Connections: Investigating Reality - A Course of Study

Connections: Investigating Reality is a free course of study designed primarily for adolescents and older students, working in small, cooperative groups. It's downloadable from this page. The program's overarching aim is expanding learner ability to "make sense" of reality, an aim we consider essential to the achievement of all other legitimate aims of a general education. The activities in Connections rely heavily on ordinary, first-hand user experience, require the use of all thought processes, progress slowly through increasing levels of conceptual (as distinct from textual) complexity, and, as is true in all attempts to make sense of experience, move constantly across and beyond arbitrary disciplinary boundaries. Its final "product" is meant to be a comprehensive, seamless, systemically integrated, permanent, "master mental model of reality"--a kind of template which, superimposed on real-world experience, routinely translates information into knowledge, and knowledge into wisdom. Note: This, "bottom up" approach to curriculum reform is obviously an unusual undertaking, one that can profit from extensive, on-going dialog. If you like what you see and decide to use it, your participation in an interactive, supportive, on-line community to explore improvements, discuss learner reactions, and offer additional or alternative activities, is invited. To facilitate dialog, the column on the right on this page provides links to pages for general discussion of the program, and for discussion of individual activities.

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