Sunday, May 9, 2010

Homeschooling - Technological Benefits for Your Child

There are many good reasons to consider homeschooling as an alternative to a public or private school system for your child. Support, flexibility, technological advantages, quality, and creativity are five major benefits to homeschooling.

As a home educator, you'll find great flexibility in your daytime activities. You'll have control over your day and your child's social activities, arranging get-togethers, taking educational day trips, and engaging in other fun activities.

Second, home educators have available to them a great support system, both at home and outside the home. If you are stuck on a subject you're not sure how to teach, finding online tutors tutors for these subjects. Additionally, with the wealth of curriculum and learning materials, learning management system courses and other internet resources, you'll find plenty of support. Coggno is now offering a free trial for home educators on its learning management system. Create online courses for home use, or for syndication.

Which leads to our third benefit: home educators have access to and control over the best educational web 2.0 tools for crafting a robust learning experience. Online work serves to complement lessons, activities and assignments. Learning management systems are a convenient and easy way to improve students' ICT skills and familiarize them with new technology.

See Related Post: Learning From Home - 5 Reasons to Homeschool Your Child

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