Preamble
Reason
Today's schools are mostly designed around centrally controlled administrative structures, so that learning activities are rigidly formatted to fit the convenience of administrators and teachers. Learners must always beg permissions from a central power system to determine what can and cannot be learned is by definition a less ideal learning organization. In most cases, administrative structures are controlled by a small number of people, who may not be the only rational source of operational adjustment. This structure, especially the structure of a centrally planned learning system creates the opportunity for teachers and administrators to abuse their administrative powers. This constitution is designed as a generic template for all learners to inform themselves of their basic rights, and also formally state the basis of their decision making processes in a learning process. The detailed constitutional framework would in operational terms describe the procedures and social transaction events that defines how learners might be able to exercise their rights or alter the format or sequence of certain learning processes. We try to incorporate or follow scientifically proven ideas about learning, or learnability from a data-driven or evidence driven viewpoint, so that the entire learning structure itself can be managed as a subject of learning. Most importantly, this constitution is designed to evolve overtime, so that itself will become an object to be transformed by righteous learners at their will. In other words we want all learners become aware of the three main opportunities in learning:
- Learning from Direct Evidence 数据择优律
- Learning in an Evolving and Dynamic Context 成长率
- Leanring from the widest possible re-combinatorial facts 组合律
So that all learners must have access rights, and the skills to directly manage their learning process data and learning content data, they also must design their learning activities around a dynamically evolving learning target, so that what they learned would be compatible with the real evolving world, finally, they must be leveraging existing resources and technological protocols that can be recombined to produce new adoptive uses that may not be originally intended to perform certain tasks. These basic laws of collective learning must be enforced in the organizational structure and constitutional believes of the organizations, that is why we must write a constitution for all learners.
Purpose
Toyhouse aims at being an idealized and replicable organization structure of learners. In contrast, today's schools are less ideal, the teachers or school administrations do not have a flexible decision making structure to adjust learning activities according to the needs of learners. With Inter-networked technologies, it becomes possible to offer an alternative organizational approach to design and conduct learning acivities. Any curriculum plans should inform all learners have the rights to leverage available natural resources in a respective and conservative manner. They should also have access and knowledge to utilize openly shared technologies and intellectual content to enrich their lives. This is the purpose of education on both natural and social level. This is the first right of learners,
0. The right to utilize natural resources and publicly shared intellectual properties
To ensure that learning organizations can self-adapt to their respective operational environment, we will help learners to exercise their three other basic rights.
- Learners shall have rights to resolve conflicts
- Learners shall have rights to expense their own financial resources
- Learners shall have rights to express their own opinions publicly.
These basic rights are to be protected by the operational means of the learning organizations to be designed by our participants. These organizations can be schools, hackerspaces, makerspaces or any organizations or enterprises, even governments that wants to involve all participants to contribute their efforts in modifying the world. We believe that by honoring these basic rights, and providing an operational framework to register the interactive experience of a crowd practicing these rights, we may accumulate a collective wisdom to best leverage the learning potential of these distributive agents that have both collective wills and individual rights.
Reference
- How to write a constitution by WikiHow
