Week 1 - Finding Participants 

  • Leverage social graph
  • Email friends
  • Post flyers in neighborhood
  • Talk about it at parties
  • P2PU, Freeschool, and other casual learning communities
  • Unschooling Yahoo Groups

Week 2 - Organizing Your Collage

  • Decide where to meet
  • Decide who brings food
  • How to use this platform 
  • Other online tools that can be useful
  • Printing syllabi for the group

Week 3 - Building Your Curriculum 

  • Primary vs. Secondary sources
  • Obtain logins for online journals
  • Google scholar
  • Textbooks
  • Build off of existing college courses
  • See what overlaps and what's missing
  • Locate experts and ask them specific questions
  • Involve the group in the planning process

Week 4 - Empowering Self-Directed Learners

  • Money
  • Food
  • You're smart vs. You're hard working
  • Engagement, presentations, and rotating responsibilities 
  • Ivan Illich
  • Innate curiosity
  • Turning students into teachers
  • The question of scale in education
  • Permission not required

Week 5 - Self-Assessment/Knowledge

  • Setting learning goals
  • Finding experts who will help you asses certain problems 
  • Deliberate practice 
  • Know your learning preference

Week 6 - Start your Own Collage

  • Document your syllabus
  • The importance of sharing 
  • Final project: Start your own collage

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