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Sandra Dodd
Personal blog · sandradodd.comcultureother
Sandra Dodd's personal blog at sandradodd.com covers culture. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sandra Dodd's site as a source on unschooling, the idea that students set their own curriculum. Commenters cite it while debating whether unschooling works and how learning outside school goes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The main entrance to the burgeoning website of Sandra Dodd
What Hacker News says?
There was one in London in Covent Garden market around the same era (perhaps a small chain, or perhaps just a similar name). One image that I remember being particularly impressed by was a model of a radio telescope dish. You could look around the dish and see all the support gantry. The contrast between the smooth dish face and the structure on the other side made the 3D nature very dramatic. On the counter they ha…
Comment linking /airpig.html
on “Whatever became of holography? (2011)”Submitted Average Age of Spontaneous Reading in Unschooled Children 9 Years Old as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt doesn't make them go through textbooks. But it doesn't stop them either, and often a decent textbook is the best way to learn about a subject. As someone who chose to learn some subjects outside of school (usually years before they would have been taught), I tended to read textbooks my older siblings had used—did this for algebra, physics, and calculus—although I didn't do that many problems from the textbooks. (…
Comment linking /school/textbooks
on “When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion”Much of this is the premise of 'unschooling', Sandra Dodd's conception of learning wherein students set the curriculum. I'm not a fan of a lot of her ... ways ... but the idea does have some attractiveness and seems to work well in at least some instances. https://www.sandradodd.com/
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on “Ask HN: How do we build the new remote education system”>that's simply because that's how they are treated. Bingo! By forcing kids to go to school through 18 where they make basically NO choices that affect their lives, are taught things that more than half the time the teachers can't even tell them why they need to know them ("for college" isn't a real answer, either) -- all of this treats them like infants. Even infants manage learn to speak and walk without being "tau…
Comment linking /unschooling
on “Is 25 the new cut-off point for adulthood?”
