Natural Born Learners

> A child will pick up a spool of thread, and that will become an > automobile, or a match box will become a bed, or a chest of drawers: > where one object can st...

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Grace Llewellyn I would love to see us as a society not thinking so much in terms of “education,” but rather thinking more broadly in terms of “life.” We tend to see things in boxe...

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This is an excerpt. To read the entire chapter, buy the reader here. How you choose to spend your time, I think, says a tremendous amount about yourself. The admissions officer at Princeton,...

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Here is an excerpt from Brenna McBroom's chapter in Natural Born Learners: Unschooling and Autonomy in Education. Brenna McBroom is a long-time unschooler from Asheville, North Carolina. She c...

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Kate Fridkis works as a lay clergy member at a synagogue and writes a blog called Eat the Damn Cake, which is syndicated on The Huffington Post and Psychology Today. She also writes a column for ...

http://radiofreeschool.blogspot.com/2015/12/kate-fridkis-growing-up-weird.html

Here's an excerpt of Pat Farenga's chapter in Natural Born Learners: Unschooling and Autonomy in Education. The chapter is called You Don't Have to Go to Grow: Growing without Schooling. One o...

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Dr. Monica Wells Kisura (Trinity Washington University) recently passed away after battling cancer. She was a brilliant, vibrant beautiful woman and she will be deeply missed. I am so gratefu...

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On March 9, 2003, the admissions officer at Harvard, Marilyn McGrath, on the front page of the New York Times, told readers Harvard only accepts students who show evidence of distinction. Many ...

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Madeleine Kay (17) was unschooled up until grade 6. Listen to her rendition of Leonard Cohen's Chelsea Hotel, arranged and played by her.

http://radiofreeschool.blogspot.com/2015/09/unschooled-violinist-madeleine-kay.html

Years ago,  our Radio Free School program had the honour of not only interviewing author Kate Cayley for our show, but we also created a youtube video based on the interview where Kate describes...

http://radiofreeschool.blogspot.com/2015/07/unschooler-and-author-kate-cayley-how.html

If you have ever tried putting a duvet into its cover, you know how hard it can be if you don’t first set the thing up correctly. What you do is you turn the cover inside out, stick your hands ...

http://radiofreeschool.blogspot.com/2015/06/you-want-change-change-your-questions.html

A mother sits folding laundry, her baby in the high chair beside her. “Here are mummy’s striped pajamas. They're red and blue and warm and fuzzy,” she says in a singsong voice. The baby gur...

http://radiofreeschool.blogspot.com/2015/05/how-talking-to-your-child-can-improve.html

Disengaged? Hardly. Today’s youth just might be the saviours of us all Thank you for feeding us years of lies. Thank you for the wars you left us to fight. Thank you for the world you ruined o...

http://radiofreeschool.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-kids-are-all-right.html

Poo face.” “Dirty skin.” “Black chicken.” It begins early. When her daughter was in Junior Kindergarten, Stoney Creek, Ont., mom Christabel Pinto says she would come home from school e...

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Technology can transform learning into real life, relevant experiences. Not too long ago, it was absurd to say that every Tom, Rashid and Baba should have access to the Internet. For what? Now,...

http://radiofreeschool.blogspot.com/2015/03/closing-digital-gap-empowers-students.html

1.Comparing. I believe that the root of all evil is comparison. When you find yourself about to do the "is my child keeping up?" or "her child is better at piano then mine, and they're the same...

http://radiofreeschool.blogspot.com/2015/03/10-unschooling-mistakes-to-avoid.html

Thank you CBC for the article entitled ‘The 7 things kids need to succeed: Character traits include grit, self-control and social intelligence.’ This piece is based on the work of journalis...

http://radiofreeschool.blogspot.com/2015/02/7-conditions-for-7-things-kids-need-to.html

Happy New Year! I have to be honest, I have neglected my blog, but I promise, I will post weekly from now on, even if that means reposting (it likely will until things slow down in a few months)....

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I had the pleasure of presenting at Hamilton's Function Keys 2 Conference  last month. My presentation was entitled 'Open-source learning: education from a wider community perspective, technolo...

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My mum gave my 4-year-old nephew a stuffed toy snake—cute for his baby sister but certainly not for a sophisticated “builder” like he considers himself to be. Without a backward glance, he ...

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In Ontario, there's a plan to provide every kid from grade 4 to 12 with access to technology (iPad, tablet etc). There's this idea that with technology in the classroom, school is going to be the...

http://radiofreeschool.blogspot.com/2014/10/technology-education-and-poverty.html

Book talk on Unschooling and Autonomy in Education today, September 4th at 6.30pm, Westdale library. Listen to a first hand experience of unschooling then hear excerpts from the book. Humans a...

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Have you checked your privilege today? It's getting a whole lot harder to avoid the inevitable 'calling out' of privilege. In response to the rise of internet culture, social justice analysis...

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Book reading/discussion Natural Born Learners: Unschooling and Autonomy in Education Thursday, August 7th, at 2:00 pm. Hamilton Public Library Locke St. Branch. All welcome!

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***BOOK PROMOTION of Natural Born Learners *** Kindle count down deal starts AUGUST 01 at 0.99 cents (48 hours in duration). 3 increments takes us to August 7th at the original price of 3.99. ...

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