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A crash course in changing the world.
Time for a critique! My Evokation: The Human Powered School
Here's my latest draft of my proposal. Let me know what you think. What sounds great? What's not clear? Is there anything else I should include?
Also, as far as the project's needs, right now the most crucial thing I need is a good, free, open source way to integrate some kind of profile page system into a wiki site. That and some brainstorming on a fun name for this site. (I'd love to use a non-english word or phrase, if possible. Anyone want to translate "beautiful school" or "my body school" into other languages?)
Anyway, here it is!
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1. The Place. Where will you make a difference? Describe the institution, community, town or other geographic or virtual space in which you will focus your efforts.
The world! On the web, and in person anywhere there are humans curious about how to take better care of their bodies, and use their bodies to solve problems.
2. The Challenge. What will you aim to change, and for whom? Highlight what is the need that you perceive and who will benefit from this change.
Over half a century ago psychologist Abraham Maslow researched the basic needs for humans to become healthy, successful, and even transcendent beings who feel they are a part of a much larger wh*** and are motivated to contribute great things to the world. Yet a large percentage of humans on the planet still aren't able to regularly get the absolute bottom line needs that Maslow called the Physiological and Safety needs so that they can be healthy at their core, and take good care of their world.
With modern research, and what I like to call Maslow 2.0, we can more easily define those two levels of needs as:
Access to healthy physical inputs
- Wh*** Food
- Clean Water
- Fresh Air
- Warmth
- Light
The freedom to express physical outputs
- Solids (poop, salt, etc.)
- Liquids (pee, sweat, etc.)
- Gases (CO2, etc.)
- Energy (movement, sounds, static charge, etc.)
The change this Evokation is looking for is an increase in every human being's ability to get those basic needs met, both through education about what these needs are, and though practical solutions to getting those needs met in a variety of creative and sustainable ways, by making skillful use of the abundance of energy and creativity of the young people of the world, who generally have more free time, and are nearly always looking for ways to use their personal resources for the benefit of their families, communities, cultures, and even the planet as a wh***.
3. The Idea. Your solution – what is the action, product, service, project, change that you will initiate? Tell us how will your idea will succeed where others have failed.
The intention of this Evokation is to have an open wiki site that functions something like an elementary school for all ages, focused on the basic needs for human living. The school will be a welcoming virtual space, and potentially physical spaces, for young people to be both teachers and students in the art of raising the quality of life for every individual on the planet (and off!). The focus will be on very simple, practical, affordable ways to get more quality things into the human body, and to more effectively use the things that human bodies produce. The website structure will be similar to Wikipedia and Instructables.com (without the ads!), with entries categorized by type of need, and content being formatted as simple instructions, usually with pictures. There will also be a social networking component, with opportunities for people to participate in discussions about solutions, and the opportunity for participants to create their own profile pages (with permission from an adult, for younger kids). The school will be open to all ages to learn and teach, however, the site itself will primarily be aimed at appealing to kids and teenagers, to offer young people those "opportunities to lead and succeed" that 12 year old TED talk presenter, Adora Svitak, calls on us adults to help create:
And the reason this project will succeed is because it's filling a need that no other school has filled, to offer kids and teens the opportunity to become skilled at taking excellent care of the world, and to blow us older folks away...
4. The Money. What would you do with your first US$1,000 given or invested in support of your vision?
This Evokation is effectively money independent. However, any money donated to the project will indeed be useful in helping secure long-term website hosting, and possibly pay small stipends for those individuals who contribute to the back-end structure of the website, as well as possibly helping teams of young people get the technology tools they need to doc**ent their solutions (digital cameras, for example).
Even more useful will be businesses that have environmentally safe, extra byproducts to donate to local groups of young people, so that the kids and teens can be more effective in learning how to use their local community's extra resources for creative problem solving. Working with the resources you've got is a crucial element of sustainability, so encouraging young problem solvers to use, recycle, and reuse materials that are locally abundant are primary aims of the school.
Ultimately, though, this project is quite literally Human Powered, not money powered, so nearly all of the contributions to the success of the school will come directly from humans! So, really, we don't need much money to succeed, instead, we need your human passion and creativity and love to succeed!
Also, as far as the project's needs, right now the most crucial thing I need is a good, free, open source way to integrate some kind of profile page system into a wiki site. That and some brainstorming on a fun name for this site. (I'd love to use a non-english word or phrase, if possible. Anyone want to translate "beautiful school" or "my body school" into other languages?)
Anyway, here it is!
...
1. The Place. Where will you make a difference? Describe the institution, community, town or other geographic or virtual space in which you will focus your efforts.
The world! On the web, and in person anywhere there are humans curious about how to take better care of their bodies, and use their bodies to solve problems.
2. The Challenge. What will you aim to change, and for whom? Highlight what is the need that you perceive and who will benefit from this change.
Over half a century ago psychologist Abraham Maslow researched the basic needs for humans to become healthy, successful, and even transcendent beings who feel they are a part of a much larger wh*** and are motivated to contribute great things to the world. Yet a large percentage of humans on the planet still aren't able to regularly get the absolute bottom line needs that Maslow called the Physiological and Safety needs so that they can be healthy at their core, and take good care of their world.
With modern research, and what I like to call Maslow 2.0, we can more easily define those two levels of needs as:
Access to healthy physical inputs
- Wh*** Food
- Clean Water
- Fresh Air
- Warmth
- Light
The freedom to express physical outputs
- Solids (poop, salt, etc.)
- Liquids (pee, sweat, etc.)
- Gases (CO2, etc.)
- Energy (movement, sounds, static charge, etc.)
The change this Evokation is looking for is an increase in every human being's ability to get those basic needs met, both through education about what these needs are, and though practical solutions to getting those needs met in a variety of creative and sustainable ways, by making skillful use of the abundance of energy and creativity of the young people of the world, who generally have more free time, and are nearly always looking for ways to use their personal resources for the benefit of their families, communities, cultures, and even the planet as a wh***.
3. The Idea. Your solution – what is the action, product, service, project, change that you will initiate? Tell us how will your idea will succeed where others have failed.
The intention of this Evokation is to have an open wiki site that functions something like an elementary school for all ages, focused on the basic needs for human living. The school will be a welcoming virtual space, and potentially physical spaces, for young people to be both teachers and students in the art of raising the quality of life for every individual on the planet (and off!). The focus will be on very simple, practical, affordable ways to get more quality things into the human body, and to more effectively use the things that human bodies produce. The website structure will be similar to Wikipedia and Instructables.com (without the ads!), with entries categorized by type of need, and content being formatted as simple instructions, usually with pictures. There will also be a social networking component, with opportunities for people to participate in discussions about solutions, and the opportunity for participants to create their own profile pages (with permission from an adult, for younger kids). The school will be open to all ages to learn and teach, however, the site itself will primarily be aimed at appealing to kids and teenagers, to offer young people those "opportunities to lead and succeed" that 12 year old TED talk presenter, Adora Svitak, calls on us adults to help create:
"The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been. Which may be a little challenging considering you guy's credentials... But the way progress happens is because new generations and new eras grow and become better than the previous ones. It's the reason we're not in the dark ages anymore. No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative that you create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away."
And the reason this project will succeed is because it's filling a need that no other school has filled, to offer kids and teens the opportunity to become skilled at taking excellent care of the world, and to blow us older folks away...
4. The Money. What would you do with your first US$1,000 given or invested in support of your vision?
This Evokation is effectively money independent. However, any money donated to the project will indeed be useful in helping secure long-term website hosting, and possibly pay small stipends for those individuals who contribute to the back-end structure of the website, as well as possibly helping teams of young people get the technology tools they need to doc**ent their solutions (digital cameras, for example).
Even more useful will be businesses that have environmentally safe, extra byproducts to donate to local groups of young people, so that the kids and teens can be more effective in learning how to use their local community's extra resources for creative problem solving. Working with the resources you've got is a crucial element of sustainability, so encouraging young problem solvers to use, recycle, and reuse materials that are locally abundant are primary aims of the school.
Ultimately, though, this project is quite literally Human Powered, not money powered, so nearly all of the contributions to the success of the school will come directly from humans! So, really, we don't need much money to succeed, instead, we need your human passion and creativity and love to succeed!
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Comment by Michele Baron on April 18, 2010 at 6:45pm
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this sounds great--would be fantastic addition to homeschooling or regular school. kudos
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Comment by Turil Cronburg on April 18, 2010 at 7:25pm
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Thanks for the translation Koshy. I'm thinking that it might be a bit long. Can you think of some sort of shortened, play on words of that?
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Comment by Roger Briggs on April 23, 2010 at 1:39pm
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Perhaps "feces" or just "solid waste" instead of poop.
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Comment by Nicholas Nagao on April 25, 2010 at 3:42am
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Turil,
I love the idea, but think you could think even bigger. Once you start putting up all of this content, you will be in a good position to get information out to more than just schools.
However, I also see some potential issues in the near future. Think about the way Wikipedia grew into something very organic. You should plan for that and try to find ways you can guide some of the growth in order to keep it focused for education. I'm not sure where you fall on how Evoke has turned out, although since you're doing an Evokation, I imagine you like what they've done. One of the only problems I've seen so far is that they didn't anticipate how organic this site would become and didn't put much thought into "guidance" and "redirection" of material that didn't fit their missions. I could see your project running into similar problems, especially since you probably want to limit what types of things the kids see.
Anyways, I love the sounds of the project, and am interested to see how it progresses.
Nick
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Nicholas, this isn't "for" schools, it is a school, and it's open to everyone in the world (and beyond!). So it's naturally already as big as it possibly could be. Can you tell me where the confusion came from that led you to think this was going to get information out to "just schools"? I'd like to correct any confusing parts of my proposal, so it's totally clear.
Also, it is naturally easy to guide the growth of the site, as it has a clearly defined purpose already in place. Information about practical solutions to getting more:
Access to healthy physical inputs
- Wh*** Food
- Clean Water
- Fresh Air
- Warmth
- Light
The freedom to express physical outputs
- Solids (poop, salt, etc.)
- Liquids (pee, sweat, etc.)
- Gases (CO2, etc.)
- Energy (movement, sounds, static charge, etc.)
And the guidelines for quality of content will be simple, perhaps something like:
Please only submit information that directly increases one of the needs listed above.
Please only submit information that you, or your team, have discovered in your own observation.
Please submit only words and images that you, or your team, have created (don't post other people's work).
Please submit only solutions that respect other living things, and that don't kill, or seriously harm, any individual living being.
Please only submit solutions that actually work. :-)
Submissions that don't meet these standards but that seem to be submitted with good intentions will be openly discussed in the public forum with the goal of helping to make them better.
I also want to have a links section for sending people to when they are interested in other forms of communication, and other similarly positive and creative topics.
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Turil, I'm with you now. The comparison of the Wiki to a school is what threw me a little. However, even with that said, the concern is actually even greater now. Wikipedia actually runs into this as well, but they have solved it in a few different ways.
The problem I'm talking about is false, misleading, and/or political content. So for instance you could have people with alterior motives making articles about the wonders of oil (silly example but want to get my point across). Or how dangerous vaccination is (happening right now in the U.S even).
Wikepedia has 2 things working for it.
1. A HUGE user base to help edit/correct/flag content
2. Some kind of approval/trusted source type of system where you can tell who is posting.
I love the internet and user created content, but people are now realizing that there need to be checks and balances put into place in order for it to be truly valuable, because otherwise the false information can be more detrimental than the good information you find because you don't know which one to believe.
Anyways, I like the idea, but I'm wondering if you can make it more interactive. Perhaps hitting up Ninmah for some ideas, or checking out some of her blogs might give you some ideas. She does research on Emerging Technologies for use in education.
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One of the great things about websites is that the more popular something becomes, the more people who show up willing to volunteer their time to make it better. :-) So for starters, the Human Powered School might be small enough for me and one or two others to mediate and moderate, later on, as it becomes more popular, we'll be happy to welcome those volunteers as new moderators and mediators so that the content of the site stays within those standards.
As for bringing people into the project, I'm happy to have more! Once I settle on a name and grab the domain, I'll need lots of help. Until then I mostly only need help with the name, tweaking the proposal, and maybe offering website hosting (though I think I've already got someone willing to do that, and might have another one, who I'm going to talk to this coming week, once I decide on a name). I'll make a huge announcement when the site is ready for content so that people with ideas and connections can jump right in and contribute. :-)
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