Angie DiGiacomo, Amanda DErrico, Laura Gibson, Staci Silverstein

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Usefulness of Technology in Home Schooling

• By
• Angie DiGiacomo, Amanda DErrico, Laura Gibson,
  Staci Silverstein

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Usefulness

• Eighty five percent of home school families own a
  computer.
• With the aid of technology in a home school
  setting parents are able to instill moral
  teachings, religious principles, and are able to
  strengthen the family by keeping them together
  longer.
• Before the use of technology and the internet
  students had to learn straight from a book with
  no deviance.

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Usefulness continued

• The internet and other technological sources are
  more up to date on current issues.
• Students with learning disabilities or students
  learning to read can use a new text to speech
  component on the internet where the student is
  able to highlight the text and the computer will
  audibly read the text back to the student.

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Programs

• Through the internet parents are able to find
  different CD-ROM programs, educational websites,
  sponsored websites, and interactive software to
  educate the home schooled students.
• CD-ROM programs can range in their information
  that is being presented. A program can be a game
  where the student does not realize they are
  learning.

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Programs continued

• Technology advances helps the home schooled child
  and parents to be able to access more information
  than ever before including technical support for
  the students.
• Homeshooling.com is an example of an education
  website.

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Effectiveness of Programs

• By home schooling their children, students can
  utilize many resources especially through the
  computer and can learn on their own without
  distraction.
• Some sites have filtered software built in so
  that students do not have access to inappropriate
  sites.

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Effectiveness of Programs Continued

• Home schoolers have more freedom to succeed or to
  fail than with their programs than institutional
  schools because they are only responsible for one
  child.
• By using the computer in home schooling, not only
  does the computer do minor work like calculating
  math or flash cards, but it brings students more
  than just what their parent can teach them.

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Student Affects

• The simple answer to this question is Yes,
  technology has affected students education while
  being home schooled.
• Technology is around us everywhere and doesnt
  only affect our education but our personal life
  as well.
• For educational purposes technology allows us to
  write papers and prepare presenations. The
  personal advantages are allowing us to check our
  e-mail and connect to friends through Myspace and
  Facebook.

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Student Affects Cont.

• Before the popular use of the internet, home
  schooling resources were mainly located at the
  public library and home schooling networks were
  geographically defined.
• One fantastic web site used by home schooled
  students is Jon's Home school Resource Page
  http//www.midnightbeach.com/hs/. This is one of
  the best sites for home school resources, with
  hundreds of links to news groups, mailing lists,
  Web discussion boards, chat channels, and Web
  pages.

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The Credits!

• We hope you enjoyed our presentation about the
  Usefulness of Technology in Home Schooling.
• Have a FANTASTIC summer ! ! !