May 12, 2023, marks the end of our 2022-23 academic year for our third-grader. The fifth-grader has only a few assignments remaining, too. We made…
Poet Ponders the Digital
The public school experiment for 2022-23 ran its course by January 26, 2023, when we gave the fifth grader a mental health day at home.…
Homeschooling Anne goes from 8:30 a.m. in the morning right up through bedtime, with breaks for lunch, snack, and dinner. Since I wake up at…
Monday, August 15, 2022. Today, our daughters returned to their public school for the first time since March 13, 2020. Yes, I’ll remember those dates.…
After a two-week break from homeschooling, our youngest daughter doesn’t seem to recall the last six months (or more) of knowledge and skills we practiced.…
Computer programming develops problem solving skills, helping students see that all problems — no matter how large — are sets of smaller problems. I’ve promoted…
Microsoft Excel is one of my favorite applications. Long ago, it was Quattro Pro that displaced Lotus 1-2-3 in my heart, but Excel long ago rose…
A colleague recently suggested my wife and I should have no computing screen time limitations for our daughters. Should parents set screen time limits for…
It’s far more than an eight-hour day. It’s more than a five-day work week. “It” is trying to keep our two daughters on track academically. Because…
This blog often critiques schools and universities for rushing to adopt technologies without prioritizing learning. No technology replaces the value of a skilled teacher selecting…