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Paracraft
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Self-Directed Education
CONTENTS
Intro
What is Paracraft
How we teach? Part 1: facts
 Model
 Life
How we teach? Part 2: in depth
Standard
Power of Self-Directed EduPower of Self-Directed Edu
Sudbury for the mass
Uniqueness of Paracraft Edu
Theoretical Framework
Orgs and Links
Intro
/01
Knowledge Models
Paracraft
Significant Experiences
Life
ADD YOUR TEXT
Learning
Knowledge
It is not just about learning of the
knowledge, but more importantly it is
about learning how to learn, and get rich
experiences with what life is about.
Life
Life Center, Space
Life
1.0 Paracraft Education
What is Paracraft
/02
Feelings and Emotions
https://v.qq.com/x/page/q07723pf1hx.html
Thoughts and Ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZX2wUqTXDI
https://v.qq.com/x/page/g060196w3av.html
Uniqueness and Diversity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcO1M4KA5oY
https://v.qq.com/x/page/w0893bldqh0.html
Play and Fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Qr2hBEJL0
https://v.qq.com/x/page/q0831b4dbfk.html
Play and Fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xZmty75LdY
Play and Fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlbV98guLv4
https://v.qq.com/x/page/e083023h5c5.html
Play and Fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGIxs4absUs
Equality
Feelings and Emotions
Thoughts and Ideas
Uniqueness and Diversity
Play and Fun
• Express yourself
• Touch others
• Create
Craftsmanship
• 3D
• Movie making
• Programming
Skills
02 Paracraft: Life
Craftsmanship
https://v.qq.com/x/page/l0167s9yv4u.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suNY6hPINw8
Skills
https://api.keepwork.com/storage/v0/siteFiles/9424/raw#功能演示视频.mp4
Life
Wolds of
3D
• Power to build life/world with blocks
Interest– kids love it!
Videos
https://api.keepwork.com/storage/v0/siteFiles/9431/raw#IMG_3115.MOV
https://api.keepwork.com/storage/v0/siteFiles/9437/raw#IMG_3131.MOV
https://api.keepwork.com/storage/v0/siteFiles/9433/raw#IMG_3133.MOV
Express Life
Create Life
Self-Learning
navigate in a
complex life system
Paracraft
Self-Directed
Edu
Life
ADD YOUR TEXT
Learning
Knowledge
By Life Center, we feel and sense the
space of life, we sense Significant
Experiences and build up Knowledge
Models . By Life Center, agile interaction
and layer by layer approach are possible.
It is all about space.
Life
Life Center, Space
Life
1.1 Paracraft Education: Life
Knowledge Models
Paracraft
Significant Experiences
Life
ADD YOUR TEXT
Learning
Knowledge
It is not just about learning of the
knowledge, but more importantly it is
about learning how to learn, and get rich
experiences with what life is about.
Life
Life Center, Space
Life
1.0 Paracraft Education
Knowledge in Paracraft
 3D animation
 Programming
Knowledge in Paracraft
How we teach?
Part 1: Facts
/03
How to teach?
• We don’t teach
• How Children learn
• Let children learn by themselves
Express Life
Create Life
Self-Learning
navigate in a
complex life system
Paracraft
Self-Directed
Edu
Life
ADD YOUR TEXT
Learning
Knowledge
By Life Center, we feel and sense the
space of life, we sense Significant
Experiences and build up Knowledge
Models . By Life Center, agile interaction
and layer by layer approach are possible.
It is all about space.
Life
Life Center, Space
Life
1.1 Paracraft Education: Life
Paracraft for SDE
• Self-Directed Learning
• By models
• Paracraft Learning Center: Creative Space
– Make them learn by themselves, build a better
playground
– Observe and teach them how to learn
How to teach? Part 1
Paracraft Learning Center: Creative Space
• Self-Directed Education
• Sudbury, Summerhill, Learning Centers
https://keepwork.com/official/paracraft/selflearning
Leaning Documents
https://keepwork.com/official/docs/index
Turtorial Videos
Videos marked with knowledge on
timeline
Small Project List
https://keepwork.com/official/docs/teach/lessons/small_proj_list
• Open a project by id
• Switch to edit mode, open up code block and
movie block to see
• Projects sharing platform
• Paracraft and NPL are Open Source
Transparency of Paracraft
Student Learning Profiles
Learning Consulting Records
• Mentors how to conduct a learning session
– Models: you can only teach knowledge that you have
1. Don’t give direct answers. Know the models, know
resources, point the direction
2. Ask other students
3. Demonstrate how to explore and learn
4. Improve the resources
– Significant Experiences: you can only teach what have
touched you before
• We record students and mentors’ Significant Experiences,
and share with each parent respectively
Student Learning Sessions
Learning Session Recorded:
What students have learned
Learning Session Recorded:
What the teacher has learned
• What you plan to do today
– Parents can help write
Before the session: learning plans
• Students can write by themselves
• 21st century skills? Build your own knowledge
• Digitalize: Knowledge Engine
After the session:
What you have learned today
• No lessons. We have more types of lessons.
Lessons
https://keepwork.com/official/docs/teach/lessons/paracraft_centers
Results
Static Electricity in Life
https://api.keepwork.com/storage/v0/siteFiles/9535/raw#生活中的静电.mp4
The Dark Side of the Moon
• https://v.qq.com/x/page/v090720dwvn.html
Results
How we teach?
Part 2: Analysis
Model
Life
/04
Models
Creative Space
Life
Knowledge Models
Paracraft
Significant Experiences
Life
ADD YOUR TEXT
Learning
Knowledge
Paracraft itself is about building 3d
models and the programming in
Paracraft is also about building models.
Since the essential thing for Paracraft
Edu is to learn how to learn, building
knowledge models is the essential
process for us.
Life
Life Center, Space
Life
1.2 Paracraft Education: Model
3D Models Programming
1. Knowledge is model
2. Paracraft builds models
Model
• Built on sense: Significant Experiences
• Identity
• Imagination
Knowledge Model
Significant Experiences
1. Knowledge is model
– Knowledge Models in Paracraft
– Learning: from Significant Experiences to abstract
models
2. Paracraft builds models: models to models,
concrete to abstract
Model
• Knowledge is Personal
• Knowledge is Understanding
• Knowledge is the Whole
• Knowledge is Personal Understanding of the
Whole
• Knowledge is abstract models on neocortex,
and is built from Significant Experiences
Knowledge is Model
• Learning is not linear
• Constantly asking what models you are trying to
build, what SEs you don’t have
• The life centers to interact with, go agile
• Layer by layer
• Quick grasping of knowledge
• Melting together of knowledge, otherwise too
many things to remember
• Children and adults: from existing models
Learning by Models?
SEs and Models
Play
Accumulate SEs
Do projects
Accumulate SEs
Everyday life
Accumulate SEs from
everyday activities
Create your own
Create your own
models from SEs
Form whole
Form understanding of
the whole
Significant Experiences
Models
Apply
Apply knowledge is
applying models
Recognize
Recognize knowledge from
problems or students
Guide
Guide students according
to models and SEs
Problem Solving
Apply models
Feedback
Feedback on models,
new SEs
• Best teachers only give big models and
Significant Experiences
– Share Significant Experiences
– Where to gain Significant Experiences
• Resources
• Projects
• Stay with good teachers, recognizing their
models and Significant Experiences
Teaching by models
• Mentors how to conduct a learning session
– Models: you can only teach knowledge that you have
1. Don’t give direct answers. Know the models, know
resources, point the direction
2. Ask other students
3. Demonstrate how to explore and learn
4. Improve the resources
– Significant Experiences: you can only teach what have
touched you before
• We record students and mentors’ Significant Experiences,
and share with each parent respectively
Teaching by models
Student Learning Sessions
• Students and Mentors building their own
knowledge together
Equality
Model
Knowledge
Rich models
Knowledge are widely connected
Students can check their own models with
Students can contribute
Students
Learn by models, go agile
Evaluate by models and works
TeacherTeach by models
Recruit and evaluate by models and works
Teacher training by models
Certifying by models
Parents
Parents can understand and relate
Parents can participate in
Parents are learning as well
Better parents relations
03 Education by Model
Mentor Platform
pick
students
pick
mentor
1. Knowledge is model
– Knowledge Models in Paracraft
– Learning: from Significant Experiences to abstract
models
2. Paracraft builds models: models to models,
concrete to abstract
Model
• Scenes
• Models
3D Models
• Programmers are craftsman!
• They model!
• Memory/Images + Programming =
Programming
Programming Models
• Learning is to build models on neocortex
• From Significant Experiences to Models
• With models, you can learn in the agile way,
with life
Learning Models
• Model is building space
Model and Space
• Paracraft is to create/express life
• Learning/education is about life
– Learning is to navigate in a complex life system
– SDE is about life
• Life is space: life centers
Life
What is Life?
• Beyond Biology
– Boundary
– Exchange with outside
– Response
– Adapt
– Metabolic
– Reproduce
– Basic Unit
– Layer
– Gathering
– Emerging
What is Life?
Express Life
Create Life
Self-Learning
navigate in a
complex life system
Paracraft
Self-Directed
Edu
Life
ADD YOUR TEXT
Learning
Knowledge
By Life Center, we feel and sense the
space of life, we sense Significant
Experiences and build up Knowledge
Models. By Life Center, agile interaction
and layer by layer approach are possible.
It is all about space.
Life
Life Center, Space
Life
1.1 Paracraft Education: Life
Feel of space
Feel
Feel
Programming: study of Life Center
Subjective?
The New Science
• No compulsory
• Learning by one’s own needs, paces and ways
• Parents involvement: donating equipment
• Help students finding mentors
• Students participate in school management
• Equality, richness, self-initiative, interests, do ,
make change, focus , hardship, authentic,
challenge, experiences, observe, self-reflection
SDE is about Life
Power
of
Self-Directed Education
Standard
/05
Reflection
and
Thinking
The New Education Paradigm
The Old Education Paradigm
VS.
Knowledge and Teacher
Old Education Paradigm
• One textbook by a non-
professional
• Teach by teacher’s book,
learning mechanically: lesson,
homework, tests, (often fake)
projects
• Teachers having no models
• Teachers not touched
• Documents
• Teacher trying to maintain fake
authority
New Education Paradigm
• Many “books” from
professionals
• Learn organically
• Teachers with rich models
• Teachers touched many
times before
• Models built from
Significant Experiences
• Equality although teachers
have more abstract models
Parents involvement
Old Education Paradigm
• Parents don’t understand
– Separated by the so called
knowledge content, the pillar of Old
Education Paradigm
• Parents excluded of education,
education only belongs to children
• Parents not educated about
education
– it belongs to experts
New Education Paradigm
• Parents can understand
• Parents part of it
• Teach parents about
education
Teacher-Student Relation
Old Education Paradigm
• War with children, animal
tamers
• No related knowledge, try
to maintain an authority
• Teachers not learning
New Education Paradigm
• Fun and relaxed
• Easy for teachers with true
knowledge
• Learning together
– Best way to learn is to teach
• They are professionals, they
want to learn
– Learning about children and
about yourself
– Learning about learning
– Learning about education:
everyone needs to be parents
Teacher Training
Old Education Paradigm
• Teachers have no
professional knowledge of
the field, teach full time
• Validate and certify
teachers by testing with
standard knowledge
• Process: teacher college,
lessons
• No professional career. No
learning!
New Education Paradigm
• Teachers are professionals, the best
teachers, teach in spare time
• Validate and certify teachers by
models and past works
• Process:
– Read our brochure and past
digitalized records to get the idea
– Practice:
• Learn in the same format as students
in learning center
• Observe and help current
teachers/mentors
• Trial period, record learning sessions
• We provide feedbacks
• Part of career learning. Never stop
learning!
Online Learning, Distant Learning
Old Education Paradigm
• Fixed places: classroom
• Fixed time: lessons
• Learning separated from life
• Learning separated from
society
• Learning separated from
playing
• Books or documents are not
digitized knowledge
New Education Paradigm
• Flexible: Learn at any place
• Flexible: Learn at any time
• Learning in life
• Learning in society
• Learning while playing
• Significant Experiences and
Models are digitized
knowledge
• Distant Learning and Teaching
• Drops of time, learn all the time, learn anywhere
• Digitalized
– Find good teachers online, those who can best answer your
questions or give advices, or by their models
– Shared knowledge models, Rich knowledge models, Rich
Knowledge
– Regulate teachers, Provide feedbacks, Professional training
– Get feedbacks on the playground and how to improve
Online Learning made possible
• A lot more powerful
• Deep Reasons:
– True learning/education/knowledge is universal,
fun, not cut off from life, community and playing
– So learning and teaching can be connected, can be
done in real life, not fixed and can transform to
the other
– So online learning is possible
Why SDE is better
Do we need it?
•Significant Experiences
• Basic units of knowledge
•Models
Model
Build
complex life systems
using the basic units
Life
04 The New STANDARD
Life
Model
05 New Education Paradigm: Life Education
Rich Models
Teach many books
Mentors guide
Professionals?
Rich Knowledge
On the fly
Bound to students
interests and Activity
In Time
Always, sometimes on
the fly
Complex life system
always needs design
Design
Students building their
own knowledge
Personal
Sensing of Life Centers
Students sensing of knowledge
and their self
Teachers sensing of students
Education Design
Create works of life
Feel
Knowledge Models
Paracraft
Significant Experiences
Life
ADD YOUR TEXT
Learning
Knowledge
Life
Life Center, Space
Life
06 Life Education
Life
Fun Beauty
Love
More of Life
New
07 Peaceful Forces of Life
• The ultimate goal is to understand life/self
– Cultivate strong learning capabilities – through
learning of many things
– Learn of Life
Life Education
Uniqueness of
Paracraft Education
/06
• The Sudbury for the mass
– Same:
• Applied the same life principles
• Not compulsory, driven by interest (because of Paracraft)
• The same principle of teaching, good relation with students
– Different:
• Work with the current system, the old edu paradigm
– No curriculum. But parents want to know what being taught
» We need to outline knowledge, but by models
» We record what children and teachers learned for each session
• Models for both students and teachers
» Works
• Mainly work with Paracraft instead of many other types of activities
• Not many teachers
• Just part of students’ life
• Apply what you learned to other things in your life
• The new standard: model
• Teacher training:
• Scaling: this can scale
• Made possible by Paracraft and Knowledge Engine
What is Paracraft Edu?
• Will SDE work inside the old edu paradigm?
– Can restore and cultivate self-learning?
• Self-learning can work anywhere
• Apply life principles freely in the old edu context
– Can lead to good test scores?
• Self-learning can deal with non-optimal situations and make best out of it
– Can prove to be a much better biz model?
• With parents, teacher training, content producing
– Can scale?
• Teachers resource
• How will the process be?
– Can reach out and convert?
• Market force?
• Education Policy?
Questions for us
Questions for them
• Someone who truly understand self-learning,
with rich learning experiences
Do it right
Knowledge Models
Paracraft
Significant Experiences
Life
ADD YOUR TEXT
Learning
Knowledge
Everything is about space. Life rises from
space, so we have life centers, and life
centers building up bigger life centers
and with multiple layers. Spatial thinking
is essential. We need to always feel of
space.
Life
Life Center, Space
Life
1.3 Paracraft Education: Spatial Thinking
3D Space Modeling
Creative space: Spatial
Spatial Sensing, Spatial Thinking
3D Scenes and Models
Cultivate spatial sensing with 3D Scenes and
Models
Programming
Software Programming is to study the space, such
as modeling the space
Life Center
Life is space
Learning
Learning is free navigation in space, building
up spatial abstract knowledge models
Animation Movie
Space with time sequences
Creative space: Play, Learn, Create
L e a r n
P l a y
Life
C r e a t e Only three things to do
Knowledge Models
?
Significant Experiences
Life
ADD YOUR TEXT
Learning
Knowledge
It is not just about learning of the
knowledge, but more importantly it is
about learning how to learn, and get rich
experiences with what life is about.
Life
Life Center, Space
Life
1.4 Life Education
• Children like it
• Rich activity
• Rich knowledge
• Have modeling
• Practice spatial
• Have programming
Theoretical Framework
/07
• Life Center
• Degree of Life
• Life Generating Process
• Space
• Model
• Subject and Object Unification
– Feel of Space
Life Framework
Christopher Alexander
Pattern Language: OOP, Design Pattern
Nature of Order
Make strong centers
Find the basic units
Layer by layer
List: same or similar
08 Life Center
• Life Framework applied to Computer
Science/Software Programming
• Life Framework applied to Education
• Life Framework applied to Management
• Life Framework applied to Biology and
Chemistry
• Life Framework applied to Physics
• Life Framework applied to Math
Life Framework
Orgs and Links
/08
Paracraft
http://paracraft.org https://keepwork.com
Paracraft Creative Space
https://keepwork.com/official/paracraft/selflearning
Alliance for Self-Directed Education
( ASDE )
https://www.self-directed.org/
Open Source Learning
http://www.opensourcelearning.org
Explore, Express, Experience
https://3exps.org/ Knowledge Engine
When you see
students
running and
panting to
learning, you
have very good
students.
Thank You!
We are all self-learners. Make self-learning easier!
Explore, Experience, Express.
Let’s bring out the true face of learning!

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Paracraft for Self-Directed Education

  • 2. CONTENTS Intro What is Paracraft How we teach? Part 1: facts  Model  Life How we teach? Part 2: in depth Standard Power of Self-Directed EduPower of Self-Directed Edu Sudbury for the mass Uniqueness of Paracraft Edu Theoretical Framework Orgs and Links
  • 4. Knowledge Models Paracraft Significant Experiences Life ADD YOUR TEXT Learning Knowledge It is not just about learning of the knowledge, but more importantly it is about learning how to learn, and get rich experiences with what life is about. Life Life Center, Space Life 1.0 Paracraft Education
  • 13. Equality Feelings and Emotions Thoughts and Ideas Uniqueness and Diversity Play and Fun • Express yourself • Touch others • Create Craftsmanship • 3D • Movie making • Programming Skills 02 Paracraft: Life
  • 17. • Power to build life/world with blocks Interest– kids love it!
  • 18.
  • 19.
  • 20.
  • 24. Express Life Create Life Self-Learning navigate in a complex life system Paracraft Self-Directed Edu Life ADD YOUR TEXT Learning Knowledge By Life Center, we feel and sense the space of life, we sense Significant Experiences and build up Knowledge Models . By Life Center, agile interaction and layer by layer approach are possible. It is all about space. Life Life Center, Space Life 1.1 Paracraft Education: Life
  • 25. Knowledge Models Paracraft Significant Experiences Life ADD YOUR TEXT Learning Knowledge It is not just about learning of the knowledge, but more importantly it is about learning how to learn, and get rich experiences with what life is about. Life Life Center, Space Life 1.0 Paracraft Education
  • 26. Knowledge in Paracraft  3D animation  Programming
  • 27.
  • 29. How we teach? Part 1: Facts /03
  • 30. How to teach? • We don’t teach • How Children learn • Let children learn by themselves
  • 31. Express Life Create Life Self-Learning navigate in a complex life system Paracraft Self-Directed Edu Life ADD YOUR TEXT Learning Knowledge By Life Center, we feel and sense the space of life, we sense Significant Experiences and build up Knowledge Models . By Life Center, agile interaction and layer by layer approach are possible. It is all about space. Life Life Center, Space Life 1.1 Paracraft Education: Life
  • 32. Paracraft for SDE • Self-Directed Learning • By models
  • 33. • Paracraft Learning Center: Creative Space – Make them learn by themselves, build a better playground – Observe and teach them how to learn How to teach? Part 1
  • 34. Paracraft Learning Center: Creative Space • Self-Directed Education • Sudbury, Summerhill, Learning Centers https://keepwork.com/official/paracraft/selflearning
  • 37. Videos marked with knowledge on timeline
  • 39.
  • 40. • Open a project by id • Switch to edit mode, open up code block and movie block to see • Projects sharing platform • Paracraft and NPL are Open Source Transparency of Paracraft
  • 43. • Mentors how to conduct a learning session – Models: you can only teach knowledge that you have 1. Don’t give direct answers. Know the models, know resources, point the direction 2. Ask other students 3. Demonstrate how to explore and learn 4. Improve the resources – Significant Experiences: you can only teach what have touched you before • We record students and mentors’ Significant Experiences, and share with each parent respectively Student Learning Sessions
  • 44. Learning Session Recorded: What students have learned
  • 45. Learning Session Recorded: What the teacher has learned
  • 46. • What you plan to do today – Parents can help write Before the session: learning plans
  • 47. • Students can write by themselves • 21st century skills? Build your own knowledge • Digitalize: Knowledge Engine After the session: What you have learned today
  • 48. • No lessons. We have more types of lessons. Lessons https://keepwork.com/official/docs/teach/lessons/paracraft_centers
  • 50. Static Electricity in Life https://api.keepwork.com/storage/v0/siteFiles/9535/raw#生活中的静电.mp4
  • 51. The Dark Side of the Moon
  • 53. How we teach? Part 2: Analysis Model Life /04
  • 55. Knowledge Models Paracraft Significant Experiences Life ADD YOUR TEXT Learning Knowledge Paracraft itself is about building 3d models and the programming in Paracraft is also about building models. Since the essential thing for Paracraft Edu is to learn how to learn, building knowledge models is the essential process for us. Life Life Center, Space Life 1.2 Paracraft Education: Model 3D Models Programming
  • 56. 1. Knowledge is model 2. Paracraft builds models Model
  • 57. • Built on sense: Significant Experiences • Identity • Imagination Knowledge Model
  • 59. 1. Knowledge is model – Knowledge Models in Paracraft – Learning: from Significant Experiences to abstract models 2. Paracraft builds models: models to models, concrete to abstract Model
  • 60. • Knowledge is Personal • Knowledge is Understanding • Knowledge is the Whole • Knowledge is Personal Understanding of the Whole • Knowledge is abstract models on neocortex, and is built from Significant Experiences Knowledge is Model
  • 61. • Learning is not linear • Constantly asking what models you are trying to build, what SEs you don’t have • The life centers to interact with, go agile • Layer by layer • Quick grasping of knowledge • Melting together of knowledge, otherwise too many things to remember • Children and adults: from existing models Learning by Models?
  • 62. SEs and Models Play Accumulate SEs Do projects Accumulate SEs Everyday life Accumulate SEs from everyday activities Create your own Create your own models from SEs Form whole Form understanding of the whole Significant Experiences Models Apply Apply knowledge is applying models Recognize Recognize knowledge from problems or students Guide Guide students according to models and SEs Problem Solving Apply models Feedback Feedback on models, new SEs
  • 63. • Best teachers only give big models and Significant Experiences – Share Significant Experiences – Where to gain Significant Experiences • Resources • Projects • Stay with good teachers, recognizing their models and Significant Experiences Teaching by models
  • 64. • Mentors how to conduct a learning session – Models: you can only teach knowledge that you have 1. Don’t give direct answers. Know the models, know resources, point the direction 2. Ask other students 3. Demonstrate how to explore and learn 4. Improve the resources – Significant Experiences: you can only teach what have touched you before • We record students and mentors’ Significant Experiences, and share with each parent respectively Teaching by models Student Learning Sessions
  • 65. • Students and Mentors building their own knowledge together Equality
  • 66. Model Knowledge Rich models Knowledge are widely connected Students can check their own models with Students can contribute Students Learn by models, go agile Evaluate by models and works TeacherTeach by models Recruit and evaluate by models and works Teacher training by models Certifying by models Parents Parents can understand and relate Parents can participate in Parents are learning as well Better parents relations 03 Education by Model Mentor Platform pick students pick mentor
  • 67. 1. Knowledge is model – Knowledge Models in Paracraft – Learning: from Significant Experiences to abstract models 2. Paracraft builds models: models to models, concrete to abstract Model
  • 69. • Programmers are craftsman! • They model! • Memory/Images + Programming = Programming Programming Models
  • 70. • Learning is to build models on neocortex • From Significant Experiences to Models • With models, you can learn in the agile way, with life Learning Models
  • 71. • Model is building space Model and Space
  • 72. • Paracraft is to create/express life • Learning/education is about life – Learning is to navigate in a complex life system – SDE is about life • Life is space: life centers Life What is Life?
  • 73. • Beyond Biology – Boundary – Exchange with outside – Response – Adapt – Metabolic – Reproduce – Basic Unit – Layer – Gathering – Emerging What is Life?
  • 74. Express Life Create Life Self-Learning navigate in a complex life system Paracraft Self-Directed Edu Life ADD YOUR TEXT Learning Knowledge By Life Center, we feel and sense the space of life, we sense Significant Experiences and build up Knowledge Models. By Life Center, agile interaction and layer by layer approach are possible. It is all about space. Life Life Center, Space Life 1.1 Paracraft Education: Life Feel of space Feel Feel Programming: study of Life Center
  • 76. • No compulsory • Learning by one’s own needs, paces and ways • Parents involvement: donating equipment • Help students finding mentors • Students participate in school management • Equality, richness, self-initiative, interests, do , make change, focus , hardship, authentic, challenge, experiences, observe, self-reflection SDE is about Life
  • 79. The New Education Paradigm The Old Education Paradigm VS.
  • 80. Knowledge and Teacher Old Education Paradigm • One textbook by a non- professional • Teach by teacher’s book, learning mechanically: lesson, homework, tests, (often fake) projects • Teachers having no models • Teachers not touched • Documents • Teacher trying to maintain fake authority New Education Paradigm • Many “books” from professionals • Learn organically • Teachers with rich models • Teachers touched many times before • Models built from Significant Experiences • Equality although teachers have more abstract models
  • 81. Parents involvement Old Education Paradigm • Parents don’t understand – Separated by the so called knowledge content, the pillar of Old Education Paradigm • Parents excluded of education, education only belongs to children • Parents not educated about education – it belongs to experts New Education Paradigm • Parents can understand • Parents part of it • Teach parents about education
  • 82. Teacher-Student Relation Old Education Paradigm • War with children, animal tamers • No related knowledge, try to maintain an authority • Teachers not learning New Education Paradigm • Fun and relaxed • Easy for teachers with true knowledge • Learning together – Best way to learn is to teach • They are professionals, they want to learn – Learning about children and about yourself – Learning about learning – Learning about education: everyone needs to be parents
  • 83. Teacher Training Old Education Paradigm • Teachers have no professional knowledge of the field, teach full time • Validate and certify teachers by testing with standard knowledge • Process: teacher college, lessons • No professional career. No learning! New Education Paradigm • Teachers are professionals, the best teachers, teach in spare time • Validate and certify teachers by models and past works • Process: – Read our brochure and past digitalized records to get the idea – Practice: • Learn in the same format as students in learning center • Observe and help current teachers/mentors • Trial period, record learning sessions • We provide feedbacks • Part of career learning. Never stop learning!
  • 84. Online Learning, Distant Learning Old Education Paradigm • Fixed places: classroom • Fixed time: lessons • Learning separated from life • Learning separated from society • Learning separated from playing • Books or documents are not digitized knowledge New Education Paradigm • Flexible: Learn at any place • Flexible: Learn at any time • Learning in life • Learning in society • Learning while playing • Significant Experiences and Models are digitized knowledge
  • 85. • Distant Learning and Teaching • Drops of time, learn all the time, learn anywhere • Digitalized – Find good teachers online, those who can best answer your questions or give advices, or by their models – Shared knowledge models, Rich knowledge models, Rich Knowledge – Regulate teachers, Provide feedbacks, Professional training – Get feedbacks on the playground and how to improve Online Learning made possible
  • 86. • A lot more powerful • Deep Reasons: – True learning/education/knowledge is universal, fun, not cut off from life, community and playing – So learning and teaching can be connected, can be done in real life, not fixed and can transform to the other – So online learning is possible Why SDE is better
  • 87. Do we need it? •Significant Experiences • Basic units of knowledge •Models Model Build complex life systems using the basic units Life 04 The New STANDARD
  • 88. Life Model 05 New Education Paradigm: Life Education Rich Models Teach many books Mentors guide Professionals? Rich Knowledge On the fly Bound to students interests and Activity In Time Always, sometimes on the fly Complex life system always needs design Design Students building their own knowledge Personal Sensing of Life Centers Students sensing of knowledge and their self Teachers sensing of students Education Design Create works of life Feel
  • 89. Knowledge Models Paracraft Significant Experiences Life ADD YOUR TEXT Learning Knowledge Life Life Center, Space Life 06 Life Education
  • 90. Life Fun Beauty Love More of Life New 07 Peaceful Forces of Life
  • 91. • The ultimate goal is to understand life/self – Cultivate strong learning capabilities – through learning of many things – Learn of Life Life Education
  • 93. • The Sudbury for the mass – Same: • Applied the same life principles • Not compulsory, driven by interest (because of Paracraft) • The same principle of teaching, good relation with students – Different: • Work with the current system, the old edu paradigm – No curriculum. But parents want to know what being taught » We need to outline knowledge, but by models » We record what children and teachers learned for each session • Models for both students and teachers » Works • Mainly work with Paracraft instead of many other types of activities • Not many teachers • Just part of students’ life • Apply what you learned to other things in your life • The new standard: model • Teacher training: • Scaling: this can scale • Made possible by Paracraft and Knowledge Engine What is Paracraft Edu?
  • 94. • Will SDE work inside the old edu paradigm? – Can restore and cultivate self-learning? • Self-learning can work anywhere • Apply life principles freely in the old edu context – Can lead to good test scores? • Self-learning can deal with non-optimal situations and make best out of it – Can prove to be a much better biz model? • With parents, teacher training, content producing – Can scale? • Teachers resource • How will the process be? – Can reach out and convert? • Market force? • Education Policy? Questions for us
  • 96. • Someone who truly understand self-learning, with rich learning experiences Do it right
  • 97. Knowledge Models Paracraft Significant Experiences Life ADD YOUR TEXT Learning Knowledge Everything is about space. Life rises from space, so we have life centers, and life centers building up bigger life centers and with multiple layers. Spatial thinking is essential. We need to always feel of space. Life Life Center, Space Life 1.3 Paracraft Education: Spatial Thinking 3D Space Modeling
  • 98. Creative space: Spatial Spatial Sensing, Spatial Thinking 3D Scenes and Models Cultivate spatial sensing with 3D Scenes and Models Programming Software Programming is to study the space, such as modeling the space Life Center Life is space Learning Learning is free navigation in space, building up spatial abstract knowledge models Animation Movie Space with time sequences
  • 99. Creative space: Play, Learn, Create L e a r n P l a y Life C r e a t e Only three things to do
  • 100. Knowledge Models ? Significant Experiences Life ADD YOUR TEXT Learning Knowledge It is not just about learning of the knowledge, but more importantly it is about learning how to learn, and get rich experiences with what life is about. Life Life Center, Space Life 1.4 Life Education • Children like it • Rich activity • Rich knowledge • Have modeling • Practice spatial • Have programming
  • 102. • Life Center • Degree of Life • Life Generating Process • Space • Model • Subject and Object Unification – Feel of Space Life Framework Christopher Alexander Pattern Language: OOP, Design Pattern Nature of Order
  • 103. Make strong centers Find the basic units Layer by layer List: same or similar 08 Life Center
  • 104. • Life Framework applied to Computer Science/Software Programming • Life Framework applied to Education • Life Framework applied to Management • Life Framework applied to Biology and Chemistry • Life Framework applied to Physics • Life Framework applied to Math Life Framework
  • 108. Alliance for Self-Directed Education ( ASDE ) https://www.self-directed.org/
  • 111. When you see students running and panting to learning, you have very good students.
  • 112. Thank You! We are all self-learners. Make self-learning easier! Explore, Experience, Express. Let’s bring out the true face of learning!