Larry Sanger
Online knowledge organizer. Co-founder of Wikipedia, Ph.D. Philosophy.
April 27, 2011
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.…
April 25, 2011
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,…
April 17, 2011
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…
April 15, 2011
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…
April 8, 2011
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…
March 22, 2011
Chapter books H. and I read
Here is our list (by request), recently updated. This includes only chapter books and a few others, excluding picture books, most science books, and little-kid storybooks, regardless how thick. I also didn't include books (except two?) that we didn't finish. We started and made excellent…
March 21, 2011
“The Greatest Art and Music”–together
Well, it might not be the greatest, but you'll recognize a lot of standard paintings and classical music. I've matched them up and these will be used as "interludes" among the slides in the upcoming WatchKnow Reader app. I had altogether too much fun making these. Suitable for viewing by children…
February 18, 2011
Update about the Boys – February 2011
It's been a couple months since I updated this blog about what I'm doing with the boys, so here goes--subject by subject. The general method I've followed with H.'s education is unchanged: I read to him at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, we usually do something educational after breakfast and after…
February 11, 2011
Kid-friendly paintings for Reader “interludes”?
UPDATE: there are a few example "interludes" now here and here. To provide brief "breaks" in the WatchKnow Reader presentations, I'm going to display random artworks & music for a short period. I'm developing a list of the artworks. Here is what I have so far. Any requests? Obviously,…
February 9, 2011
Looong interview with me by Dan Schneider in Cosmoetica
Off and on, for the last 2.5 years, I have been answering questions from poet and critic Dan Schneider, who has conducted a series of long, interesting interviews. My interview, posted a few hours ago, is #27 in the series; Schneider himself gives the interview four stars (out of five). That…