Saturday Links

March 1, 2008 @ 9:20 am | Filed under: Links

• Home Hum: Thoughts on play and its role in education
  Excellent piece on the importance of play, with great quotes at the end.
  (tags: play parenting unschooling)

• Unschooling Voices: Lucky #13!
  The unschooling blog carnival is hosted this month by Silvia of Po Moyemu. Good stuff there!
  (tags: unschooling carnival)

• Sign Language Video – Who has the Frog?
  A new Signing Time DVD! A NEW SIGNING TIME DVD!!!!!
  (tags: ASL signlanguage)

• The Eyes Have It, Professor Teaches A New Way Of Looking At Things – CBS News
  Wow. I want to take a class with this guy. Or better yet, just have him come over and walk through town with us. Dr. Stilgoe, you have a standing invitation, hear?

  "Harvard, he says, has some of the finest students in the world, but he believes most of them are visual illiterates. Their academic lives have been programmed around verbal and mathematical tests that will get them into a good college, but he says they lack a sense of spontaneity.

  “I think they’ve missed a kind of self-guided, non-organized activity, non-sports activity growing up. Wandering around, getting into things. And the assumption seems to be nowadays is if a child isn’t in an organized activity, the child is a criminal,” says Stilgoe. “But as far as I can understand, most of my colleagues I work with seem to have found their careers by being slightly disorganized. Lucking into something, you know.”
  (tags: unschooling seeing learning)

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