By Debbie Ayala Typically when adults think of work, they think of hard things and when they think of play they think of easy things. Additionally, adults work because they have to, and play when they have free or leisure time. For children this is not the case. They do choose to Read more…
Won’t they need to be exposed to many different things so they don’t become too narrow? Don’t we need to make sure children to learn a little about a lot of things? By Debbie Ayala “Not a single aspect of this has ever made sense to me. “First of all there Read more…
After reading Dr. Peter Gray’s “Free to Learn” two years ago, writer and educator Jeffrey Howard became a convert to unschooling (or “Natural Learning”, as we like to call it). As a former mental health professional, he likes to explore how we humans create meaningful lives for ourselves. Recently, Jeffrey visited a Sudbury-style Read more…
In this remarkable video, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize pitch (which he won). He summarizes his version of what we call “Natural Learning” like this: “We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. If you allow the educational process to self-organize, then learning emerges. Read more…