Workbook publishers, you have made my life difficult as a homeschooling parent. We purchase perforated workbooks so we can remove pages and give them one…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Category: Teaching
Pedagogy and general teaching with (or without) modern technology.
We made it to day 90, the half-way point for the 180-day standard curriculum maps. Following the Texas standards and Common Core, which mostly overlap,…
Homeschooling requires a lot of energy. Unfortunately, I’m exhausted. Working as a college instructor and on other projects, along with homeschooling both daughters, leaves me…
Our daughters are now on track, having caught up with both Common Core and Texas standards as of this week. Understand that such standards are…
Our daughters and I assembled a simple Windows computer for them to use for homeschooling tasks. We haven’t had a Windows system for many years…
Grade-level expectations and academic achievement took a backseat to “treading water” after March 13, 2020, according to my colleagues in K12. It was hard enough…
During the summers, we maintain “summer enrichment” activities for our daughters. With schooling forced online in March 2020, we’ve done all we can to simply…
We’re officially a homeschooling household. We notified the school district, in writing and via email, and we enrolled in a homeschooling curriculum. The COVID-19 pandemic…
Schools, from K12 to universities, rushed online after March 13, 2020. Sadly, the COVID-19 coronavirus and poor online education pedagogy and design went hand-in-hand thanks…
Testing designs, testing software, testing documents. We need to teach students that testing is part of all product development. Instead, we focus on details that…