AHA Citizen Journal

Helen Hegener posted a heads up late last week on Home Education Magazine.

Below is a 2008 article on the Fox News website about unschooling:

‘World of Warcraft’ Gets Kids Interested in School

But the person talking in this case is Constance Steinkuehler, an educational researcher who organized an afterschool group for boys to play, for educational purposes, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
Some of the eighth graders and high school freshmen who signed up for the group couldn’t have cared less about writing or reading in school.
Yet those students have gone from barely stringing together two sentences to writing lengthy posts in their group’s Web site forum, where they discuss detailed strategies for gearing up their virtual characters and figuring out tough quests.
“It has worked ridiculously well,” Steinkuehler said. “It shouldn’t be working as well as it is.”
Video games are also being embraced by some advocates of “unschooling,” a type of home schooling that puts kids more in charge of the curricula.

Continued at the site.