Overheard at the dining room table:<\/p>\n
“Take that<\/strong><\/em>, Math Machine!!”<\/p>\n I need to thank Asperger Ninja for sharing her light-bulb moment<\/a><\/strong><\/em> that led to my own light-bulb moment, that led to today’s highly enthusiastic, verbally interactive, and mathematically startlingly successful session in online tutoring at the Kahn Academy<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 As often as I tout the glorious flexibility of homeschooling, I baffle myself with how often my thinking becomes boxed in by traditional methods, even when it comes to my most challenging student.\u00a0 The really dumb thing is, I discovered the Kahn Academy months ago, but it took me until today, after reading someone else’s “Aha!”\u00a0 to actually sit him down in front of it and let him try.<\/p>\n And that’s just one reason why this wonderful thing called the internet community is so terrific:\u00a0 shared inspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Overheard at the dining room table: “Take that, Math Machine!!” I need to thank Asperger Ninja for sharing her light-bulb moment that led to my own light-bulb moment, that led to today’s highly enthusiastic, verbally interactive, and mathematically startlingly successful session in online tutoring at the Kahn Academy.\u00a0 As often as I tout the glorious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26,4,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autism","category-curriculum","category-home-schooling","category-netties-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2872,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions\/2872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}