Trying out home schooling
Teaching your children at home has its advantages and disadvantages; it is really down to the individual as to whether or not it suits them. After all it is not just the child’s life that is affected, but also the parents too, as they cannot have a worthwhile career and teach at home too.
However there [...]
Bedroom studying gets lower grades
It seems that there are some things that parents are always right in and allowing the kids to have a TV, computer and games consul in their bedrooms is not the best thing when they are supposed to be doing their studying or homework, there are just too many distractions.
There have been many studies into [...]
Under 18’s not allowed to use Google
How many times do children of all ages use Google at school to search out information for projects and other school related work? But there is small debate going on that has highlighted that there could be some problems with this, especially as by looking at the Google’s terms and conditions it would seem that [...]
March 7, 2008An education on Second Life
People use Second Life for many different things, meeting people, making money and now you can get yourself a decent education from the many places of learning that are scattered around the SL site.
Not all of these sites offer a traditional education as in learning a specific skill or gaining a qualification, but rather a [...]
Online education boom
The days have long gone when every child has to go to school to get an education, the world has changed so much and with communications being so much better, home schooling has become a reality and for some children the opportunity to learn at home is ideal, it suits their situations.
Online learning as an [...]