'Never Let Schooling Get in the Way of Your Education' at PBS's Media Shift blog talks about how unschoolers are increasingly embracing media and technology, especially online communities:
At one time, the two core disadvantages of homeschooling were the absence of contact with a larger community of young people and a lack of access to the rich resources of the school library. Digital culture has turned both situations on their heads. [MIT Comparative Media Studies graduate student Vanessa] Bertozzi's thesis describes the ways that unschoolers use social networking software such as Friendster and MySpace to expand the social and intellectual contacts available to their children; she documents ways that, say, homeschoolers are "smart mobbing" field trips, bringing kids from across the city together at an art gallery, science museum, or historic site at a specific moment of time; they share their work with others via Flickr, getting feedback from the unschooling community at large. Of course, unschoolers also interact face to face with friends, neighbors, and others who actively contribute to the learning process.
And of course, they're congregating in places like this. Interesting read.
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