Just updated my page at https://leanpub.com/selfdirectededucationintro with copies of the e-book that include full references, annotated resource lists, and descriptions or web addresses instead of links!
Having just finished the first session on an online seminar series on agile learning with friends from CollectiveUP, I’m thinking back to all the topics I wrote in Update 2 that I wanted to add to the book.
“…there aren’t sections defining “agile learning,” sharing how we move through conflict, or offering frameworks for understanding change and co-design in community. But I notice I keep noting topics I want to explore, beyond those basics. I have an essay I want to add on Data Feminism and critiques of Agile, and how they relate to what I’ve been part of over the last decade in ALC spaces. I have another that reviews Mitch Resnick’s Lifelong Kindergarten and connects the concepts with what we’ve developed at ALC-NYC. It feels useful to add content families have been asking me for recently related to Internal Family Systems, to neurodiversity, to attachment theory. It feels like it could be impactful and inspiring if I spent some time explaining how centers design governance structures for their organizations that align with the values and practices that guide their work with kids. The current book spends almost no time comparing different agile learning and open-space projects”there aren’t sections defining “agile learning,” sharing how we move through conflict, or offering frameworks for understanding change and co-design in community. But I notice I keep noting topics I want to explore, beyond those basics. I have an essay I want to add on Data Feminism and critiques of Agile, and how they relate to what I’ve been part of over the last decade in ALC spaces. I have another that reviews Mitch Resnick’s Lifelong Kindergarten and connects the concepts with what we’ve developed at ALC-NYC. It feels useful to add content families have been asking me for recently related to Internal Family Systems, to neurodiversity, to attachment theory. It feels like it could be impactful and inspiring if I spent some time explaining how centers design governance structures for their organizations that align with the values and practices that guide their work with kids. The current book spends almost no time comparing different agile learning and open-space projects…”
Some of these came up in the seminar session, and some new topics arose that feel rich and inspiring to play with. Between mentoring new facilitators, transitioning the governance of an established school, continuing my reading on technology developments impacting young people, and noticing the changes in family expectations and struggles in our NYC space, I feel pretty clear that I want to publish on these topics soon.
Between doing all the things I’m doing and reviewing the expanded “references and resources” sections at the end of each book chapter after this latest update, I also feel pretty sure that more content should be published elsewhere, to give everything in this current work breathing room.
Maybe readers will give me feedback that I’m wrong, that they really want appendixes more than follow-up texts or blog posts. Looking forward to finding out! In the meantime, save small adjustments to the graphics if I get to feeling create, this work feels pretty complete. Hopefully it’s useful!
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