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ABOUT
This project
Handschooling
Golden Swamp
FAQ

SUBJECT SAMPLER

BLOGS
GoldenSwamp
Learnodes

ABOUT
HANDSCHOOLING

Individual student mobile access
Global study subject commons
Same page equality
The right to connect
Underclasses and girls
Other people's children
Future of schooling

ABOUT THE GOLDEN SWAMP
Networks Intertwingle everything
Findability and SEO
Emergent knowledge
Network vetting empowers expert
Long tail learning 80/20
The adjacent possible
Implications for world peace

HOW
YOU CAN HELP
Teacher
Educator
Expert
Parent
Publisher
Telcons
Device makers

 

Combining these 2 BIG IDEAS is key:

1. Handschooling: Getting an individual mobile device with wireless broadband browsing to every youngster, so that each of them can connect to:

2. The golden swamp: The aspect of the internet where what is known by humankind has nestled into the open online network forming a self-vetting ecosystem that allows everyone to learn from the same virtual page.

child with mobile

These 2 ideas are creating a golden age of learning for generations born in the 21st century.

 

student using laptopThe last generation of 20th century students pioneered learning online with desktops, plugged in laptops, and now mobile laptops.

Posts about Handschooling coming soon

 

 

 

HANDSCHOOLING defined:

Owning an individual mobile device with wireless broadband browsing activates handschooling for the student it belongs to.

Handschooling can happen in classrooms, on school buses, at home, in a village with no school, in a slum with no school, for children schooled at home, for girls not allowed to go to school -- and in any other situation where a youngster's curiosity motivates him or her to connect the the golden swamp to learn something.

Handschooling is not just for the young. It can be for learning very simple subjects or anything more complicated, including knowledge on the cutting edge in the most complex fields of knowledge.

zac the rat zac the rat There is simple stuff like Zac the Rat which can be used by very young children to learn letters and sounds.

 

And complex stuff like Light echoes Tycho’s supernova that Brahe saw in 1572

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ipod in child hands

Devices will vary -- Laptops, tablets, cellphones . . .