to suggest and provide ways that can be used to make every person who wants to learn anything successful.  You are going to see a lot here... commentary, reviews, interviews, my ravings, me blowing off steam and hopefully some things that will be truly useful.  I look forward to hopefully providing something that is going to be enlightening, useful and thought-provoking as this blog develops.   

John

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