Author: Larry Sanger
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On changing student beliefs
I came across a very irritating post in the Coffee Theory blog by Greg Linster, and felt inspired to respond. This began as a comment on his blog, but after a while it […]
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Nominate Reading Bear for an Edublog award!
Hey, I can’t nominate ReadingBear.org myself in the Edublog Awards “Best free web tool” category, but it would be grand if you did! We need the publicity–we just launched! And don’t forget WatchKnowLearn.org in […]
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The case for using Reading Bear in preschools
Or, how and why to use Reading Bear in preschools. First, let me say what I am not arguing for here. I am not arguing that preschoolers should be required to learn to read, […]
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What are the best books about countries for children?
As I explained in an earlier post, my older son (age 5) and I are reading through books about most of the countries of the world. In the last few months we’ve gotten […]
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Post-launch raves about Reading Bear
Here’s a run-down of the initial publicity and online buzz about Reading Bear. Reading Bear was on the front page of the high-profile tech blog TheNextWeb.com yesterday, with this article. Techie Buzz “Reading Bear […]
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Why build a site that teaches children to read?
Or: why am I spending over a year of my life developing a reading tutorial for little kids? You might think such a question invites boring platitudes of the sort that afflicts a […]
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Reading Bear launches!
All, after a lot of planning and even more work, Reading Bear is now live on ReadingBear.org. We are launching with 14 presentations, averaging around 15 minutes per presentation–in the longest of seven […]
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The “times-are-changing, specific-knowledge-is-unnecessary” canard
I don’t know how many times I have read, “The world, and research findings, are changing so fast that it is pointless to insist on learning particular bits of knowledge. Much of it […]
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Unobvious concepts that are important, but rarely taught
To understand history, geography, fiction, and a whole lot else besides, it is fairly important that children be taught in considerable depth certain practical yet universal concepts about history that, I think, are […]
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My “for kids” videos
Here are some of my videos for little kids. Some of them, like “Counting to 100” and “The Moon for Kids,” are getting pretty popular on YouTube. You can also find these (accessible […]