Integrated Learning

What Is It

Learning across many disciplines, viewpoints, mental models, timeframes, and cultures to get a wholistic perspective on a topic, and to provide more complete And speedy learning. This is essentual to the Collaborative Creation of Genius. A community that practices integrated learning may be called an Open Source Genius Network. Open source because Authentic Learning cannot happen unless information is open, ie, first-class and not Second Best.

Key Point

Given the right learning environment, an individual can learn 10x more than in traditional school. Imagine getting 10 PhDs in one's life instead of one. Imagine learning all of technology, not one specialty. Imagine knowing multiple disciplines - for example not just science, but engineering, design, philosophy, history, law, economics, organizational studies, psychology, medicine, computer science, art, and theater. Etc. Would one be more well-rounded, or a renaissance person? Or just an Open Source Ecologist. There are several keys to this environment. It's an experiment, as we don't even know if anyone will like this.

1. Quality - quality of the material must be high. Clear, unobfuscated, logical, essential, perspective, etc. Khan Academy does well at this.
2. Created Digital Environment - such as a specific software distribution (such as OSE Linux), with preloaded software. Zero time waste is materials access. Includes libraries of designs, algorithms.
3. Algorithms - formulas, calculations, algorithms, relevant natural or logical or other laws. These are available in the digital environment.
4. Physical Environment - you have a gym, a practice facility, a working enterprise, a learning lab with prepared modules for building. Somehow a way that uses the body and hands to actually do what you are studying.
5. Multimedia - digital, written, physical (machines, builds, tools, building blocks)
6. Hands-on - you actually do it or build it or otherwise engage directly with what you study
7. Enterprise - it ain't nothin unless it is easy for others to use - as consumer products, or a way to disseminate the thing for one's livelihood. Shirt of this, learning will be incomplete as it remains private.
8. Modular - focusing on Contract-First Design, well-developed modules that are plugged together readily to create new things. Like for ex a tractor construction set, or a set of modules that can be build rapidly in any configuration. Such as a Ziggurat of Solar Cubicles - a city for 100 people that can be built from the Seed Eco-Home modules- rapidly. Such as this tiny 12x16 modules.such a structure is 22 modules each, or 2 hour build with a team of one dozen. Can be disassembled readily.