Free Choice Learning: A Family Affair
What is Free Choice Learning?
“Free-choice learning is an essential component of lifelong learning. Surfing the Internet, participating in book discussion groups, watching nature documentaries on television, checking out books at the library or visiting museums with friends and family are all examples of free-choice learning. Free-choice learning is an important way people come to know about their world.”
- Institute for Learning Innovations
Why is Free Choice Learning an Important Part of Family Learning?
Any learning that goes on outside of a structured school environment is free choice learning. Many of these experiences are shared with family and friends. Thus a large part of Free Choice Learning is Family Learning. Just like when your family visits The Children’s Museum of Cleveland.
Need some ideas for Free Choice Learning?
Well this all depends on your family. Ask your children what they might like to explore today, ask yourself what you would like explore as well. Actively engage in time spent together and abracadabra!…your family is emerged in a Free Choice Learning experience. Free Choice Learning is all around you. You might be surprised when you think about everything you learn in a day.
“Ideally during childhood people develop a foundation for lifelong learning and family members play a vital role in helping children develop a joy for learning and an understanding that learning is a process, something that all children and adults do, all their lives.”
- Lessons Without Limit; How Free-Choice
Learning is Transforming Education
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Happening in Each Exhibit and Beyond
