11% of parents use Alexa voice assistants to help them homeschool
One in ten parents admit to using voice assistants like Alexa and Siri when homeschooling their children, research has found. In a survey testing parents on primary school homework questions, only six per cent scored full marks. The vast majority are turning to technology – including artificial intelligence and the internet – for help.
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Coding, Kittens, and Unicorn Mermaids!
Running out of STEM resources for your students? Erase All Kittens is a multi-award-winning online adventure game that introduces professional coding skills to children aged 8-13, and inspires girls to code. So why Erase All Kittens? When Tim Berners-Lee was asked for an example of a popular use of the internet that he would never have predicted, he answered ‘Kittens’.
UK Officials Fear Homeschooled Students Will Go “Off-Grid”
Fears Children Going ‘Off-Grid’ As Homeschooling Up By 700%
The number of children being homeschooled has more than doubled in five years, and in some areas has risen by more than 700%. And parts of the country where only a small number of children were registered as being homeschooled five years ago are now reporting figures in the hundreds.
Homeschooling up 40% in UK Over Three Years
Thousands more children are homeschooled
The number of children being homeschooled has risen by about 40% over three years, the BBC has found. Across the UK 48,000 children were being home-educated in 2016-17, up from about 34,000 in 2014-15.
Homeschoolers in Scotland: Unregistered and Unmonitored—Evening Times
Concern over monitoring of home-schooled children in the city
The current homeschooling laws have created a “hidden population” of children which is impossible to monitor, officials in Glasgow have warned. Under the current law, parents are not required to register their children for homeschooling.