Upgrading your Communications \/ Messaging 2.0

If you’ve gotten the basics down in talking about Agile Learning Centers then it’s time to expand your capacities. It’s very useful to be able to be able to place ALCs in context: within an ongoing evolution of educational systems that have been designed for particular purposes and yield particular results. We also have been building some tools to help answer challenging questions, and even provide substantial data for the skeptics that want to see “proof” that it works.

ALC in Context

To better communiate about ALCs, it is important to expanding your fluency in the history of schooling and landscape of educational alternatives.

Factory Schooling (History)

Prussian system / Underground History of American Education

Alternatives

Progessive Education: Waldorf, Montessori, Regio Emilia

Roots/Influences of ALC: Summerhill, Open Classroom, Free Schooling, Democratic Free Schools, Sudbury Valley School, Intentional Communities, Agile Software Development

Pedagogy/Philosophy: Self-Directed Education from the Oxford Research Encyclopedias

Having the “Difficult” Conversations