Month Archive - 2006 October
Texting VS Writing: The Problem with Instant Messaging
October 26, 2006 Q: When is talking on your phone not talking? When it's texting! At the ripe old age of 25 I thought myself to be fairly au courant — that my online skills weren't at all lacking, or needing of improvement. That is until I added my 13-year-old cousin to my ... more
TED Talks - Sir Ken Robinson on Education
October 18, 2006 Sir Ken Robinson, author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, gives an entertaining and touching talk on children and their native creative abilities. Uncommon Genius by Denise Shekerjian is also worth a look. In it she interviews 40 winners of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship award - an ... more
Handwriting Skills: Neatness Counts!
October 11, 2006 Have you ever gotten a test back and you had lost marks because of messiness, or because the teacher couldn't read some of what you had written? My son brought home a test the other day and he had lost ten marks because the teacher couldn't read what he had ... more
Does my child need a tutor?
October 4, 2006 It's a month plus into the school year, and your child is probably settling into a homework routine. But what if you've read the homework tips, and tried them all out, and that homework time is less of a routine, and more of a headache? Does this mean that your ... more
The Homework Debate - Is It Time to Get Rid of Homework?
October 2, 2006 Where do you stand on the homework issue? You may have noticed that there is a lot of talk surrounding the topic of Homework. A number of books(see below) have recently appeared criticizing homework claiming that kids gain nothing from doing the tons of homework they are assigned. Some even ... more
