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