HS FAQ 8

NOTE: This message was originally in conference “Home Education [FIDO]”

and was copied here by Ron Bowden.

NOTE: This message was originally in conference “Home Education [RIME]”

and was copied here by Ron Bowden.

Salutations from Ron Bowden:

Home Education – Frequently Asked Questions Page 8 Included in the report is a summary of telecommunications functions that support educational purposes. It goes on to provide an overview and detailed information on a variety of telecommunications service providers, including: * The Internet — the data highway * General purpose, commercial networks that provide educational services * Regional and statewide networks * Library access networks * Special purpose networks * Bulletin board systems There is also a section that reports the results of interviews with several telephone homework hotlines, which can be used as a model for computer network-based tutoring services. To receive a copy of this report, please contact Samuel Y. Gibbon, Jr. or Sue Estelle, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 630 Fifth Avenue, Suite #2550, New York, New York 10111, 212 649 1649.

From: dkline@nrel.gov (David Kline) My oldest (13) has gotten considerable mileage out of an educationally- chartered online resource called Cyberion City. In fact, Howard Rheingold thought this was such a novel idea — the use of a MUD in homeschooling — that he wrote it up as a sidebar to the article in Wired magazine (July/Aug 1993). I’d be happy to send further details and instructions to get to Cyberion City to anyone who would like it. Just email me: kline@well.sf.ca.us is the preferred address.

RESOURCE GUIDE

The following resources have been mentioned by various members of the Home Education mailing list.

The call numbers are from records in OCLC, the national bibliographic database, mostly from Library of Congress input records. Most libraries will have kept at least the beginning part of the number the same, the characters following the period may differ. When there was more than one edition, the most recent one is given (in hopes that the book will still be in print!)

Books:

Beechick, Ruth You CAN teach your child successfully:grades 4 to 8 Arrow Press, 1988 ISBN:0940319055 LC:LB1048.5 .B44 1988 Dewey:649/.68

Colfax, David Homeschooling for Excellence Warner Books, 1988 ISBN:0446389862 LC:LC40 .C65 1988 Dewey:649/.68

Gatto, John The Exhausted school : the first national grassroots speakout on the right to school choice NY: Smith & Varina, Odysseus Group, 1993. ISBN 0-945700-02-1 Dumbing us down: the hidden curriculum of compulsory schooling Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1992. ISBN: 0-86571-230-1, ISBN: 0-86571-231-X (pbk.) LC: LA2317.G33 A3 1992

Hirsh, E.D., Jr., editor What your 1st Grader Needs To Know:Fundamentals of a Good First-Grade Education Doubleday, 1991,2 1st grade ISBN:0385411154 LC:LB1571 1st .W53 1991 Dewey:372.19 2nd grade ISBN:0385411162 LC:LB1571 2nd .W47 1991 Dewey:372.19 3rd grade ISBN:0385411170 LC:LB1571 3rd .W47 1992 Dewey:372.19 4th grade ISBN:0385411189 LC:LB1571 4th .W48 1992 Dewey:372.19

Holt, John Teach Your Own: A Hopeful Path for Education Delta/Seymour Lawrence, 1989 ISBN:0440550556 LC:LC37 .H66 1989 Dewey:649/.68 Learning All The Time Addison-Wesley, 1989 ISBN:0201550911 LC:LB1060 .H66 1989 Dewey:372 A Life Worth Living: Selected Letters Of John Holt Ohio State Univ Press, 1990 ISBN:0814205232 LC:LB885.H64 L54 1990 Dewey:371.1/0092