Learning Outsiders

The End and the Beginning

My youngest daughter started school today, aged 13. Both of my children now go to school so, in many ways, our unschooling journey is at an end.

I guess unschooling doesn’t strictly mean not going to school: unschooling is about being learner-led. Going to…

Code, Discovery and Learning

A couple of days ago my girls suddenly decided to learn coding.

Story Times

I asked a question on Twitter earlier today about historical novels for my eldest daughter (she’s thirteen).

SNOFCOIN: Creating Physical Tokens

Today we spent some time manufacturing our first physical “coins”. We’ve been thinking about how to…

Making a Maths Field Kit

Tuning In

When you approach things from an unschooling perspective you’re used to tuning in—listening to what interests your children and what they want to explore. But you also start to tune into the world more yourself.

Feel of Failure

There’s a lot of theory about failure and how good/useful/essential it is, but like many educational concepts it’s one of those things that hangs around at the back of my head: I might agree with its importance even if I haven’t given it a lot of thought on a personal level.