What If We Trusted You?

Why? scale chaos docile consumers lack of trust Every PC is a... and much more We're getting connected Education School Home School Unschool Free-Range Kids EduPunks Compulsory Education System We create artificial scarcity over and over Learn: Deschool 6th Grade 5th Grade 4th Grade 3rd Grade Meaning What If We Trusted You? TEDxCopenhagen 18 September, 2012 by Jerry Michalski cc: by-nc-sa Assumptions School Kids are lazy, incurious, unruly and stupid. They can't be trusted. Unschool Kids are good, curious and smart. We're born to learn. Ask me about the Texas School Board Math Class 10 mins: Quiet down 5 mins: Take roll 10 mins: Go over homework 25 mins: Actual lesson 10 mins: Go to next class! Science Outside Danger! Liability! Controversy! Consequence! The Hidden Curriculum John Taylor Gatto Stay in the class where you belong Only I determine what curriculum you will study Surrender your will to a predestined chain of command Your self-respect should depend on an observer's measure of your worth Turn off when I tell you to You are being watched Six-Lesson Schoolteacher The Underground History of American Education History Math & Science Geometry Organic Chemistry Colonialism Thermodynamics Café Society The Enlightenment Fair Trade Business Food Economics Supply Chains Markets Marketing Starbucks Cooking Nutrition Botany Stimulants any object or question connected to real life anywhere (travel!) from anyone at any time Science Governance Management Finance Telecom Entertainment Architecture Urban Design Retail Goods Agriculture Food Information Journalism Mistrust Scarcity = Abundance - Trust Abundance Healing their curiosity 100 hours naïve? mistrust we? you? us! Opportunity! Medicine Open Science Hackerspaces Makers Galaxy Zoo Citizen Science Arxiv.org Public Library of Science BioBricks Garage Biology Advertising Open Space DIY Barcamps Makers Hackerspaces Collaboration We're learning to: retake responsibility redefine the good life re-weave social fabric Open Content Remix Culture User-Generated Content Peer Production Crowdsourcing Fansubbing Mapping Parties Geocaching Health Care Participatory Medicine Social Fitness Quantitative Self Alternative Currencies Microfinance Time Banking New Notions of Wealth Consumerism Voluntary Simplicity Collaborative Consumption Resource Sharing Gift Economy Burning Man Buy Less Stuff Authenticity Transparency Word of Mouth/Mouse Workplace Democracy Firms of Endearment Creating Shared Value Theory U (and Presencing) Transparency For-Benefit Companies Results Oriented Work Environment Polycentric Governance Participatory Budgeting Deliberative Democracy Citizen Circles Open Government Gov2.0 Transparency Justice Truth & Reconciliation Non-Violent Communication Restorative Justice Citizen Journalism Fact Checking Tweeting Blogging Open Content Everywhere Wikipedia Open Government OpenStreetMaps Open Data Form-Based Codes Pattern Languages Shared Spaces Traffic Calming Tiny Houses EcoVillages Intentional Communities Natural Farming Raw Food Fruit Exchanges Yard Sharing Urban Gardening No-Till Farming Pay What You Want Restaurants Sustainability EcoFeminism Spectrum Refarming DIY Fiber OpenBTS OpenSDR Software Defined Networking Net Neutrality Creative Commons Fan-Made Movies Ultra Wideband Smart Antennas with anyone Enter Technology Five-Year-Olds Biomimicry We can leave things for each other We don't trust you to learn without having to. Add trust... Heresy! To summarize School Qualified teachers scarce, underpaid Budgets decimated Limited, regulated curriculum Your class/grade Your classroom(s) 25 mins + hmwrk Meaning?? Yours Unschool Anyone ??? Anything Anyone Anywhere Anytime Consequences! Mine Item Teachers Resources Curriculum Cohort Place Time Meaning Responsibility What if we trusted you? What if we trusted you? The Bigger Picture Trust But wait! Poor, dual-income families? Minimum standards? Certification? Measurement? Extraordinary time Transportation Religion