Hi Artik, Check out: http://schoolofeverything.com/
Yishay On Tuesday, May 29, 2012, Artik Cah wrote: > I'm reaching out to Free Skool, Skill-Share, and Alternative University > practitioners and organizers, parents who homeschool, artists who work with > digital media and most importantly web developers and designers with an > inclination towards radical educational models. > > I want to propose an idea that I think would align with many of the values > of this list serve and would help in creating and promoting alternative > frameworks for organizing and spreading non-hierachical and free learning > in urban environments. > > I would like to gather a group to develop an easy to use website which > would allow people within a city to connect and learn skills and knowledge > from each-other. The website would allow people to easily connect and offer > to teach a class, lecture or skill, request a class, sign up for a class or > offer a location for others to use. The website would make it easy for > someone seeking a specific skill to find someone else in their city who > would be able to share that skill. This would essentially be a site akin > to craigslist or couch surfing with a sole emphasis on creating networks of > learning within cities. > > It's a pretty simple idea, but I think this would be a powerful tool for > students of all kinds (especially those involved in the current tuition > hike strikes in Canada), parents interested in creating homeschool co-ops > for the education of their children and the general public sympathetic to > causes which moves our society beyond its current hierarchical > infrastructure. While the explosion of free classes online is exciting, I > still think we need to develop infrastructure which brings people together > to learn from each-other in the same physical location. The model allows > for all types of knowledge, be it technical, philosophical, artistic, > tactical, practical etc. to be shared freely throughout our communities. In > this model everyone is seen as both a teacher and a student. > > I'm baffled as to why this alternative educational model exists on such a > modest level and it seems only within radical communities, when ideally > entire cities could be structured with full on educational > systems/skill-sharing where learning together was a norm. I think a website > like this would empower all kinds of people to see themselves as possessing > knowledge to be shared with others. In New Orleans the free skool is not > located in any one place but can take place across the city wherever space > is available (in parks, at community centers, in homes)- because free > skools can operate in such a decentralized fashion, it seems ideal to > organize them online. > > I imagine such a website supporting other free skools and educational > initiatives already in existence within communities: > - http://tradeschool.coop/ > - http://corvidcollege.wikidot.com/ > - http://santacruz.freeskool.org/ > - http://freeschool.redemmas.org/ > - http://platformed.org/ > - (There's http://www.skillshare.com/ and http://hourschool.com/ but they > are both based on money-making principles) > > Looking for your thoughts on the matter; pitfalls, objections, interest, > other ideas, friends who may be interested , alternative educational models > , feasibility etc. I am in the process of organizing an online group of > developers and consultants who would work on this project together online. > Please let me know if you would like to be involved in whatever capacity. > > > Blessings, > > Kitra Cahana > > www.kitracahana.com > (Photojournalist) > > -- Sent from my tablet
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