Plato ’ s Cave to Unite Americans
That proprietary work , until now labeled with the phrase “ All Rights Reserved ,” is placed in the public domain encouraging motivated learners to use it , modify it and share it with their contemporaries so that each of them may improve her or his quality of life , empowerment , and the functioning of a democratic society . It is provided using software that facilitates participation in chat rooms for the ACE site and hyperlinks within the ACE site that can retrace steps as well as moving forward on paths selected by the users . That same software should be readily available to motivated learners so that they can create or adapt their own website to build a network through which they can share their thinking based upon what they are learning . It makes it easier if the same server provider is readily available to the motivated learner .
Continuing with the primary concept that the mind becomes an extension of the body , we have from Case ( 2016 ), The Third Wave : An Entrepreneur ’ s Vision of the Future . The author stresses content , context , and community as critical elements in the “ reinvention of education ” [ pp . 51 – 52 ]. The strategy for education innovation used in this enterprise is based on individuals developing their sense of place in community realizing the importance of balance in individual and community interests . This is further explicated in The Hybrid Project : Innovative Use of Software for Learning Through the Lens of Complexity Science , which is also linked on the ACE site . That site mentions Ridley ’ s ( 2015 ) The Evolution of Everything : How New Ideas Emerge . Ridley ’ s chapter on the evolution of education closes his opening paragraph with “ What would education look like if allowed to evolve .” Allowing education to evolve is another of the concepts being blended in the development of the strategy . It is a shift from mainline structure of the hierarchical approach of selecting bodies of knowledge to be transmitted and using the classroom structure for transmission to a new mainline structure of taking post-secondary learners on a counterpart to a tour of a museum to a docent led tour of literature as a follow-on to discussion of some societal concerns starting with the individual ’ s sense of place . The learner is free to select various paths beyond the traditional college structure of a major and a variety of electives with the bodies of knowledge structured as silos of disciplines , a categorization of disciplines similar to a categorization of denominations as in religions .
This new mainline is highly interdisciplinary . It integrates disciplines that have used linear models for analytics to understand likely outcomes , but they are only building blocks for patterns of choices by agents ( individuals and organizations ) in complex adaptive systems . This is not intended to supplant formal higher education ; it is an innovative approach to what in higher education has been referred to as a liberal education and / or teaching people to think . The difference is that in the old mainline models curriculum is not prescribed in a hierarchical fashion , but rather emerges by the individual selecting in pursuit of knowledge .
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The Academy in the Cloud Enterprise
( ACE ) is predicated on the participation of motivated learners , as a strategy to disseminate knowledge and thereby enlightening those trapped in the ignorance of Plato ’ s Cave . It is through motivated people and people that care about strengthening democracy that innovations in education can be developed and disseminated . The innovation , currently under development , is an integration of multiple concepts , disci-
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