Does anyone out there in social.coop land (or my wider network) have experience/links/examples of #HomeEducation #cooperatives (particularly, but not essentially in a UK context)?

Context:

We have a lovely local group of #HomeEd families here, kids currently from 0-10yo, various approaches but quite a strong skew towards #UnSchooling/ #SelfDirectedLearning. Centred around a weekly session in a local community hall.

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A digital guide for families interested in #selfdirectedlearning — available via Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/learning-untamed-allisonn-church/1143394570?ean=2940160834092

Good Sunday, #homeschool, #HomeEducation, #unschooling, & #SelfDirectedLearning families. Week 2 slow #HSchat is all about history and science curriculum. Tell us your favorite. What did you like most about it? How did your kids engage with it? OR, flip the questions and tell us about your least favorite curriculum & why you feel like you wasted $$ on it.

Remember: Use the hashtag #HSchat in replies & check back throughout the week for replies so you can keep the convo going.

RT @RobBrinded
This is my wife’s account about #selfdirectedlearning / #unschooling project in #madeira - stay up to date with all that’s happening @a_place_to_be ❤️ #Bitcoin @FREEMadeiraOrg @PrinceySOV @andreloja

@shaninthewoods Taking the ego out of #unschooling and the parent side of #SDL #SelfDirectedLearning << yes to this. I think the hardest part is having faith that the #learning lulls will eventually lead to learning leaps. #HSchat

Hey #HomeEducation, #unschooling, and #SelfDirectedLearning #SDL families: Today’s a good day to start that slow chat we talked about before the new year - where we pose a question and folks take time to repsond to the thread throughout the coming days? The goal is to create a supportive community for those who chose to educate their kids at home.

Wk 1 #HSchat: Briefly intro yourself & describe your #homeschool philosophy. What's the most challenging part of educating your own kids?

@esnyder @JennyAnyDot I would love to see a weekly slow-chat on rotating #homeschool, #SelfDirectedLearning and #unschooling topics

To my #DigitalHumanities & #AI/#ML folk: As a #SelfDirectedLearning indie #CitizenScientist, I am reluctant to make a clean break and move to the m’don federation. Twitter has been an essential channel for evolving my #PLN Personal Learning Network. At 71-yo, I know how impossible it was in the pre-Internet world to engage directly with world class researchers in your domain of interest. But I increasingly feel uncomfortable with how things are evolving at Twitter. Hello from Colorado USA, 👋🤓✌️

I'm not going to talk about the actual study results because it was an online market research survey of random parents during covid19 w/ presumably have no personal frame of reference for what unschooling actually is, but let's take a look at the study's discussion of findings and how there's now quantifiable evidence that shows parents don't know enough about #SelfDirectedLearning to figure out how to #unschool on their own and it's up to the #academic "experts" to tell them how to do it. /4

Hi @acpresso 👋🤓✌️TY4Follow. Given your linguistic interest, you may be interested in this article: https://bit.ly/Witmores-text. I wrote this post-cancer in 2015 at start of my rebirth as a #DigitalHumanities #CitizenScientist. This helped me develop my #SelfDirectedLearning #PLN Personal Learning Network by opening communication with #digitization researchers like @patrick_sahle asking them for feedback & resource suggestions.

#Introduction (again), since I changed instances **and** lost all my followers and following. I'm a K to college #homeschool mom. For 10+ years, I led a secular statewide advocacy group & helped write @HomeEducation regulations in #Maryland. I like to toot about serendipitous learning opps, #SelfDirectedLearning, & #unschooling. I offer critical analysis of #homeschool research because if we want respect as a valid #SchoolChoice, we can't push BS statistics.

My 10 year old is reading book after book to my friends’ 3 year old. 3 year old just said “You’re my best favorite girl!” #selfdirectedlearning #SelfDirectedEducation #unschooling

@ct_bergstrom - As an unfunded #DigitalHumanities & #AI/#ML #CitizenScientist and #DisabledDeveloper, the move to online & hybrid events has been a pandemic-accelerated helpful side-effect for us #SelfDirectedLearning folk. Combined with #OpenAccess publishing and #AcademicTwitter for my #PLN Personal Learning Network, I hope many of these trends become the #NewNormal.

Here's a free & open access version of our article in Teaching & Learning in Medicine about self-directed learning - "Self-Directed Learning in Medical Education: Training for a Lifetime of Discovery", in which we define the concept of SDL in Medical Education, (SDL-ME) - a construct of learning and pedagogy specific to medical students & physicians in training. #meded #selfdirectedlearning #SDL #SDL-ME

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZZVWUDSAJNMXJMXUF6VB/full?target=10.1080/10401334.2021.1938074

I hear this comment a lot in conventional circles, “I’m her Mom/teacher, not her friend.” I mean, with regards to my kids & the 25-30 kids whose educations I facilitate at Bungalow Lane, I hope I am both? I have not found it hard to be both. #selfdirectedlearning #unschooling

Time for an #introduction, then. I gather these should use a lot of hashtags...

Professionally, I'm CTO of https://cydarmedical.com (#MedicalImaging #Python #TypeScript #CloudComputing). Personally, I'm @TorRho 's other half, and when I'm not working I'm mostly busy looking after our two daughters. (#HomeEd #SelfDirectedLearning).

Other interests come and go, but currently include #keyboards, #apple, #ThePeripheral, #vr and #AI. My #blog has been going for 20 years and I've no plans to stop.