Category: Kids
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Homeschooling won’t save your kids
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Career Planning 101: My Daughter Won’t Be Your Corporate Drone
I can’t vouch for the complete accuracy of this transcript. But it went something like this. Teacher: “So what are you going to do for a career dear?” Daughter (14): “Oh, I don’t know… Nothing. Everything.” Teacher: “That’s not an answer. What do you mean?” Daughter (14): “Sit on a beach somewhere. Work as a…
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Changing the world with literacy and numeracy: This guy’s $25 education start up is now building a new school every 90 hours
This is literacy and numeracy literally changing the world… the developing world. They are now building a new school every 90 hours.The reason: 250 million primary-aged children lack basic reading writing, and maths skills and these guys intend to do something about it. It takes US$25 to educate a child and US$25,000 to build an…
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Why I Am Afraid of Email And The 7 Scary Things I Did About It
I am afraid of email I’m afraid of email. I had a bad experience. It might be because I couldn’t answer the nearly 10,000 emails that had accumulated in my inbox. The year was 2010. Or was it 2011. I can’t actually remember now. But the thing that happened was that I had a baby.…
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Kids need teachers because teachers are essential to education
Kids need teachers, right? So do adult learners, right? Well… what if they didn’t… In New Zealand, current budget reforms mean that schools and training providers are facing tough times due to reduced funding. That means some schools will lose teachers and will need to have larger classes. And the teachers are revolting. I mean,…
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Why my video-production-for-idiots wish list has Instagram to blame.
I’m trying to set my kids up to do small-scale, light-weight, video production totally on an iPad 3. The trouble is that the iPad is not really designed for it. Seamless end-to-end video production is still some way off for the iPad. By comparison, my experience as a amateur happy snapper photographer has been quite…
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Minecraft taught my kids everything they needed for life
My kids are hooked on Minecraft. In case you don’t know it’s a computer game. They play it on the iPad. I think there’s a PC version but I don’t know anything about that. What I do know is that Minecraft has taught them everything they need to live a fulfilling life. I’m not sure…