Before Long, Platform Will Be Irrelevant to Genealogists

I started my next project. Actually, it’s a BHAG—big, hairy, audacious goal. I’m building a source-based genealogy application. It will be an Internet application, so your operating system of choice is irrelevant. Here’s my concise description:

An Internet application for recording, analyzing, and presenting chains of genealogical evidence and the lineages they document.

I’m calling it Lineascope™.

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Unschooling is Intrinsically Rewarding

I’ve been reading Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Many ideas in the book resonate with me. This one I encountered last night is a good example:

“When experience is intrisically rewarding life is justified in the present, rather than being held hostage to a hypothetical future gain.”

It connected for me because I’ve been thinking about unschooling lately and I think the truth of his statement helps to explain why unschooling is natural and compulsory education is unnatural. When learning is intrinsically rewarding, life is justified in the present. When learning is compulsory, life is held hostage to another’s desired future.

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AKA Diego

My son has been enjoying the Go, Diego, Go series over the past  couple of months. For the uninitiated, Diego and his sister Alicia are animal scientists who rescue animals. Logan likes playing animal rescue missions and has recruited his sister Paige.  He can often be heard saying, “I’m Diego and she’s Alicia.”
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What I Learned Watching My Son Play Harbor Master

My son Logan and I have been playing a game called HarborMaster on my iPhone lately. In the game, the player controls the incoming and outgoing ships in a harbor. One guides ships into docks, which are sometimes color coded, and back out to open water after their cargo is unloaded. The goal is to [...]

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