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city as floorplan
What wakes kids up?
What would wake the community up?
Most people aren’t lazy.
Yet by all appearances one might assume so.



Most people are craving work that matters.
Work they know they
can’t
do
by
themselves.
YOUth ideas on how to go about doing what matters.




                                                             Notice the
                                                          comments on
                                                          how hard this
                                                     is, how they need
                                                                  help.

                                                       Kids are craving
                                                             work that
                                                               matters.


                                   click to play
Noah sharing that for him, work that matters means he’s working with people.
I get real lazy when it comes to independent work.
This isn’t a classroom passion.
I need to connect to someone who knows it a lot better than I do.
I don’t know if I could do it by myself.
Work too hard to do by yourself?
Gus on something bigger than, something beyond. Hard work.
                             It’s more than an opportunity, it’s a responsibility.




The exhaustion from overextending yourself creatively is some of the best
exhaustion you will ever feel. An organization that provides a platform for people
to push into their fear will produce both better work and a better workforce.
                                                      - Seth Godin, Underextended
Work that is bigger than you, bigger than us?
What a boost to global net happiness it would be if we could positively activate the
             minds and bodies of hundreds of millions of people by offering them
                                                                 better hard work.

                                                 -Jane McGonigal, Reality is Broken
Community as a school:
   What if school’s setting were life,
   and kids were working
   on health,
   budget,
   environmental,
   etc, …
   problems?                                                                                 school as life



   From Edutopia: For college ready use PBL
                   ..three factors that support the success of a young person:
                   (1) A solid relationship with an adult mentor, such as a parent, priest, teacher, or coach;
                   (2) A sense of mastery that develops
                   (3) An internal sense of meaning and purpose


Perhaps better to say: For life         ready use 1-1, PBL as we know it, …on steroids.
                   Interdependency
                      and beyond
click to play                          click to play




click to play                              click to play

                  What if we all had a hunger to learn?

                  What if that was our only measure,
                                     are you hungry,
                          do you know how to feed your hunger?
                                             That could change a room.
  click to play
Community as a school:

               In the US, when you say real life people tend to define it as: outside of school.
                                                                             - Michael Wesch, K-State,



                What if school involved everyone, the entire town?
                Wouldn’t we all be better off?
                      Health - people being known by people
                      Budget – the more we know each other, the more we share
                      Environmental – the more we share, the less we need



Sir Ken writes in The Element of Grange Primary of Long Eaton, England, creating Grangeton, with its own
                                                                        mayor, council, newspaper, etc
and
Dennis Littky,’s The Met - where the community is the school’s floor plan.
One of our biggest inspirations for the city as floorplan came from Lisa Gansky’s
The Mesh.

She encouraged us to look in unlikely spaces, that weren’t being used, to seek
ways to share them for multi-use, so that we’re not needing more resources, as
we simply become more resourceful.




                                                     directory
ie: average use-time of a power drill? 12 min
                         so why do we all need one? no?




                Lisa Gansky, the future … is   sharing.   .
Our next big inspiration started with this conversation….




  Our first week in the Lab, August 2010, the kids were skyping with James Bach.
  They were already deep into the issue of homelessness and wanted to know his
  insight on how to solve it.

                  His answer set the stage for the rest of the year.

  James ‘ reply was that you can’t solve it by thinking you can manage people.

  Sustainable change begs choice.
He said the best you can do is provide the resources they would need to help
themselves, let them know you care, and then rather than try to manage them,
be available to them, along side them.
                        While listening to the convo – Sugata Mitra kept ringing in my ears.
                        His success – he provided the resources and left for 3 months at a
                                                                                      time.

James suggested the city with resource buildings rather than schools…. would
move a community toward a healthier means to learning/living.

*Our brilliant friend Adam Burk has helped clarify verbiage with his great insight in this matter.
Community as school could change the systems that are persistently producing conditions for poverty
to thrive.



Which we thought sounded great.
             And started to imagine how that could play out.


                                                            How we could call that school..
The conversation gyrated back and forth, as did almost every other
                                              conversation throughout the year,
                          between a specific situation (this time homelessness)
                                                          and redefining school.

After noticing the similarities of a literal
homeless person and a figurative
homeless student in a classroom,
they jumped to how we could then
help (provide resources, get out of
the way, be available) to make the
 time we spend together during the day
facilitate more self-directed, rich, passion
led learning, without chaos taking over,
through an interdependent status.

                                                   play Aimee explaining NY’s
                                                   interdependent status for teens
The crazy notion that each kid could essentially have their own self-made plan, allowed
us to envision the entire community as one school.
Visions from the previous year of the library being the hub of the school ….



… morphed into the idea of the
highschool buildings becoming
the hubs, or the resource centers,
for the entire town. The town as
one big school. Like a uni campus.

Resources,
lectures halls,
science labs,
art hall,                                      click to hear original Lab description
engineering hall,
everything/everyone is available – per choice.
And our third big inspiration came from Dennis Littky..



        He is doing something very similar at the Met in Providence RI.




                                      He has been doing something very similar.



                                                          For the last 11 years.
                                                                          dang.
I recently just met with Isaac Graves, of the Patchwork School in
Louiseville, CO. Patchwork is doing incredible things with younger kids.. As
you’ll see, Patchwork is one of our prototypes in the floor plan.

When I told Isaac about the kids’ ideas, he shared
with me the story of Yaacov Hecht,
and his Education Cities.


And I thought – whoa.
My thinking went immediately to
I Am
Anne’s museum of herself – to make your own go to
http://www.intel.com/museumofme/r/index.htm
And George Siemens saying we need the glue to affect the research of all
of these pockets of innovation.

The glue is us, no? We just need to talk more, connect the dots.
And our forth big inspiration came from Kevin.

He took us on a walk through Old Towne, teaching us how to find those unlikely spaces
                                                       Lisa Gansky was talking about.

             He taught us how to notice more and how to change a room.




      how can you
      change a room..
We kept thinking … about school as a business….
                                                   community as a school..




And then we starting walking through our town - imagining …


       how could this building come alive,

                                  how could that one be shared?
Throughout the year, we dreamed of such spaces, ones that would capture the
fluidity of the web: 24/7, ubiquitous, something for everyone, malleable, continually
morphing to suit the needs of whoever is in it.
Our first glimpse of this morphism was Palomar 5 (in 3 weeks).
Their white walled castle with the freedom to build and change and create, tickled
our fancy. As did the passion driven adventures that resulted from their 6 month stay.
Kosta Grammatis and @ahumanright.org in particular.

Now at the end of they year, we’re certain morph and malleable are key adjectives.




Austin on private space     Lucas sketching space       Clay on balance in space
Thinking on space (physical, emotional, mental) ..




 whiteboard walls               deep practice        dreaming boldly of spaces that
                                via Daniel Coyle     already exist –Lisa Gansky




sound proof
                               separate detox room      visualizing detox
rooms, space/tools
to skype


We walked Old Towne with Kevin. We walked 4th Street. We talked about Lisa
Gansky’s Mesh mentality, how we could do more with less. How we could create
new purpose for old spaces.
Lyndsay’s post as confirmation.


                     One answer to the question about the purposes and
                 values of education is that it should enable young people
                     to learn to participate in public spaces in which they
                  work with other students and teachers to negotiate and
                          collectively determine the direction of their own
                                                    institution and learning.



      The act of appropriating unused buildings to provide public spaces for
      free education is a provocation to think about what a "really free"
      education could be.



    Lyndsay Grant on Hacking Higher Education - Really Free School
          [if you don’t read the post.. they are doing this in London – offering free school in vacant spaces]
Doing what has been considered standard
                                  doesn’t equate with success anymore.




We need to be freeing kids up to
be themselves. Giving them space
to fail. Showing them we trust
learning. That it is that fascinating
and alluring.
                                        Lucas with a CSU student
                                        talking about space and
                                        permission to be.
Then we heard about




                      getting hired as a director of the MIT Media Lab.
                       His story is inspiring, to say the least, and his vision


                                                      turned up the volume.
Could we make this a place that would
accept me, and more importantly, be
able to keep people like me?

On the West Coast, you’ve got Peter
Thiel, paying people to drop out of
college. And I thought: let’s flip this
around. Aren’t there a bunch of those
people who dropped out who should
be here at the Media Lab and how can                            click here for entire interview
we figure that out? That’s one of my
missions.


  Lab goal: building/supporting spaces for all options (all people) within public ed.
  [homeschoolers/unschoolers, dropouts, rebels, 4.0’s, homeless -any that are disengaged.]
  When we exclude, we miss incredible adjacent possibilities. Nothing is for everyone.
                                                                           Let’s use that for good.
Similarities in with what Joi writes and what we’re doing/thinking in the Lab:

If we could figure out a way to be long term and agile and figure out an
investment structure for that, that is something Media Lab would be very good
at: something where we could have a long trajectory, yet create a short term
impact.
[Connected Adjacency – per Saul – our original doc]




For me international is not about building a humongous center in some place,
it’s how can I make everyone in the Media Lab be able to test their product in
Kenya, and make that as easy as walking across the street to the Harvard
Medical Center.
[The vision is not a Lab. The vision is a live community of choice. People in need of
detox or freed space to explore crazy ideas, can filter through the Lab. But the center is
the community.]




                                                           click here for entire interview
Similarities in with what Joi writes and what we’re doing/thinking in the Lab:


Everyone’s struggling with how you put the money together in a way that
creates maximum impact.
[The Mesh – the future of business is sharing. We don’t need more resources, we just
need to be more resourceful.]

What I’d like to do is bring people with me, and bring people back.
[Virtual convo that feels like you just met for coffee – Junto ?]

Once you start going to places you see that face-to-face is really
important.…..showing up everywhere.
[Town as campus, kids out in community doing real work, face to face.]

It’s all about diversity -- geographic, sector, and field diversity.
[Fractal thinking, what similarities/diff do we have when we zoom out. Ellen Langer –
prejudice decreases when discrimination increases – what is normal?]




                                                             click here for entire interview
Lucas wrote a brilliant paper.




          Instead of embracing the diversity of the human mind we have
                                   stigmatized
                                         the very differences
                                          that are so
                                                   characteristic of humans.
The DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) declared war on the introverts, and the
educationally challenged among others and has attempted to
                                   define what a normal human should be,
an extroverted individual who works well with people, progresses well in
conventional schooling, and will succeed in a conventional job.

                                                    Lucas, student, Stigmatizing the Human Mind




                                                                                looking to measure creativity.
Now we figure we know to much (and too little) to fold.
Moving forward in perpetual beta towards…
So what exactly are we facilitating?

                  What matters most – to an individual/community
                            20 characteristics of and from unschoolers


And how do we facilitate that?
                  Redefining NCLB – to create an ideal family situation for each student.
                         Declaration of Interdependence (1-1), and beyond




                                 ridiculous match up?
                  Is this 1-1 idea a
      Dennis Littky ran into that question when they started The Met , in Providence, RI.
                   Finding that Providence had over 500000 adult works and 40000 hs students
                                                                        helped ease the doubt.
beyond   1-to-1                           more ridiculous match up

Imagine who’s together in a room being per choice. [Rheingold/Shareski interview]
     Uni’s have used ratemyprofessors for years, because many professors are hired to do
          research, not to teach. So some sought protection from paying for a class with a
                                        professor who is not really interested in teaching.


Imagine if we used this type of match up for good.
    This would give teachers/professors insight on what’s working, what kids are a good
    match for them. This would give kids insight into what teachers/styles would be best
    for them. And these decisions would be being made with their mentor(s) – not just a
    whim.
    From our research, for every kid that likes/dislikes a teacher or a style, there is
    typically a match for the opposite opinion. And beyond.




                                                   Let’s bring people together per choice.
What if most of what we do on a daily basis, is actually getting in the way?



                                    What if we took more time to know someone?
                            What if the best medicine is to be known by someone?



         Ellen Langer, along with others I’m sure, has done extensive research on
         mindfulness, and how it plays out in every area of our lives.
         The simple act of noticing could change the room,
                                                             the world,
                                                                        … even you.
notice
A new paradigm shift.

The future of business is sharing.
The Mesh, Lisa Gansky




Getting to the heart of the matter begs a …




                                              to deck for culture of trust
YOUth ideas on healthy spaces..




                                           click to play




                                            more on this story
notice
The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression.

                          - Brian Sutton-Smith, leading Psychologist of Play
notice
Why community? Why connected adjacency?
There are more resources in an institutional setting..
              people and things. Let’s focus on that.

What if we provide resources..
            and let people design their own school?
So how do they learn?.. what do they need?




                                                 click to play
 Common statements in the Lab, I can’t stop learning, I want to learn everything.
When teenage girls can help organize events that unnerve national governments, without needing professional
organization or organizers to get the ball rolling, we are in new territory. As Mimi Ito describes the protesters,

Their participation in the protests was grounded less in the concrete conditions of their
everyday lives, and more in their solidarity with a shared media fandom…
Although so much of what kids are doing online may
look trivial and frivolous, what they are doing is
building the capacity to connect, to communicate, and
ultimately, to mobilize.
.. What’s distinctive about this historical moment and today’s rising generation is not
only a distinct form of media expression, but how this expression is tied to social
action.

                                                                     - via Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus
Amazing things coming out of what seems to
                                                                           be trivial… frivolous.
                                                                                                                         parent voice


                                                         Lab updates: 13 year old teaching game design, 10 year old
                                                         programming this your school design it, kids getting reg credit -
     Watching Daniel                                     some teachers saying they did more than expected, finding
                                                         ways to secure a teen shelter, public awareness to
     Coyle, learning                                     trafficking, robotic worlds, video editing, music comp.. etc
     about deep
     pratice.                                                                        Nothing new.. La de da.
                                                                      People are amazing if given space to be.
                                                                   Many of you are doing remarkable things.
                                                               Let’s save some money/time/stress/spirit /etc
                                                                                    and just call that school.




Note: We’ve learned just as much/more from those who didn’t experience expected outcomes
in the Lab. We know what doesn’t work and why. That helps us discriminate what does work.
It added stress to them though –Noble Prize awaits.
    Jane McGonigal writes, in Reality is Broken, of a future Noble prize where unlikely people are rewarded for hard work, work that matters.
What our failures produced this year 2010-2011:

              1)      The Lab vision (Lab site – request from parents, updates/etc )
              2)      CONNECTed – district vision
              3)      Options – empowering choice
              4)      a bold dream – history & floorplan
We gained a clearer vision:
            nothing is for everyone. choice empowers. your school/life design it.
            facilitation per 1-1 mentors. alongside, and beyond
            be you. share back: ie wikipedia, expositories, portfolio (behance), video log

We hope to gain further progress with these:
           tag Youtube (& video response) for video logging
           work on Junto-ish space to talk
           Jim and Sasha - working on virtual reality in Drupal. ie: collegeincolorado - but instead of
                                                     reading - they would become ie: a chiropractor, scientist, etc.

We got asked to post 10 times over the next year on dmlcentral
           (Mimi Ito, danah boyd, Ethan Zuckerman, Howard Rheingold, Cathy Davidson, Jeff Brazil, …)
            They have plans for 30 more youmedia ‘s at least 1 more quest2 learn
            2 page paper from 2008 (50 mill project) digital youth project
TSD
Nothing is for everyone.
  Let’s facilitate that.
      CONNECTed




                Dennis Littky, the city is our floorplan.
On waking up the community..
We talked to community members,
as potential mentors.
Would they be willing?
Would they be interested?
                                       We talked to the Mayor about what we could do.
                                       He gave us hard work. Work he can’t do alone.


(Barry video)

We talked to city people, about
planning together, legalizing street
art, occupying space, sharing
stories, bringing people together.     Aimee & Noah on teen          Aimee sharing their
                                       shelter & homelessness.       current thinking for
                                       See Michelle’s human          a teen shelter.
                                       trafficking event -slide 100.

                                              Working on this dream: tunnel jam
(Felicia and/or Marcie video)               And this one to share stories : street art
Dear Admin,                            Working on easier ways to credential work outside the course book.
Realizing your hands
are tied on many
things..

We (the Lab) can work
both in and out of the
system.                                                               Gus w/our superintendent
                                              Austin & Jenny Luca,
                                        speaking at Edubloggercon
Let us
do/support/facilitate
things you can’t.
                                          Check out wikicities
                 literacy standards       via Yaacov.
               who mandates this?
   math state standards to courses                                     Sam w/board member
                           and this?
The beauty of becoming yourself, making yourself, noticing more and
being more mindful, is that it empowers you to let go of yourself.
                   You start working for that something bigger than…
                                            … that something beyond.
                                             You start needing others.
                                             You start knowing others.
                                           You find yourself dreaming.
                                                      Dreaming boldly.


         So now, in sketching such spaces of collaboration, we’re using
                                       YOUmedia as an existing visual.



                                                Dream boldly with us.
                                                    Let’s start today.
                                                       What’s next…
                                                               is now.
A visual of physical space …

         A project of dmlcentral.com




                                 YOUmedia – click to play



         Do take a quick peek at this video. The visual will help you follow the
         thinking in the next several slides. As we share this idea of a floor plan.
So here’s a rough sketch of the floor plan…
Community as one school..


    The Lab - community center/hub for perpetual freshness - a prototype to launch the
    idea of highschool buildings becoming youmedia-type resource centers. Also hatchery
    for the makings of future city Art Hall and Engineering Hall.
key      Over the next year…


the Lab:

Imagination & Play
                                                                          Create a               Create a
Pre K-5: vast exposure             9-12 – quasi college –                 space to               space to
through games, logic,              Design/prototypes:                     house our              house our
programming, … dabbling            the Met, detox, and your school        best                   best
with mentors other than            design it, , Yaacov Hecht,             resources for          resources for
parents                            Education Cities                       the arts.              engineering.

6-8 focus: ongoing                 12+ - quasi career
exposure, solidifying              Design/prototypes:
mentors, working on small          Cathy Davidson, John Hope Franklin
                                   Humanities Institute at Duke, Yaacov Hecht, The Educational-Social
personal network                   Entrepreneuring Incubator
                                   Radmatter, Katherine Von Jan
Design/prototypes:
i&p , be you web, and              Teachers – google 20% as learners, Teacherpreneurs, Yaacov’s
Patchwork
                                   incubator, & Your pd design it

Currently imagining the Lab could roam around the city in diff spaces creating mesh. Rented to them at low
cost or free of charge. In return, their time in it is spent designing the space for creativity/allure, one that is
alive, a future investment for the owner(s).
Lisa Gansky's The Mesh - sharing spaces, finding unlikely spaces to use/share

    Artspace is coming to Loveland, they renovate buildings in order to create, in essence
                                                           - homeless shelters for artists

    This building - is within the range of the location artspace is looking at to renovate
    [ie: the cathedral ceiling in the building now blocked with a fake lower ceiling, etc could
    be exposed]

         Envisioning this building as a first youmedia-type, community center-type space for
         our town, a prototype of what we think each of the highschool buildings will be
         within the next 3 years (part of the kids 4 yr plan)

         Envisioning the process of changing just this one building. Very mesh-like, ie: could
         be owned by several interested parties in town or by just one.. renting to us in a
         sense for free - knowing that at the end of the year - the Lab - could move on to
         another empty building, owned by the same person(s) or others, and repeat.
         So in essence, kids moving into these different spaces they have already scoped
         out.. doing their work in them.. but as they work.. creating the space so that they
         owner's value increases, the space becomes alive.
         (ie: Lyndsay's post referencing the Really Free Schools in London)
A bit on youmedia -type resource centers and why we think Loveland could model the
means to this disruption happening anywhere.

    Pearson – and/or other book companies.. are no longer trash talked for soaking
    up all ed's money - for the purpose of something we no longer believe in
    (standardized tests, etc), they act out a new purpose
    (which Pearson obviously already realizes.. not sure if others do - as seen in hmh's recent challenge - where if you win you
    can't implement your ideas for 9 months while your in a sense negotiating with hmh as a first partner - don't know - i do
    hope i'm wrong there)


    Macarthur Foundation – and/or other foundations … perhaps Google, local
    people/organizations – have a small scale prototype to test out theory without
    waiting for policy to catch up. Theory is great - but actually doing is where you
    find the failures that bring you authentic perpetual beta and hence - perpetual
    success.
People can't imagine that towns could be filled with youmedia-type centers
when we're experiencing such economic dire. But when you look into
it, that's hooey. We have enough resources for that and more, they are just
currently being thrown into old wine skins.


Right now in ed.. perhaps the biggest compromise to change is thinking we
can tweak ourselves away from standards and all the policy that revolves
around that.

A culture of trust won't come from a gradual backwards release.. at least not
                                                             in our lifetime.

  This is a shift rather than a tweak, meant to awaken indispensable people
                                                                      today.
This is a rough sketch of the buildings in our town, the colored ones part of our vision... over the next year.
What we envision next year:



Fine tuning a means to monitor growth:
     Expository, portfolio, wikipedia edit
     Over 500 videos – tagging/sharing this summer, documentary                             click for Adam’s
     More focus on logging (video as well), writing locally & for dmlcentral                    1st video log
Community involvement:
   Best asset right now – word of mouth trumps money
   Community gatherings – films at feed and grain this summer [I am, Schooling the World]
   Artspace & ACE
     (robotics - dog as open source for programming, Rushkoff – program or be programmed,
     legal street art, JR – maybe of 1-1’s)

Focus:
    1-1 mentors (and beyond)
    Inform the community on ed options – nothing is for everyone
    Log/share/map activity/thinking in the Lab
    Online as open source

Visit: Met – BIF 7 - Gansky, boyd, Pink, Littky, Haque, Hagel, Visit: Patchwork,
TED: Collins June 29?
Space –
    Downtown spaces – June about Artspace – Grace church? – ACE – robotics
    Stapleton Farm

Liability
      School during the day – united way after

Transportation
     Bus routes city and school
     City – zipbike program

Funds:
    Looking into United Way, local support, major companies with like vision, businesses
    offering 10% time to employees to mentor, savings from paperless, less
    policy, etc, donation,

Resources
    What we currently are using: macbooks, flips, furniture from warehouse
    Future: access to warehouse, access to recycleds – community/district donating
    laptops/phones/bikes they no longer use
key   Over the next 3 years…




                   Resource spaces, similar to Patchwork, with meeting times, etc
                   To facilitate space for your school design it, housed in current
                   elementary and middle school buildings




                   Resource spaces, similar to YOUmedia, with meeting spaces, etc
                   To facilitate space for your school design it, housed in current
                   high school buildings




                                           described earlier..
Existing buildings morph into resource centers, meeting spaces, with specialty buildings shared by the community..
                                                                                        over the next 3 years.
remember…




Facilitated per 1-1 mentors and rateyourprofessors.com type matching.
                                 Our vision last year for world school – beyond face to face
          Pre-k through 8th – exposure - design via i&p , be you web, and Patchwork
          9-12 – quasi college – design via the Met, your school design it
          12+ - quasi career - design via John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke




    Over the next 3 years…
Pre-k through 8th – exposure - design via i&p , be you web, and Patchwork
9-12 – quasi college – design via the Met, your school design it
12+ - quasi career - design via John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke
                                                                By our 4th year… 2010-2011 having been year one…
Crazy?...
                                                   Heck no. Not so far off. Not so ridiculous.
                   So many are already doing cool things… let’s just start calling it all school.

 Let’s use the 650 bill for that, not have to wait for the weekend, or after 3 or the summer..
               We can’t even keep up with all the innovations/learnings/etc:
                          Luma and the Independent Project and … and …

    We just need to make sure we don’t pigeon-hole. Which we all want to do once we find
    something cool. [How do you think the curriculum was founded?] We need to focus on:
                                                                 nothing is for everyone.

We’re thinking the glue is:

          Some process for learning how to learn, such as detox.
               So that everyone is left hungry for more, and knowing how to feed that hunger in the future. The
               process of knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do, being usefully ignorant, as
               second nature.


          Some means to facilitate the craziness of differentiating to infinity.
               Declaration of interdependence with 1-1 mentors and beyond. School/prof/project per choice
               with a type of rateyourprof local match ups.
click to see floorplan in video form..
voice over slides - first glimpse at be you commons
Kids have connections down. Many of us just don’t see it as legit. Many of them don’t
see it as legit. Connections are legit. How kids connect and collaborate is huge to social
change.

Adults still hold the keys to dreaming. Whether it’s a pause, a look, a refocus,.. we
communicate an assumed agenda.

Perhaps, what we need to do is give kids more space, legit space, to do their thing. Their
thing is pretty amazing, if it’s their thing. We can’t give them space, tell them we want
them to do their thing, and then tell them how that should look. We won’t be blown
away by their brilliance if we continue to manage it.


If we would all give ourselves permission to notice more, we wouldn’t be able to not do
more. We’re doing less because we’re hung up on what’s an allowable dream.
We need to focus on finding/creating/supporting free spaces for our YOUth.
This could be a joint venture, like no other. This is a huge multi-player game.
Too important to not take all of us.

                                          *YOUth – you to whatever degree you decide.
via The Lab in Loveland, CO
                                  because of the space, permission and trust
                                                              given to us by
                                                    Thompson School District

SPACE
to experiment on the edge.
Connected adjacency
                with the district.


docboard for this slideshare
ideas from year
Teachers in the                              Parent on google
                                        Parents
It’s a family     classroom catching                        Amazing what this
                                        making
affair. When      the allure.                               open environment has
                                        connections,
matters to        The goal of the lab                       produced. A 10 year
                                        strewing
them, it          is to see what                            old that I need a
                                        more
matters to me.    happens in a free                         dictionary to talk to.
                                        curiosity, as
                  space in order to                         I’m currently
                                        they follow
                  encourage others                          borrowing his 2 inch
                                        their kids’
                  (teachers/students/                       thick html code
                                        fancy.
                  admin) to bring                           book, he read 2 years
                  more of that                              ago.
                  freedom into their                        A 6 year old that just
Sharing talents   already existent                          the other day had 140
because we’re     spaces. Tom is one                        views on her latest
connected.        in particular, fully                      dog story.
                  embracing Erica      Suggestion for Lab   1-1 provides every kid
                  McWilliams: be                            with this.
                  usefully ignorant.                        Per danah boyd, the
                                                            best filter is a human
It’s more
                  about a
                  mindset
                  than
                  anything…

High recommends for this
slideshare’s ideas:

Lisa Gansky, The Mesh
(how to find resources in unlikely places)

Yaacov Hecht, Democratic Education
(stories of success/failure that are us, as we offer space for kids to find their gift/own their learning, education cities, embrace perpetual unknowing)


Dennis Littky’s, The Big Picture, Ed is Everyone’s Business
(modeling the 1-1 mentor, the transcript/expository/portfolio at end of yr, city as floorplan)

Clark Aldrich’s, Unschooling Rules,
(rethinking school means not thinking school)


So many others.. Reality is Broken, The Element, DIY U, Rework, Linchpin, Talent Code, Mindset, Cognitive Surplus, Secrets of a Buccaneer Scholar,
The Power of Pull, A New Culture of Learning, The Design of Business, The War of Art, Do the Work, What Technology Wants, Tribes, Blogs Wikis
Podcasts, The New Brain, The Human Project, The Blue Sweater, Drive, Greater Than Yourself, Wounded by School, Teaching Unmasked, ….
previously slides are one story deck of the narrative deck:




  The entire narrative deck can be accessed here..
  Or you can go to the next slide to access another story deck…
as story
4-39: mindset        - the skinny
      40-79: redefining success: school as a business … community as a school
                 43-49: the dandelion effect
                 50-53: is respect for every voice a part of your soul
                 54-63: we don’t need more resources, we just need to be more resourceful
                            : on health & wealth
                 64-72: Joi Ito as an exemplar – nothing is for everyone
                 73-79: declaration of interdependence - as glue
        80-89: findings in failings
                  : history (deliberately not teaching, homeless analogy)
                  : detox (process/what, unpacking/why, doing/how)
           90-95: vision/floorplan
           96-97: connected adjacency         just out:
   98: suggested book reads                   awakening indispensable people via videos
   99: faq                                    warning – poor quality – ie slidedeck with voice
100-111: mindset

                   Suggestion per parents, if you were only going to look at 2 things:
                                                                slide 26 and detox.

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city as floorplan

  • 2. What wakes kids up? What would wake the community up?
  • 3. Most people aren’t lazy. Yet by all appearances one might assume so. Most people are craving work that matters. Work they know they can’t do by themselves.
  • 4. YOUth ideas on how to go about doing what matters. Notice the comments on how hard this is, how they need help. Kids are craving work that matters. click to play
  • 5. Noah sharing that for him, work that matters means he’s working with people. I get real lazy when it comes to independent work. This isn’t a classroom passion. I need to connect to someone who knows it a lot better than I do. I don’t know if I could do it by myself.
  • 6. Work too hard to do by yourself?
  • 7. Gus on something bigger than, something beyond. Hard work. It’s more than an opportunity, it’s a responsibility. The exhaustion from overextending yourself creatively is some of the best exhaustion you will ever feel. An organization that provides a platform for people to push into their fear will produce both better work and a better workforce. - Seth Godin, Underextended
  • 8. Work that is bigger than you, bigger than us?
  • 9. What a boost to global net happiness it would be if we could positively activate the minds and bodies of hundreds of millions of people by offering them better hard work. -Jane McGonigal, Reality is Broken
  • 10. Community as a school: What if school’s setting were life, and kids were working on health, budget, environmental, etc, … problems? school as life From Edutopia: For college ready use PBL ..three factors that support the success of a young person: (1) A solid relationship with an adult mentor, such as a parent, priest, teacher, or coach; (2) A sense of mastery that develops (3) An internal sense of meaning and purpose Perhaps better to say: For life ready use 1-1, PBL as we know it, …on steroids. Interdependency and beyond
  • 11. click to play click to play click to play click to play What if we all had a hunger to learn? What if that was our only measure, are you hungry, do you know how to feed your hunger? That could change a room. click to play
  • 12. Community as a school: In the US, when you say real life people tend to define it as: outside of school. - Michael Wesch, K-State, What if school involved everyone, the entire town? Wouldn’t we all be better off? Health - people being known by people Budget – the more we know each other, the more we share Environmental – the more we share, the less we need Sir Ken writes in The Element of Grange Primary of Long Eaton, England, creating Grangeton, with its own mayor, council, newspaper, etc and Dennis Littky,’s The Met - where the community is the school’s floor plan.
  • 13. One of our biggest inspirations for the city as floorplan came from Lisa Gansky’s The Mesh. She encouraged us to look in unlikely spaces, that weren’t being used, to seek ways to share them for multi-use, so that we’re not needing more resources, as we simply become more resourceful. directory
  • 14. ie: average use-time of a power drill? 12 min so why do we all need one? no? Lisa Gansky, the future … is sharing. .
  • 15. Our next big inspiration started with this conversation…. Our first week in the Lab, August 2010, the kids were skyping with James Bach. They were already deep into the issue of homelessness and wanted to know his insight on how to solve it. His answer set the stage for the rest of the year. James ‘ reply was that you can’t solve it by thinking you can manage people. Sustainable change begs choice.
  • 16. He said the best you can do is provide the resources they would need to help themselves, let them know you care, and then rather than try to manage them, be available to them, along side them. While listening to the convo – Sugata Mitra kept ringing in my ears. His success – he provided the resources and left for 3 months at a time. James suggested the city with resource buildings rather than schools…. would move a community toward a healthier means to learning/living. *Our brilliant friend Adam Burk has helped clarify verbiage with his great insight in this matter. Community as school could change the systems that are persistently producing conditions for poverty to thrive. Which we thought sounded great. And started to imagine how that could play out. How we could call that school..
  • 17. The conversation gyrated back and forth, as did almost every other conversation throughout the year, between a specific situation (this time homelessness) and redefining school. After noticing the similarities of a literal homeless person and a figurative homeless student in a classroom, they jumped to how we could then help (provide resources, get out of the way, be available) to make the time we spend together during the day facilitate more self-directed, rich, passion led learning, without chaos taking over, through an interdependent status. play Aimee explaining NY’s interdependent status for teens
  • 18. The crazy notion that each kid could essentially have their own self-made plan, allowed us to envision the entire community as one school. Visions from the previous year of the library being the hub of the school …. … morphed into the idea of the highschool buildings becoming the hubs, or the resource centers, for the entire town. The town as one big school. Like a uni campus. Resources, lectures halls, science labs, art hall, click to hear original Lab description engineering hall, everything/everyone is available – per choice.
  • 19. And our third big inspiration came from Dennis Littky.. He is doing something very similar at the Met in Providence RI. He has been doing something very similar. For the last 11 years. dang.
  • 20. I recently just met with Isaac Graves, of the Patchwork School in Louiseville, CO. Patchwork is doing incredible things with younger kids.. As you’ll see, Patchwork is one of our prototypes in the floor plan. When I told Isaac about the kids’ ideas, he shared with me the story of Yaacov Hecht, and his Education Cities. And I thought – whoa. My thinking went immediately to I Am Anne’s museum of herself – to make your own go to http://www.intel.com/museumofme/r/index.htm And George Siemens saying we need the glue to affect the research of all of these pockets of innovation. The glue is us, no? We just need to talk more, connect the dots.
  • 21. And our forth big inspiration came from Kevin. He took us on a walk through Old Towne, teaching us how to find those unlikely spaces Lisa Gansky was talking about. He taught us how to notice more and how to change a room. how can you change a room..
  • 22. We kept thinking … about school as a business…. community as a school.. And then we starting walking through our town - imagining … how could this building come alive, how could that one be shared?
  • 23. Throughout the year, we dreamed of such spaces, ones that would capture the fluidity of the web: 24/7, ubiquitous, something for everyone, malleable, continually morphing to suit the needs of whoever is in it. Our first glimpse of this morphism was Palomar 5 (in 3 weeks). Their white walled castle with the freedom to build and change and create, tickled our fancy. As did the passion driven adventures that resulted from their 6 month stay. Kosta Grammatis and @ahumanright.org in particular. Now at the end of they year, we’re certain morph and malleable are key adjectives. Austin on private space Lucas sketching space Clay on balance in space
  • 24. Thinking on space (physical, emotional, mental) .. whiteboard walls deep practice dreaming boldly of spaces that via Daniel Coyle already exist –Lisa Gansky sound proof separate detox room visualizing detox rooms, space/tools to skype We walked Old Towne with Kevin. We walked 4th Street. We talked about Lisa Gansky’s Mesh mentality, how we could do more with less. How we could create new purpose for old spaces.
  • 25. Lyndsay’s post as confirmation. One answer to the question about the purposes and values of education is that it should enable young people to learn to participate in public spaces in which they work with other students and teachers to negotiate and collectively determine the direction of their own institution and learning. The act of appropriating unused buildings to provide public spaces for free education is a provocation to think about what a "really free" education could be. Lyndsay Grant on Hacking Higher Education - Really Free School [if you don’t read the post.. they are doing this in London – offering free school in vacant spaces]
  • 26. Doing what has been considered standard doesn’t equate with success anymore. We need to be freeing kids up to be themselves. Giving them space to fail. Showing them we trust learning. That it is that fascinating and alluring. Lucas with a CSU student talking about space and permission to be.
  • 27. Then we heard about getting hired as a director of the MIT Media Lab. His story is inspiring, to say the least, and his vision turned up the volume.
  • 28. Could we make this a place that would accept me, and more importantly, be able to keep people like me? On the West Coast, you’ve got Peter Thiel, paying people to drop out of college. And I thought: let’s flip this around. Aren’t there a bunch of those people who dropped out who should be here at the Media Lab and how can click here for entire interview we figure that out? That’s one of my missions. Lab goal: building/supporting spaces for all options (all people) within public ed. [homeschoolers/unschoolers, dropouts, rebels, 4.0’s, homeless -any that are disengaged.] When we exclude, we miss incredible adjacent possibilities. Nothing is for everyone. Let’s use that for good.
  • 29. Similarities in with what Joi writes and what we’re doing/thinking in the Lab: If we could figure out a way to be long term and agile and figure out an investment structure for that, that is something Media Lab would be very good at: something where we could have a long trajectory, yet create a short term impact. [Connected Adjacency – per Saul – our original doc] For me international is not about building a humongous center in some place, it’s how can I make everyone in the Media Lab be able to test their product in Kenya, and make that as easy as walking across the street to the Harvard Medical Center. [The vision is not a Lab. The vision is a live community of choice. People in need of detox or freed space to explore crazy ideas, can filter through the Lab. But the center is the community.] click here for entire interview
  • 30. Similarities in with what Joi writes and what we’re doing/thinking in the Lab: Everyone’s struggling with how you put the money together in a way that creates maximum impact. [The Mesh – the future of business is sharing. We don’t need more resources, we just need to be more resourceful.] What I’d like to do is bring people with me, and bring people back. [Virtual convo that feels like you just met for coffee – Junto ?] Once you start going to places you see that face-to-face is really important.…..showing up everywhere. [Town as campus, kids out in community doing real work, face to face.] It’s all about diversity -- geographic, sector, and field diversity. [Fractal thinking, what similarities/diff do we have when we zoom out. Ellen Langer – prejudice decreases when discrimination increases – what is normal?] click here for entire interview
  • 31. Lucas wrote a brilliant paper. Instead of embracing the diversity of the human mind we have stigmatized the very differences that are so characteristic of humans. The DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) declared war on the introverts, and the educationally challenged among others and has attempted to define what a normal human should be, an extroverted individual who works well with people, progresses well in conventional schooling, and will succeed in a conventional job. Lucas, student, Stigmatizing the Human Mind looking to measure creativity.
  • 32. Now we figure we know to much (and too little) to fold. Moving forward in perpetual beta towards…
  • 33. So what exactly are we facilitating? What matters most – to an individual/community 20 characteristics of and from unschoolers And how do we facilitate that? Redefining NCLB – to create an ideal family situation for each student. Declaration of Interdependence (1-1), and beyond ridiculous match up? Is this 1-1 idea a Dennis Littky ran into that question when they started The Met , in Providence, RI. Finding that Providence had over 500000 adult works and 40000 hs students helped ease the doubt.
  • 34. beyond 1-to-1 more ridiculous match up Imagine who’s together in a room being per choice. [Rheingold/Shareski interview] Uni’s have used ratemyprofessors for years, because many professors are hired to do research, not to teach. So some sought protection from paying for a class with a professor who is not really interested in teaching. Imagine if we used this type of match up for good. This would give teachers/professors insight on what’s working, what kids are a good match for them. This would give kids insight into what teachers/styles would be best for them. And these decisions would be being made with their mentor(s) – not just a whim. From our research, for every kid that likes/dislikes a teacher or a style, there is typically a match for the opposite opinion. And beyond. Let’s bring people together per choice.
  • 35. What if most of what we do on a daily basis, is actually getting in the way? What if we took more time to know someone? What if the best medicine is to be known by someone? Ellen Langer, along with others I’m sure, has done extensive research on mindfulness, and how it plays out in every area of our lives. The simple act of noticing could change the room, the world, … even you. notice
  • 36. A new paradigm shift. The future of business is sharing. The Mesh, Lisa Gansky Getting to the heart of the matter begs a … to deck for culture of trust
  • 37. YOUth ideas on healthy spaces.. click to play more on this story notice
  • 38. The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. - Brian Sutton-Smith, leading Psychologist of Play notice
  • 39. Why community? Why connected adjacency?
  • 40. There are more resources in an institutional setting.. people and things. Let’s focus on that. What if we provide resources.. and let people design their own school?
  • 41. So how do they learn?.. what do they need? click to play Common statements in the Lab, I can’t stop learning, I want to learn everything.
  • 42. When teenage girls can help organize events that unnerve national governments, without needing professional organization or organizers to get the ball rolling, we are in new territory. As Mimi Ito describes the protesters, Their participation in the protests was grounded less in the concrete conditions of their everyday lives, and more in their solidarity with a shared media fandom… Although so much of what kids are doing online may look trivial and frivolous, what they are doing is building the capacity to connect, to communicate, and ultimately, to mobilize. .. What’s distinctive about this historical moment and today’s rising generation is not only a distinct form of media expression, but how this expression is tied to social action. - via Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus
  • 43. Amazing things coming out of what seems to be trivial… frivolous. parent voice Lab updates: 13 year old teaching game design, 10 year old programming this your school design it, kids getting reg credit - Watching Daniel some teachers saying they did more than expected, finding ways to secure a teen shelter, public awareness to Coyle, learning trafficking, robotic worlds, video editing, music comp.. etc about deep pratice. Nothing new.. La de da. People are amazing if given space to be. Many of you are doing remarkable things. Let’s save some money/time/stress/spirit /etc and just call that school. Note: We’ve learned just as much/more from those who didn’t experience expected outcomes in the Lab. We know what doesn’t work and why. That helps us discriminate what does work. It added stress to them though –Noble Prize awaits. Jane McGonigal writes, in Reality is Broken, of a future Noble prize where unlikely people are rewarded for hard work, work that matters.
  • 44. What our failures produced this year 2010-2011: 1) The Lab vision (Lab site – request from parents, updates/etc ) 2) CONNECTed – district vision 3) Options – empowering choice 4) a bold dream – history & floorplan We gained a clearer vision: nothing is for everyone. choice empowers. your school/life design it. facilitation per 1-1 mentors. alongside, and beyond be you. share back: ie wikipedia, expositories, portfolio (behance), video log We hope to gain further progress with these: tag Youtube (& video response) for video logging work on Junto-ish space to talk Jim and Sasha - working on virtual reality in Drupal. ie: collegeincolorado - but instead of reading - they would become ie: a chiropractor, scientist, etc. We got asked to post 10 times over the next year on dmlcentral (Mimi Ito, danah boyd, Ethan Zuckerman, Howard Rheingold, Cathy Davidson, Jeff Brazil, …) They have plans for 30 more youmedia ‘s at least 1 more quest2 learn 2 page paper from 2008 (50 mill project) digital youth project
  • 45. TSD Nothing is for everyone. Let’s facilitate that. CONNECTed Dennis Littky, the city is our floorplan.
  • 46. On waking up the community..
  • 47. We talked to community members, as potential mentors. Would they be willing? Would they be interested? We talked to the Mayor about what we could do. He gave us hard work. Work he can’t do alone. (Barry video) We talked to city people, about planning together, legalizing street art, occupying space, sharing stories, bringing people together. Aimee & Noah on teen Aimee sharing their shelter & homelessness. current thinking for See Michelle’s human a teen shelter. trafficking event -slide 100. Working on this dream: tunnel jam (Felicia and/or Marcie video) And this one to share stories : street art
  • 48. Dear Admin, Working on easier ways to credential work outside the course book. Realizing your hands are tied on many things.. We (the Lab) can work both in and out of the system. Gus w/our superintendent Austin & Jenny Luca, speaking at Edubloggercon Let us do/support/facilitate things you can’t. Check out wikicities literacy standards via Yaacov. who mandates this? math state standards to courses Sam w/board member and this?
  • 49. The beauty of becoming yourself, making yourself, noticing more and being more mindful, is that it empowers you to let go of yourself. You start working for that something bigger than… … that something beyond. You start needing others. You start knowing others. You find yourself dreaming. Dreaming boldly. So now, in sketching such spaces of collaboration, we’re using YOUmedia as an existing visual. Dream boldly with us. Let’s start today. What’s next… is now.
  • 50. A visual of physical space … A project of dmlcentral.com YOUmedia – click to play Do take a quick peek at this video. The visual will help you follow the thinking in the next several slides. As we share this idea of a floor plan.
  • 51. So here’s a rough sketch of the floor plan…
  • 52. Community as one school.. The Lab - community center/hub for perpetual freshness - a prototype to launch the idea of highschool buildings becoming youmedia-type resource centers. Also hatchery for the makings of future city Art Hall and Engineering Hall.
  • 53. key Over the next year… the Lab: Imagination & Play Create a Create a Pre K-5: vast exposure 9-12 – quasi college – space to space to through games, logic, Design/prototypes: house our house our programming, … dabbling the Met, detox, and your school best best with mentors other than design it, , Yaacov Hecht, resources for resources for parents Education Cities the arts. engineering. 6-8 focus: ongoing 12+ - quasi career exposure, solidifying Design/prototypes: mentors, working on small Cathy Davidson, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke, Yaacov Hecht, The Educational-Social personal network Entrepreneuring Incubator Radmatter, Katherine Von Jan Design/prototypes: i&p , be you web, and Teachers – google 20% as learners, Teacherpreneurs, Yaacov’s Patchwork incubator, & Your pd design it Currently imagining the Lab could roam around the city in diff spaces creating mesh. Rented to them at low cost or free of charge. In return, their time in it is spent designing the space for creativity/allure, one that is alive, a future investment for the owner(s).
  • 54. Lisa Gansky's The Mesh - sharing spaces, finding unlikely spaces to use/share Artspace is coming to Loveland, they renovate buildings in order to create, in essence - homeless shelters for artists This building - is within the range of the location artspace is looking at to renovate [ie: the cathedral ceiling in the building now blocked with a fake lower ceiling, etc could be exposed] Envisioning this building as a first youmedia-type, community center-type space for our town, a prototype of what we think each of the highschool buildings will be within the next 3 years (part of the kids 4 yr plan) Envisioning the process of changing just this one building. Very mesh-like, ie: could be owned by several interested parties in town or by just one.. renting to us in a sense for free - knowing that at the end of the year - the Lab - could move on to another empty building, owned by the same person(s) or others, and repeat. So in essence, kids moving into these different spaces they have already scoped out.. doing their work in them.. but as they work.. creating the space so that they owner's value increases, the space becomes alive. (ie: Lyndsay's post referencing the Really Free Schools in London)
  • 55. A bit on youmedia -type resource centers and why we think Loveland could model the means to this disruption happening anywhere. Pearson – and/or other book companies.. are no longer trash talked for soaking up all ed's money - for the purpose of something we no longer believe in (standardized tests, etc), they act out a new purpose (which Pearson obviously already realizes.. not sure if others do - as seen in hmh's recent challenge - where if you win you can't implement your ideas for 9 months while your in a sense negotiating with hmh as a first partner - don't know - i do hope i'm wrong there) Macarthur Foundation – and/or other foundations … perhaps Google, local people/organizations – have a small scale prototype to test out theory without waiting for policy to catch up. Theory is great - but actually doing is where you find the failures that bring you authentic perpetual beta and hence - perpetual success.
  • 56. People can't imagine that towns could be filled with youmedia-type centers when we're experiencing such economic dire. But when you look into it, that's hooey. We have enough resources for that and more, they are just currently being thrown into old wine skins. Right now in ed.. perhaps the biggest compromise to change is thinking we can tweak ourselves away from standards and all the policy that revolves around that. A culture of trust won't come from a gradual backwards release.. at least not in our lifetime. This is a shift rather than a tweak, meant to awaken indispensable people today.
  • 57. This is a rough sketch of the buildings in our town, the colored ones part of our vision... over the next year.
  • 58. What we envision next year: Fine tuning a means to monitor growth: Expository, portfolio, wikipedia edit Over 500 videos – tagging/sharing this summer, documentary click for Adam’s More focus on logging (video as well), writing locally & for dmlcentral 1st video log Community involvement: Best asset right now – word of mouth trumps money Community gatherings – films at feed and grain this summer [I am, Schooling the World] Artspace & ACE (robotics - dog as open source for programming, Rushkoff – program or be programmed, legal street art, JR – maybe of 1-1’s) Focus: 1-1 mentors (and beyond) Inform the community on ed options – nothing is for everyone Log/share/map activity/thinking in the Lab Online as open source Visit: Met – BIF 7 - Gansky, boyd, Pink, Littky, Haque, Hagel, Visit: Patchwork, TED: Collins June 29?
  • 59. Space – Downtown spaces – June about Artspace – Grace church? – ACE – robotics Stapleton Farm Liability School during the day – united way after Transportation Bus routes city and school City – zipbike program Funds: Looking into United Way, local support, major companies with like vision, businesses offering 10% time to employees to mentor, savings from paperless, less policy, etc, donation, Resources What we currently are using: macbooks, flips, furniture from warehouse Future: access to warehouse, access to recycleds – community/district donating laptops/phones/bikes they no longer use
  • 60. key Over the next 3 years… Resource spaces, similar to Patchwork, with meeting times, etc To facilitate space for your school design it, housed in current elementary and middle school buildings Resource spaces, similar to YOUmedia, with meeting spaces, etc To facilitate space for your school design it, housed in current high school buildings described earlier..
  • 61. Existing buildings morph into resource centers, meeting spaces, with specialty buildings shared by the community.. over the next 3 years.
  • 62. remember… Facilitated per 1-1 mentors and rateyourprofessors.com type matching. Our vision last year for world school – beyond face to face Pre-k through 8th – exposure - design via i&p , be you web, and Patchwork 9-12 – quasi college – design via the Met, your school design it 12+ - quasi career - design via John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke Over the next 3 years…
  • 63. Pre-k through 8th – exposure - design via i&p , be you web, and Patchwork 9-12 – quasi college – design via the Met, your school design it 12+ - quasi career - design via John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke By our 4th year… 2010-2011 having been year one…
  • 64. Crazy?... Heck no. Not so far off. Not so ridiculous. So many are already doing cool things… let’s just start calling it all school. Let’s use the 650 bill for that, not have to wait for the weekend, or after 3 or the summer.. We can’t even keep up with all the innovations/learnings/etc: Luma and the Independent Project and … and … We just need to make sure we don’t pigeon-hole. Which we all want to do once we find something cool. [How do you think the curriculum was founded?] We need to focus on: nothing is for everyone. We’re thinking the glue is: Some process for learning how to learn, such as detox. So that everyone is left hungry for more, and knowing how to feed that hunger in the future. The process of knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do, being usefully ignorant, as second nature. Some means to facilitate the craziness of differentiating to infinity. Declaration of interdependence with 1-1 mentors and beyond. School/prof/project per choice with a type of rateyourprof local match ups.
  • 65. click to see floorplan in video form.. voice over slides - first glimpse at be you commons
  • 66. Kids have connections down. Many of us just don’t see it as legit. Many of them don’t see it as legit. Connections are legit. How kids connect and collaborate is huge to social change. Adults still hold the keys to dreaming. Whether it’s a pause, a look, a refocus,.. we communicate an assumed agenda. Perhaps, what we need to do is give kids more space, legit space, to do their thing. Their thing is pretty amazing, if it’s their thing. We can’t give them space, tell them we want them to do their thing, and then tell them how that should look. We won’t be blown away by their brilliance if we continue to manage it. If we would all give ourselves permission to notice more, we wouldn’t be able to not do more. We’re doing less because we’re hung up on what’s an allowable dream.
  • 67. We need to focus on finding/creating/supporting free spaces for our YOUth. This could be a joint venture, like no other. This is a huge multi-player game. Too important to not take all of us. *YOUth – you to whatever degree you decide.
  • 68. via The Lab in Loveland, CO because of the space, permission and trust given to us by Thompson School District SPACE to experiment on the edge. Connected adjacency with the district. docboard for this slideshare ideas from year
  • 69. Teachers in the Parent on google Parents It’s a family classroom catching Amazing what this making affair. When the allure. open environment has connections, matters to The goal of the lab produced. A 10 year strewing them, it is to see what old that I need a more matters to me. happens in a free dictionary to talk to. curiosity, as space in order to I’m currently they follow encourage others borrowing his 2 inch their kids’ (teachers/students/ thick html code fancy. admin) to bring book, he read 2 years more of that ago. freedom into their A 6 year old that just Sharing talents already existent the other day had 140 because we’re spaces. Tom is one views on her latest connected. in particular, fully dog story. embracing Erica Suggestion for Lab 1-1 provides every kid McWilliams: be with this. usefully ignorant. Per danah boyd, the best filter is a human
  • 70. It’s more about a mindset than anything… High recommends for this slideshare’s ideas: Lisa Gansky, The Mesh (how to find resources in unlikely places) Yaacov Hecht, Democratic Education (stories of success/failure that are us, as we offer space for kids to find their gift/own their learning, education cities, embrace perpetual unknowing) Dennis Littky’s, The Big Picture, Ed is Everyone’s Business (modeling the 1-1 mentor, the transcript/expository/portfolio at end of yr, city as floorplan) Clark Aldrich’s, Unschooling Rules, (rethinking school means not thinking school) So many others.. Reality is Broken, The Element, DIY U, Rework, Linchpin, Talent Code, Mindset, Cognitive Surplus, Secrets of a Buccaneer Scholar, The Power of Pull, A New Culture of Learning, The Design of Business, The War of Art, Do the Work, What Technology Wants, Tribes, Blogs Wikis Podcasts, The New Brain, The Human Project, The Blue Sweater, Drive, Greater Than Yourself, Wounded by School, Teaching Unmasked, ….
  • 71. previously slides are one story deck of the narrative deck: The entire narrative deck can be accessed here.. Or you can go to the next slide to access another story deck…
  • 72. as story 4-39: mindset - the skinny 40-79: redefining success: school as a business … community as a school 43-49: the dandelion effect 50-53: is respect for every voice a part of your soul 54-63: we don’t need more resources, we just need to be more resourceful : on health & wealth 64-72: Joi Ito as an exemplar – nothing is for everyone 73-79: declaration of interdependence - as glue 80-89: findings in failings : history (deliberately not teaching, homeless analogy) : detox (process/what, unpacking/why, doing/how) 90-95: vision/floorplan 96-97: connected adjacency just out: 98: suggested book reads awakening indispensable people via videos 99: faq warning – poor quality – ie slidedeck with voice 100-111: mindset Suggestion per parents, if you were only going to look at 2 things: slide 26 and detox.