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25.01.2022 Meet the Papas, the Anangu word for dog, created by Pitjantjatjara Artist Nicole Rupert. New look #Jarjums starts Tomorrow from 6am.
22.01.2022 Oh my goodness Miss 16 years just brought in her latest completed miniature house! And wow its stunning, I had been meaning to take some individual shots as sh...e has made all the decorations individually, wired the lamp and and chandelier,made the chandelier, the perfume bottles, the suitcases, the curtains, the pictures, the windows and walls, even the pillars and gold trim. So much fine detail in miniature. This is the bottom floor of a 3 Story Apartment. Awesome patience and perseverance with such a creative flair. Your local hobby shops carry these Miniature Houses, we get ours from The Jolly Whale. We do love this life. #unschoolingteens #minaturehouses #unschoolingrocks #unschoolingdownunder #details #creative #jollywhale #thejollywhale #homeschoolaustralia #unschoolingaustralia #learningallthetime #solittle #lightswork See more
21.01.2022 This one really makes me think.
19.01.2022 ATTN Homeschoolers and Educators: We are responsible for educating children, and have a duty to them to teach them versions of their studies that dont perpe...tuate and reinforce racism, colorism, white-supremacy, xenophobia, and colonization. For instance, if we even touch on subjects such as world geography, we need to make sure youre not using colonizer-centered and white-supremacist materials. Also, Please Listen to Jane Elliot. She knows what shes talking about. Thank you. World Map exceprt: [https://youtu.be/m7-y8MNzJKI] Full Version: [https://youtu.be/Wg_LW-0DEEU] Please Listen to Jane Elliot. She knows what shes talking about.
18.01.2022 How will you make sure your homeschooled children arent falling behind? I really struggled with that question in our early days. I spent hours checking the l...evel my kids should be at across their core academic subjects, either sweating on them catching up or celebrating them being ahead. But over time a small internal voice started asking for my attention. It had a point to make: The concept of falling behind only exists if youre trying to arrive at a specific place within a specific period of time. Childhood doesnt have to be a race. It can be a journey instead, with many paths and endings and many different measures of progress and success. I paused, thinking about my two older children. The first, an avid reader, writer and artist. Not a square inch of his bedroom clear of his own illustrations. Inhaling books as if they give him life. A beautiful writer with a voracious appetite for creating his own work. Matching and exceeding academic standards in his sleep. A delight to every teacher he ever had. The second, his younger brother by just two years, almost the opposite. Unable to spend the time needed at a desk to meet any standard that requires it. Always needing to move, to make noise, to express himself physically. Learning by doing, tinkering, exploring, experimenting. By breaking and fixing, by trial and error. Testing enough boundaries to cause tense parent-teacher meetings while he was at school. The voice, far from finished yet, pointed out that I was trying to benchmark two very different children against one very specific standard. That one of them would always tick the expected boxes while the other would always struggle. That perhaps my son wasnt the problem, the standard I was holding him to was. The penny dropped. What started as a quiet internal voice soon became my strongest conviction: its impossible to fall behind when your only goal is to become the truest version of *you*.
18.01.2022 Deadline today! Submit your proposal!
15.01.2022 Before school closures: screens are dangerously addictive! You cant just let kids use them as much as they want. Theyll be zombies! After school closures: kid...s need to spend 6 hours a day on screens. They must stare constantly at the screen or be punished for not paying attention. Almost like it was never about "screens," but about the ability of adults to have complete control over what children did on them... Idzie Desmarais
14.01.2022 My boys current big project - life-sized anatomy paintings. Id like to say that this is part of a highly-organised and comprehensive unit study, but that would be lying #keepingitreal
13.01.2022 We caught up with Karlie Noon to talk about accessible science and Indigenous astronomy, ahead of her involvement in the Sydney Science Trail.
07.01.2022 Time to share this again....
07.01.2022 "Unschooling is a way of life. Its a full-time commitment to living a rich life with children, providing a safe and resource-filled environment, building respe...ctful relationships, seeking out opportunities in the community, and trusting that children are incredibly capable learners. Unschooling is a philosophy that trickles into every aspect of your life, colouring all your relationships with a greater understanding of everyday consent and principles of non-hierarchical living." Idzie Desmarais, Why Cant You Just Unschool Part Time? https://yes-i-can-write.blogspot.com//why-cant-you-just-un See more
05.01.2022 As our nation prepares for a major election, After Dark takes a month-long look at some key factors that influence personal and collective decision makingand t...he effect these influences have on the democratic process. Uncertainty: its certainly uncomfortable. Its also unavoidable in any election. How can we incorporate an understanding of uncertainty into an informed decision-making process, and how can uncertainty be effectively communicated by those constructing polls and data analysis? While nothing is certain, after this After Dark, you may be a bit more comfortable knowing what you cant know. This program features: UNDERSTANDING ELECTION POLLS with Courtney Kennedy Courtney Kennedy is the director of survey research at the Pew Research Center, where she serves as chief survey methodologist, providing guidance on all the centers research and leading its methodology work. HOW TO COMMUNICATE UNCERTAINTY IN FORECASTS with Jessica Hullman Jessica Hullman is an associate professor at Northwestern with a joint appointment in computer science and journalism, and the co-director of the MU Collective. The goal of her research is to develop user interface tools and methods to help more people make sense of complex information, and in particular to reason about uncertainty as they use data.
05.01.2022 I have to admit that I was mourning some of the exercises we typically do in our in-person sociocracy training that we can't do online. Yet, now online learnin...g is almost even better! There's real FUN stuff one can only do online. Like this group exercise that we call the pixel exercise that teaches about domains and incremental improvements. I mean, look at the improvement! I also love circle visualizations and facilitation scenarios. There's so much to un-cover and talk about! If you want to play with me, you can do so soon! www.sociocracyforall.org/primer See more
02.01.2022 I just saw this post by Sophie Christophy about consent-based parenting and though about sharing it with the group. I find interesting the relation between cons...ent-based education and consent-based decison-making. Schools can unite these two practices if they wish to build a culture of consent. See more
01.01.2022 "To offer something truly freely to another person, to share something with enthusiasm and without attempts at coercion, requires humility. It means you can't be too invested in the outcome, can't make it too much about you, because you are offering a gift not a burden." Idzie Desmarais
