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Re: 6 Ways the Internet will Change Home Schooling Forever

Deas — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:27:46 -0000

Just throw a "shiver me timbers," "yo ho ho," or "walk the plank" in once in a while and you're covered. I'd recommend against sprinkling in any poop deck references, though. Never goes well.

Re: 6 Ways the Internet will Change Home Schooling Forever

koichi — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:49:12 -0000

Hey Sarah, thank you for the perspective! Honestly, I know very little about homeschooling and how it actually works, so I'm glad I got a few things right :)

Re: 6 Ways the Internet will Change Home Schooling Forever

koichi — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:47:49 -0000

ayyye, indeed matey. haha, I don't think I can keep too much piratey talk going for too long. Just started this blog, due to my recent foray into education! Thank you for visitng, Carlie!

Re: 6 Ways the Internet will Change Home Schooling Forever

koichi — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:47:23 -0000

Niicce! Glad it arrived safely! I look forward to linking to all your great articles soon!

Re: 6 Ways the Internet will Change Home Schooling Forever

Carlie Hamilton — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:05:25 -0000

Ah Koichi! I didn't know this was your blog until I read the comments here. I really love it, especially because of the pirates, arrh! Great interesting post, I'm going to subscribe to RSS :)

Re: 6 Ways the Internet will Change Home Schooling Forever

KirstenWinkler — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:47:24 -0000

Hey Koichi,
great post, great blog!

+ my eduFire T-Shirt arrived today ;).

Re: 6 Ways the Internet will Change Home Schooling Forever

SarahXin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:34:55 -0000

Hey Koichi, awesome post! As a homeschooler tech geek I have a few things to add too.

1. Not only live learning sites, but did you know that there are public virtual schools popping up all over the country? I'm taking Mandarin this year with VLACS, a virtual charter school free to NH residents. It's cool stuff, although they still have a long way to go with bugs and things.

4. Haha this is so true! I went through a very antisocial phase when I first became homeschooled and I was all about my online friends. Lots of Skyping. :)

5. I'm doing this too! I'm plugging ALL my Japanese vocab into iKnow to learn it... it's awesome. I don't know what I'd do without that site.

Re: 6 Ways the Internet will Change Home Schooling Forever

Avichal — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:39:34 -0000

Koichi,

Your blog came up on my feedreader.

I think online test prep companies have the potential to make some very fundamental changes in education. Why? Because it's a point of entry. Online test prep companies are well received by schools and traditional educators in many cases because they are more efficient ways to do something that has to be done today. Simple things such as assessing a student and allowing a teacher to see a concrete breakdown of that student's strengths and weaknesses, and that individual student's progress over time is a huge leap forward.

In any case, I could talk about this for hours and there is plenty to talk about. If you're interested in talking more, drop me an email:
agarg at my company's domain: prepme.com

Avichal Garg
Co-Founder, PrepMe

Re: 6 Ways the Internet will Change Home Schooling Forever

koichi — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:22:52 -0000

Criminy, Comments are kind of whack, a couple disappeared... That's what I get for trying to change things around post-set-up :(

Sorry to the person who's comment got deleted!

Re: 6 Ways the Internet will Change Home Schooling Forever

koichi — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:02:22 -0000

Thanks Evan! I didn't even think about that. Could probably even be it's own entire article - test prep is crazay!

Re: 6 Ways the Internet will Change Home Schooling Forever

Evan J. — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:18:16 -0000

You forgot online test preparation - prepme already has an entire state i think?

Re: 6 Ways the Internet will Change Home Schooling Forever

Captain_Ron — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:52:42 -0000

I agree, edufire and the ilk are great platforms for what they do. I think that style has its place in the world always, guys like me (Full-Time worker) isn't looking for a fully structured online program. I think that change will come though..

The market will drive the market

Re: 6 Ways the Internet will Change Home Schooling Forever

Captain_Ron — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:49:26 -0000

I don't think it's quite there yet... this is a blazing new frontier, I know the idea of learning on the Internet has been around for a long time now. Just considering all the online degree programs out there. Homeschooling is still 100% in the hands of the parents though with no alternatives. The current generation of online learning websites are very open and free willed, which don't get me wrong is a great thing! However it limits them in the way that they will truly be a limited supplement to traditional home-schooling. I think the next generation (or the one after) may pick up on this and become more organized (Like the Online-Degree Programs)