[IAEP] educational brew

[Kathy Pusztavari]

I think that is a great point, Maria.  The homeschool community, especially
in the US (that I know of), are great at field testing things.  They are a
resource that should not be overlooked as they are able to make use of new
innovation quicker and are unable to afford to be as picky.  They tend to
make use of free quality programs off the internet.

-Kathy 

-----Original Message-----
From: iaep-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org
[mailto:iaep-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Maria Droujkova
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 4:43 AM
To: Bill Kerr
Cc: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org; Costello,Rob R
Subject: Re: [IAEP] educational brew

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Bill Kerr <billkerr at gmail.com> wrote:
> The other thing I should have said about rob's post but didn't was 
> that I pretty much agree with all of it as a description of the 
> reality we face, ie. my experiences of being an innovative teacher are 
> similar enough to what rob describes as to make it pointless to 
> quibble about the differences
>
> my support for the continuation of widespread unreasonable behaviour 
> (in the xo tradition) is based on acceptance of that reality

In my experience, the homeschool community provides a nice space for
meaningfully unreasonable behavior. Especially unschoolers.

Also, consider research restrictions. It takes from several months to half a
year in my county to get all the necessary permissions for an educational
study in public schools, whereas it only takes the internal IRB approval to
work with homescholers.

Families and local communities should not be overlooked as powerful agents
of change.

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Cheers,
MariaD

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