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Home schooling and unschooling
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by previousstudent on November 26, 2006
Indirectly related to gaming, is the trend towards unschooling. I am curious what others think about it. I have mixed feelings. I suppose it’s like anything, there are good and effective games and not so good ones. And there are good schools and teachers and not so good ones. And there are parents with good ideas and not so good ones. To say “it depends” isn’t a cop out, I really do think it depends on a lot of stuff.
November 26th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
I was wondering what aspect of gaming you think is influencing the trend towards home schooling? The belief that you can learn better and home (and i have my opinions about this) or the belief that home schooling will reduce children’s exposure to the “bad” influence of egames?
For me the issue here is the idea that parents may have about “protection/monitoring” children….when it is too much or when it is too little? As you say there are parents with good ideas and not so good ones.
November 26th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
There is a difference between home schooling and “unschooling”. I guess the question to the poster is if they truly meant “unschooling”. Interestingly, I just watched a Dr. Phil episode on this very issue this past week.