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Using multimedia in your homeschooling program

Using multimedia in your homeschooling program.

Many homeschoolers are beginning to think about how to create an educational program for their children that meets the needs of the students that we currently have, not the students that we used to have, nor the students ee wished we had. Homeschooling programs should adapt to today’s student, not them adapting to us. Homeschoolers should begin to think about how to adapt their world to today’s 21st-century. It is not wise to teach the sam,e exact way we have taught for the past 200 years anymore. It is important to change ourselves to adapt to their world

Today’s student who was born between 1982 and 2001 are the first people of the networked generation. They are hyper communicators, and when they are doing their schoolwork, they do not necessarily lose their desire to be in instant communication with everyone. Students are writing more blogs in short text messages than ever before. They are videotaping their lives. Do students even read lengthily documents anymore? I do not believe so. I believe that the rapid firing messages that our students are bombarded with on a daily basis have actually rewired the brain. Today’s students has grown up in a very visual environment, and they love it.

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One Response to “Using multimedia in your homeschooling program”

  1. Julie Carney Says:
    September 30th, 2008 at 7:30 am

    Thanks for this post. I think these are good points: “They are hyper communicators, and when they are doing their schoolwork, they do not necessarily lose their desire to be in instant communication with everyone.” I’m interested to hear how you would apply this understanding to the classroom.

    Your blog has given me some ideas for a site I recently launched with the NIFB Young Entrepreneur Foundation. If you get a chance, stop by and leave some feedback.

    Thanks!

    Julie
    http://youngentrepreneurfoundation.wordpress.com/

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