Creating a Free Learner Movement-Phase I

Number of positions available: 3 teams of 2-3 persons The UnschoolingSchool.com team is working with Riipen students across Canada to synthesize the many sources of proof and evidence that Self-Directed Education (SDE) works and is an optimal way to educate children. For more information about the overall scope of our amazing project click on the Resources Section. ​ Free Learner (FL) is a new designation that applies to students who wish to take responsibility for their time and learning path. The FL label is self-assigned by students and their families, rather than by experts, to announce that they require and deserve approaches to learning that work best for them. The FL label indicates to the school that the student will operate under an alternate set of parameters, expectations, and responsibilities and, as such, require accommodation in the class and school. See https://www.unschoolingschool.com/free-learner.html This project is Phase I of, Creating a National Free Learner Movement: empowering K-12 students to stand up to the coercive education system and take charge of their life at school. 1. Planning the movement: - Researching 'how to create a movement' - Development of a comprehensive plan (ie what is needed to make it happen--social media, partnerships, spokes people) 2. Website creation and promotion - FreeLearner.ca (development of a youth-led free-standing site, backed up by UnschoolingSchool.com) 3. Social media - content creation and promotion Possible sources: 1. UnschoolingSchool.com site and Embracing the Innate Philosophy of Learning.doc (in Resources section) 2. Completed reports from our other Riipen projects (in Resources section) Possible approach: - research and brainstorm ways to create a movement - design methodology and phases - develop FreeLearner.ca website and related social media platforms and messaging plan - connect with teams on the Riipen Student Survey project and Grown Canadian Self-Directed Learners project We are looking for 3 teams of 2-4 people working together--one team on movement development outreach and partnership; a second team on website development; and a third team on social media content development. The three teams will need to work synergistically to support each other and create the movement. Deliverable is a function website, integrated social media (Tic Toc, Insta, YouTube, Twitter, FB etc.) and comprehensive plan outlining the next 3-4 phases of the movement (details to be discussed prior to the start of the project) “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” – Khalil Gibran

Review, Refine & Summarize Content for a Virtual Summit on the Housing Crisis

This is a flexible project for a team of up to 12 students that can be from 5 to 30 hours per week. The work is quite independent, so the team is largely a group of students doing similar things in parallel. The Housing Solution Summit is a cutting-edge Virtual Summit with over 80 sessions on ways to address the many facets of the housing crisis. Most of the sessions are pre-recorded, often with videos that blend content from past webinars, prior virtual summits, Q&A sessions and their existing video content. Sessions range from about 20 minutes to 59 minutes long and are on Vimeo as private videos. The content is very interesting if you care about housing, poverty, justice, economics, and such. It helps to generate hope because it focuses on solutions. Students would pick a cluster of sessions on a similar topic and do the following Create a high-level outline of the presentation with time-stamps on the different sections. (For internal use) Make notes, with time stamps of any recommended editing (e.g. a reference to President Trump or the "upcoming election" might be good to edit out, since that would make the presentation seem old. Also identify any promotion of events (such as the November 2020 summit) that should be edited out (with time stamps). Do simple video editing (zoom, pan, delete out the "umm" and "Can you hear me OK now?" content that is not valuable. Also, making suggestions on low-value segments that might be cut out or high-value parts of the Q&A that might be merged into a presentation. Help create a description (or suggest refinements to the current description or title) Find short clips that can be used for social media Create a 2-page summary of the talk for people who are interested in the topic but too busy to listen to the session. We're planning on migrating much of this content from the Housing Solution Summit into a big, flexible eLearning platform so people can easily access the information they need in the months and years after this event. This work will help prepare for that. We have a computer-generated transcript for each session. If time allows, those can be cleaned up, adding a few PowerPoint slide images, to be an added resource for participants. Once the project is over, there may be contract opportunities to continue to work on this type of content.