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Online history teaching for KidsA lesson about the Wright Brothers

A Good Tool of Homeschooling

• Education of school-aged children at home rather than at a school (Lines,1993)

• The world is their classroom (Lyon,1994)

Why Homeschooling?

• Historical Strains:– Religion (Raymond Moore)– Counterculture ( John Holt)

• Modern Reasons: (Office of Nonpublic Schools and Program Support,1996)

– dissatisfaction with the public schools, – the desire to freely impart religious values, – academic excellence, – the building of stronger family bonds.

Types of Families Choose Homeschooling

Ideologues Pedagogues

Ideologues• the religious conservatives whom homeschooling

attracts. (Galen & Pittman,1991)• learn fundamentalist religious doctrine and a

conservative political and social perspective• the family is the most important institution in society

Pedagogues

• dislike the professionalization and bureaucratization of modern education.

• well educated parents

Comparison Between Homeschooled Children and

Conventionally Schooling Children

• Academic (Shyers, 1992)– Above the average

• Socialization (Shyers, 1992)– No difference– Better behavior

Pretraining Principle

Great Interface

normal

wrong

right

Affordances and Natural Mapping

Temporal/Spatial Contiguity

Segmenting

Segmenting

Signaling

Modality

Redundancy

Constraints

affordance

Constraints

Constraints

Online lesson and classroom environment

Teaching history

• Course Content

(American History Association, 1997/2008

Teaching history

• Historical thinking

(American Hisory Association, 1997/2008

Teaching history

• Classroom Environment

(American Hisory Association, 1997/2008

Teaching history

• Students Evaluation

(American Hisory Association, 1997/2008

Conclusion

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