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The Lighthouse Community Charter School Creativity Lab's vision is to give people from all walks of life the opportunity to participate in designing and making. We are building a K-12 program on site both to serve our own students, but also to help others see how design-make can be integrated into an entire school program.

1 Cosma Orsi on The Political Economy of Solidarity 2 Bruno Perens on The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source 3 James Quilligan on a framework for Global Commons-based Governance 4 Alan Rayner: Attuning to Natural Energy Flows vs. Abstract Economic Rationality 5 Dirk Riehle on the Economics of Open Source Software 6 David Ronfeldt on the Evolution of Governance 7 Marshall Sahlins on The Original Affluent Society 8 Graham Seaman: Can peer production make washing machines? 9 Clay Shirky on the web as evolvable system 10 David Skrbina, the participatory worldview 11 Bruno Theret, on the tradition of 'civil socialism' 12 Evan Thompson, on the enactive theory of consciousness 13 Jeff Vail, The Problem of Growth: Hierarchy vs. the Rhizome 14 Kazys Varnelis on how network culture differs from postmodernism 15 Roberto Verzola on Undermining vs. Developing Abundance 16 Raoul Victor, on Free Software, the sharing culture, and Marxism

16 influential papers on Open Education collected by P2P Foundation

Maine's Cohort for Customized Learning have organized Costa and Ballick's Habits of Mind into three main areas: Reflective Learner (Understanding Oneself), Self-Directed Learner (Improving Oneself), Collaborative Worker (Working with Others). I look forward to learning how they move forward, especially as correlated with Maine's version of soft skills, the Guiding Principles.

"Decides what the student needs to learn Finds out how much of it is already known Constructs the appropriate learning pathway & starts the learning cycle"

"If deeper learning is the ultimate goal, can it be taught? To a certain degree. But for educators to engage in deeper learning with students, researchers say they must begin with clear goals and let students know what's expected of them. They must provide multiple and different kinds of ideas and tasks. They must encourage questioning and discussion, challenge them and offer support and guidance. They must use carefully selected curriculum and use formative assessments to measure and support students' progress."

"Three important developments stand to dramatically change the way we think about degree programs and pathways: The rapid adoption of competency-based education (CBE) programs, often using industry and employer authority for guiding the creation of the competencies and thus programs An eventual move to suborganizational accreditation, with Title IV funds available for credits, courses, and microcredentials offered by new providers in new delivery models, part of the accelerating trend toward "unbundling" higher education Increasing recognition that postsecondary education will no longer be contained to the existing and traditional degree levels but will instead be consumed at various levels of granularity-less than full degree programs and continuing throughout lives and careers"

I agree. I used to link to them at many of my Free Interne to Libraries but when he got money they got pretty and less useful. I explore the tech issue at my Geekability site. It is illogical to thing tech will lower the economic spread between people. See http://www.textbooksfree.org/Geekability%20the%20New%20Intelligence%20Destroying%20America's%20Middle%20Class.htm and http://www.textbooksfree.org/Free%20Internet%20Libraries.htm

Guide - How can your Learning Become More Transparent

Very cool! Just learned about this new statewide PLA initiative.