by Lehla Eldridge in
02 parenting for the future, 07 Unschooling, 08 self-directed learning, 15 Entrepreneurship, 25 Social Media, 31 Technology, 38 Money

You don’t need to go to school to be a self made millionaire

This morning my husband shows me the Instagram account of a self made Italian millionairess who has made her fortune via Instagram. She just takes pictures of herself, in various outfits, looking sometimes like a model and sometimes quite normal. She has done this for years and now gets paid by fashion houses to promote their fashions. I assume that is how she has made her millions. My knee jerk judgmental response was that she is narcissistic. But that would be missing the point. She is clever. She has made

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by Lehla Eldridge in
02 parenting for the future, 09 For Parents, 25 Social Media, 28 Self Care, 31 Technology, 30 Screen Time

To All the Changemakers Embracing New Ways of Learning

I was really intrigued by the fact that I was called a ‘junkie’ yesterday, admittedly a technology junkie but a ‘junkie’ all the same. In fact the whole family were called ‘Technology Junkies,’ on Twitter, followed by a smile and a wink. I did a bit of self-management, as I nearly did a Twitter knee jerk. But my better self, spoke to my not so great self and had a word. The word was, well words were…’This is not about you.’ I was interested as It came from a well

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by Lehla Eldridge in
02 parenting for the future, 06 homechooling, 07 Unschooling, 08 self-directed learning, 25 Social Media, 31 Technology, 36 Community

The World in My Living Room and the Beauty of the School in the Cloud…

The world is moving fast technologically. Our kids will quickly out-run us with their abilities on a computer and on keeping up with the web. We have decided to embrace it for all its positive aspects and use it as a tool to connect, share and generally be curious about the world, which really is in our living room. How this actually plays out. One thing we is do S.O.L.E projects, what is that? S.O.L.E stands for Self Organised Learning Experiences. This is a programme set up by Sugata Mitra,

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