Month: April 2011
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Any volunteers to help with the reading tutorial?
I need some volunteers for my new free reading program, and I hope someone (or several someones) out there might be able to help! I really need it! If you are interested, please read on. As readers of this blog know, I am working on something that is tentatively being called WatchKnow Reader. Here’s what…
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Reviews of educational apps for little kids
Here are some app reviews I just posted on BrillKids.com. Below that are some older reviews, still valid. Five star apps National Geographic World Atlas HD – 5/5 – can’t believe I didn’t get this earlier. Now one of our most-used apps. For purposes of teaching, this has gotten more use, recently, than Google…
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Manifesto of Very Early Education (version 1)
I have been “pre-homeschooling” my two boys, H. (almost five years) and E. (seven months). It has been an interesting journey. I have picked a few very general principles, which I thought it might help me–and perhaps other parents in similar situations–to write down. You might call this my credo, or manifesto. Feedback and pointers…
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My response to the CFCC’s FTC complaint about YBCR
[All: here is my letter in support of Robert Titzer and Your Baby Can, in response to this scurrilous complaint by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. I encourage you to send the FTC similar responses, citing your own personal experience and, if you have it, linking your videos of your child reading at an…
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Update on WatchKnow Reader progress (April)
We are hip-deep in the initial building phase of the project. We’ve got a demo going (nothing suitable for public consumption yet though) and made a lot of adjustments to the plan. The whole plan of making an elaborate, complete demo turned out to be well justified; basically, it has turned out to be very…