The Organization & Planning of My Self-Learning Project
In the spirit of making my project official, I feel the need to outline my posting structure. I've always had a thing for #organization and #planning so it is only natural that I write at least one blog entry (for other self-learning students) about how I plan to do the actual work. This is an extremely important step because I want others to learn from my strengths and weaknesses as a researcher and to use my insights in their own education.
This Saturday, I plan to post my first major blog entry. This post has (for the most part) already been written. I will be shifting my research a bit from writing and publishing one large manuscript years down the road to publishing articles on #Steemit a little bit at a time. There are several reasons for this. First, as I've previously mentioned, the process itself is critical. I want to engage other potential self-learners by allowing them to witness my successes and failures in real time. Second, I have a huge problem with #procrastination (who doesn't?), so writing a little bit at a time and getting that instant feedback will really encourage me to continue writing. Finally, the world has been changing so rapidly in so many different fields that what I write now might not even be relevant by the time I'm ready to publish such a large manuscript.
In between major Saturday postings, I may write other entries that aren't directly related to the decentralization of education and self-learning. This one, for instance, is specifically about the pre-planning of the project. I'm particularly good at organization and as I sit here sorting through my notebooks, binders, and massive amounts of reading material, I'm realizing that I'm perfectly suited for this project!
With that in mind, let me talk a little bit about what I'll be posting on Saturday. I've already written a comprehensive introduction to the large nonfiction work I intended to publish all at once. The introduction discusses the value set I believe an ideal future society should adopt. An important thing to note here is that I encourage open discussion of these ideas simply because what survives criticism could potentially be implemented. Forcing ideologies on anyone never works out and actually sets a society back.
After this Saturday's post, I will continue writing a series of essays on a weekly basis that follows an outline based on what I call "The Categories of Human Knowledge." This is a list I wrote back in 2004 that contains (what I consider to be) everything I need to learn in order to gain a strong understanding of how the world works, past & present. The range of topics involved are vast, so I will focus my essays specifically on the impact the subjects will have on future generations. History will also be discussed at length, because we absolutely need to learn from history to prepare for the future.
Every time I start a new topic, I will post a reading list containing where I get a majority of my information. I encourage self-learners to investigate these texts and read along if they choose; however, I will not make it impossible to learn the subject material if they can't or won't purchase the texts. I'll obviously also get some source material online and will post links to articles I find particularly interesting.
Happy learning!
Yours truly,
Katie