DC
EXPERIENCES --> LESSONS --> PLAN

EXPERIENCES / LESSONS:
  • Learned French & Swedish by Living there
  • I shouldn't Cheat!  I didn't know I was cheating until friend accused me.
  • Shocked at the technical sophistication when visiting Hong Kong
  • Learned Home Repair by myself.
  • Learned by making my own toys in Dad's workshop when I was a boy.
  • Learned to program by programming
  • Learned after schooling because of curiosity
  • The “Basics” – what are they?  Civic Citizenship; Reading; Validating
  • Provided independence / space
  • Build a routine
  • "Learning is not linear"
  • Focus on relationships
  • Teaching
  • Relationship w/content / authenticity
  • Have a problem to solve
  • Look for challenges
  • Kill two+ birds with a stone
  • Play
  • Self-direction
  • Peer learning
  • Curiosity
  • Engagement trumps content


THE CONDITIONS:
  • Engagement trumps content
  • You know you're learning, that you know more than you did before, that you can do more than you could before.
  • Experience
  • Imersion
  • Interacting with content & environment
  • Personal realization
  • How you're made to feel
  • How you make yourself feel
  • Discovered fallacy of personal assumptions
  • A practical need
  • Resources to “play with”
  • It Works!  I Doesn't Work!
  • Learning something that's new
  • Owning the Knowledge
  • Grew up with lots of conversation about anything of interest
  • “Getting the Teacher off the Subject”
  • Responsibility
  • Curiosity (about right answer)

PLAN
  1. CAN ANYONE ELSE DO THIS FOR YOU?

BECOMING A CHANGE-MAKER
  • Passions
  • Personal Web Presence
  • Modeling
  • Project from HYE

LONG TAIL WORLD
  • When the evidence of what we can do is what we've actually done rather than what someone else says we can do.

A - B - C
  • A -> C:  control, laws, dependency
  • A - > B:  constitution, independence, "process," CONVERSATION
  • Building a "system:"  the choice between control and independence
  • Process:  how do you enable / support / encourage?
    • How has it been done with homeschoolers / marathoners?
    • One on one, helping.  See Dale Dougherty keynote from GEC 2012.

RESOURCES