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 is a aimed at being an idealized and replicable organization structure of learners. The reason for going to any school, is to learn from others, where every participants benefit from the subscribed learning activities. However, 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. We believe that all learners have the rights to leverage available natural resources and openly shared technologies and intellectual content to enrich their lives. They should also be informed of their conflict resolution channels when they engage with any sociable learning activities that might create conflicts in the process. Learners should also be allowed to spend their own financial resources to acquire knowledge, services, or instrumentation that enable them to better learn the desirable subject. Finally, learners should be able to voice their concerns by expressing their opinions in public at will. These basic rights must be honored and become an operating principle to enable not only individual learners, but also organizations composed of these learners to become aware of learning opportunities, and absorb new knowledge from the interactive dynamics of the society.
Reference
- How to write a constitution by WikiHow
