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Category Archives: Learning
Photoshop
Yesterday was Photoshop day. Maya, as many of you know, is an avid video maker/editor, but last week she decided she needs to learn Photoshop. I knew I was going to be of little or no help. Adobe, while not … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged adobe, bob, eduardo, graphic design, jeff, learning, life learning, Makerbot, Maya, Origami, Photoshop, sewing, turtles, unschooling
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UnschoolingNYC Arrives!!
It seems like the site has been forever in the making, and I will probably be adding to it until the end of time, but it’s up, it’s live and you can now check it out! www.unschoolingnyc.com When you … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged consulting, education, forum, learning, life learning, opt-in, unschooling, unschoolingnyc, unschoolingnyc.com
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Justice vs. Law
The new season of “Whale Wars” started on Friday, and this year Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherds are heading north to the Faroe Islands, where killing pilot whales is a 1000 year old tradition among the islanders. In this … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged abolition, bully principal, cps, education, holocaust, just doing his job, justice vs. law, learning, life learning, paul watson, slavery, standardized testing, that which is not just is not law, unschooling, whale wars, william lloyd garrison
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What kind of life do you want?
If your favorite thing in life is to write stories, can you convince yourself to be an accountant? If nothing gives you more pleasure than studying animals, can you dismiss your passion and become a computer scientist? And even if … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged Blake Boles, dale stephens, education, frank bruni, homeschooling, learning, life learning, made by hand, mark frauenfelder, matthew crawford, michael ellsberg, NY Times, nytimes op ed, opinion, Peter Thiel, quiet desperation, shop class as soulcraft, song still in them, Thoreau, unschooling
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Book club biography
For Maya’s book club meeting tomorrow, we’ve asked the girls to write a one page biographical story. It can be anything that has happened to them that they want to write down. It can be funny, sad, whatever. … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged book club, book club biography, Christmas 1970, christmas pageant, learning, life learning, peace, three years old, unschooling
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What a week!
I hereby give my own mini standing ovation to all the event planners out there. You are sorely under-appreciated. Why is that, all you non-event planners might ask? Well. First there are the lists. Lists of attendees, rsvp’s, items … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged argentina, Ben, Better Than College, Blake Boles, brenna mcbroom, brenna's etsy shop, college towns, community, diamond shaped chairs, education, education of millionaires, etsy shop, evening with michael ellsberg, event planners are unsung heroes, event planning, homeschooling, learning, life learning, mario kart, Maya, michael ellsberg, not back to school camp, Seth Godin, squishies, unschooling, youtube
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Why it’s called a learning “experience”
Three days from now Michael Ellsberg will be coming in to talk to the NYCHEA community about his book, “The Education of Millionaires: It’s not what you think and it’s not too late.” This evening Michael and I were … Continue reading
Full Disclosure
It has come to my attention over the last week that because of my “radical” views on education and learning, many people make the assumption that I lead a particular lifestyle. Because we are life-learners, the assumption is that we … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged Adam Levine, baseball, biggest loser, Chagall, charmed, education, homeschooling, learning, life learning, maroon 5, Met Opera, movies, pop culture heathen, salmon fishing in the yemen, superhero, the voice, twitter, unschooling, vampire diaries, Van Gogh
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