If you’ve read How to Tutor Your Own Child, you probably saw Chapter 6, “iDon’t Think iKnow Where My Homework Is: Helping Kids Connect and Organize for the Twenty-First Century.” In it, I address how to maximize the educational impact of 21st-century technologies.
Now, I wish I could go back and augment the section about Facebook–since the book’s publication, I’ve become much more familiar with Facebook accounts worth following. While I can’t amend the book, I can share information via this blog. So here, in no particular order, are some of my favorite Facebookers. For the most part, I’m letting their sites’ descriptions speak for themselves:
1. How to Tutor Your Own Child — Obviously this recommendation is a bit biased, but I do try to provide information that will benefit parent-tutors, from book recommendations (e.g., Cheaper by the Dozen) to educational conversation starters (“The 45 Most Powerful Images of 2011“) to video resources (YouTube’s education channel). I have 500+ fans and would love more!
2. Children’s Book-a-Day Almanac — “Daily children’s book recommendations and events from Anita Silvey.”
3. Play at Home Mom — “We are a group of moms who have a firm belief in positive parenting and play based learning. We hope to inspire, educate, uplift, and empower you all to be the best moms (and dads) you can be. ”
4. Read Aloud Dad — “Read Aloud Dad is all about children’s book reviews, read-aloud tips and advice for all those who are involved with reading to and with children!”
5. Tinkerlab — “TinkerLab aims to help parents tap into a child’s natural curiosities through creative experiments that support independent thinking, enthusiasm for the wonders of the world, problem posing and solving, and the imagination. The projects and ideas shared here are child-centered and value the processes of exploration, experimentation, and curiosity.”
6. Grammar Girl — I did mention Grammar Girl’s podcast in the book, but not her Facebook page. “Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Covering the grammar rules and word choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers, Grammar Girl makes complex grammar questions simple with memory tricks to help you recall and apply those troublesome grammar rules.”
7. I Can Teach My Child! — “Helping you be your child’s first teacher–Activities and resources for parents of children birth to 5 years.”
8. Our Montessori Home — Advice and resources from a Montessori family.
9. teachmama.com — “My goal is to sneak in a little bit of learning for my kiddos–disguised as fun–every day.”
Thanks to all of these Facebookers for their contributions to families everywhere!
Readers, what sites provide you with inspiration? Do you use any of the same resources that I do, or do you have other recommendations? Use the comment section (below) to share your favorite Facebook groups.