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« Reply #30 on: January 24, 2008, 05:08:38 PM » |
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I'm not sure what you mean by "echo chamber." Can you clarify?
From Wiki: One purveyor of information will make a claim, which many like-minded people then repeat, overhear, and repeat again (often in an exaggerated or otherwise distorted form) until most people assume that some extreme variation of the story is true. Due to this condition arising in online communities, participants may find their own opinions constantly echoed back to them, and in doing so reinforce a certain sense of truth that resonates with individual belief systems. This can create some significant challenges to critical discourse within an online medium. The echo-chamber effect may also impact a lack of recognition to large demographic changes in language and culture on the Internet if individuals only create, experience and navigate those online spaces that reinforce their "preferred" world view. |
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« Reply #31 on: January 25, 2008, 07:17:08 AM » |
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Ah...gotcha  Thanks! Trust me, I didn't feel, and still don't, that I'm in an echo chamber. Not very many people I talk to are supportive of homeschooling, unless they were either homeschooled or are homeschooling themselves. I wouldn't mind finding a few "like-minded people."  |
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« Reply #32 on: January 25, 2008, 09:17:27 AM » |
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I remember my mom considering home-schooling for, like, a minute. That's when I was 11 and I was not supportive of that idea at all. Home-schooling was different then, though. And there are so many opportunities now, concerning education and socialization. I've met some well-adjusted home-schoolers who are brilliant, and some not so well-adjusted. It just depends on the parent. I think Michelle will do a good job, though.
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« Reply #33 on: January 25, 2008, 12:38:40 PM » |
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Michelle, I wasn't talking about you and I don't know the exact circumstances concerning your kid or your teaching abilities.
I feel like a lot of people homeschooling for religious are moral reasons are creating a sort of echo chamber for their children/students to which certain things aren't adequately expressed or explained in a candid and complete manner.
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« Reply #34 on: January 25, 2008, 01:23:48 PM » |
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Thanks, Brandy!  Anxiety - Gotcha again I definitely don't want Shane sheltered (my term). Amanda - why are you against homeschooling? |
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« Reply #35 on: January 25, 2008, 02:23:55 PM » |
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I feel like a lot of people homeschooling for religious are moral reasons are creating a sort of echo chamber for their children/students to which certain things aren't adequately expressed or explained in a candid and complete manner.
This is a big one. I, too, feel this way. I don't really hear of people outside of the Christian world that homeschool. That, I think, is why my mom even remotely considered it (I could be wrong, but that's the way it seemed). There was a lot of pressure to be a certain way and do things a certain way. Homeschooling or going to a private school made it seem like you were more "Christian." I think there's a misconception in the church about the world and the role we play in it. We seperate ourselves, alienate ourselves. It makes it hard for people to want to talk to us. That's just my personal experience and I was very young. Home schooling has changed. It has potential, but like I said, it depends on the motives and the way it's done. |
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« Reply #36 on: January 25, 2008, 04:43:16 PM » |
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I feel like a lot of people homeschooling for religious are moral reasons are creating a sort of echo chamber for their children/students to which certain things aren't adequately expressed or explained in a candid and complete manner.
Have to agree.  The people that I have known who homeschooled, did indeed create an echo chamber for their kids, with all of its inherent faults of bigotry, religious zeal, and a fear of being in a group of people who did not "think" like they did. It also tends toward parents creating a situation where they can manipulate and control every part of their child's life. To the point of picking out who their children will date and if the parents of the other children were "christian" enough. But if the kids get lots of interactions with outside influences, they tend to become individual thinkers, which is what we all want for our kids. To be able to handle life in a responsible manner. |
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« Reply #37 on: June 20, 2008, 12:28:17 PM » |
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I see two problems with what is beign discussed here.
First, Michelle is referring to the usage of outside tutoring. This wil allow for outised opinions and ways of thinking to be allowed in.
Second, you are assuming that public schooling gives more outside opinions. This is a very false assumption. I grew up in rural florida. There was only one way of thinking in my schools. If a teacher didn't like it, they were kicked out of teahching there.
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A child recently asked me what eight times four is. I thought about it for a while. I put together some experiments. I ran some tests. I searched through numerous published articles on number theory.
I then came back to the child and responded, "What's a 'four'?"
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« Reply #38 on: June 20, 2008, 01:39:01 PM » |
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I see two problems with what is beign discussed here.
First, Michelle is referring to the usage of outside tutoring. This wil allow for outised opinions and ways of thinking to be allowed in.
Second, you are assuming that public schooling gives more outside opinions. This is a very false assumption. I grew up in rural florida. There was only one way of thinking in my schools. If a teacher didn't like it, they were kicked out of teahching there.
Outised? Did you mean outside opinions? And why would outside opinions and ways of thinking be a problem? Just wanting more clarification |
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« Reply #39 on: June 20, 2008, 05:48:07 PM » |
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I belief USFEngineering was making the point that sometimes you only get one opinion in a public school. Whatever the teacher or administration is pushing - as noted byAmanda.
My thread was about outside influences, from other children - not the schools. Just for clarification.
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