technologies that allow them to pursue self-directed learning on their own terms and on their own time schedules

Project Based Homeschooling shared on Facebook:

“I think the potential is really there for us to be raising a new generation of young people who have grown up with technologies that allow them to pursue self-directed learning on their own terms and on their own time schedules.
This is very different from how kids learn in school, where they’re handed a set body of knowledge that they’re asked to master and the expertise really resides in the teacher.
When kids go online in these more informal contexts where they’re pursuing their interests, they can really go, look around, and connect with knowledge, people, online communities that really enable them to tailor and customize what they want to learn, when they want to learn it.
And that is tremendously empowering for kids and motivating for them to learn.” — Dr. Mizuko Ito