My son (14) is particpating in the ds106 course alongside me as part of his home learning activities. he is currently not into having a blog, or ressurecting his old one so for now I will post any contributions that he wants to share with everyone. He was, at first, resistant to doing an...

We are about to join a MOOC (massive open online course) as one of our home learning experiments. The course is run by Jim Groom for his students at UMW University of Mary Washington but he has made it open and global. I became aware of the Summer of Oblivion Digital Storytelling course ds1206...

disappearing norma I recently contributed a post for purpos/ed (which is about opening a debate  around education) with my partner and son which I hope offered a voice for people outside the formal education system. I think we questioned that system and presented one view from the home...

we had an unusual and very nice surprise this week from a stranger. We received a copy of a book from Amazon that we don’t already have and that we didn’t order. It was ‘My name is Mina’ by David Almond.  It came with a message saying: ‘found your blog recently....

>I’ve been away for a while – trying to focus only on what I have to. Lots happening and will do a catch up post soon… However I am moved to write today following the ridiculous media and government response to the court case about the awful death of 7 year old Khyra...

> we are now really immersed in the home learning and are trying a new routine where each day we do one hour of intense one to one work followed by one hour of self-directed learning. The rest of the time tends to be flexible and of course home learning happens all the time wherever we...