iLearn@Home

Okay, that title is a bit misleading as I am probably the most technically savvy amongst my friends. Husband and I have both worked in high-tech for nearly 2 decades (ouch!), but we raised our daughter media free (no TV, no movies, no computers, no electronic toys, video games) until she was about 4. Then, we started allowing very brief viewing of DragonFlyTV, which are these fabulous 9-minute videos of kids exploring science. They were educational, engaging, and short! 

We took it slowly over the years (Daughter is nearly 7), and as we became homeschoolers (yep, chalk another one up to “weird parents”), we started to see some real benefit to using technology in our teachings. 

Now, we use our all our iGadgets-iPhones, iPad, iMac, MacBook, Kindle, cameras, Flip, AppleTV to do some super cool things with our learning. We still don’t watch TV (except for streaming Mythbusters from Netflix), she has seen quite a few non-fictional, documentary style films, and very few fictional movies (by her choice now.)

I need a place to keep track of the things we use, don’t use, want to use. If anyone else wants to come along for the ride, that’s fine with us!