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Seven Free Ways to Use Project Worldview to aid your education:
"Home schooling is growing faster than ever" begins an article in The Economist. For home schoolers out there who either stumble upon or seek out the Project Worldview website, we offer the following (appropriate for ages 14 and up):
1) The Choices We Make card deck
and booklet lends itself to all sorts of educational
and fun activity
click
here for more information about the playing cards (note this is
version 5.0 worldview theme version
based)
note also the related Choices We Make booklet is a great way to systematically pursue worldview development
2) Concerned About Climate Change? click here
3) Here's a suggested exploration for those learning about worldviews...
If you desire a greater understanding of what is meant by a worldview and associated terminology, concepts, issues, etc., we suggest that you spend some time on our Worldviews--An Introduction web page (click here). Note you can take self-tests provided to check your understanding.
4) Here's a short (one or two class session) exercise for you to incorporate into your home schooling curriculum
instructions: Go to The Reality Marketplace page that lists all 80 (version 2.0) worldview themes on 52 web pages by clicking here. Then proceed as follows via a multi-step procedure: a) Choose a worldview theme by clicking on the named page of your choice.
b) Read about the theme as described at the top of its web page.
c) click on and read the related "Discussion from The Worldview Literacy Book" and the "Related Words, Beliefs, Background" as needed.
d) Likewise click on and read as your interest dictates any related Wikipedia or online encyclopedia entries or--to get at the feelings behind the theme--click on and explore the songs from The Worldview Theme Song Book for that theme
e) check your understanding by taking the self-test (clicking on the link provided.)
f) go back to the worldview theme's web page and find the "More to Explore" links Spend the rest of time exploring these links.
g) As you finish, if you are older and have some life experience, you can click to test the compatibility of this theme with your worldview.
Followup Assignment: write a short (one page or two) report on what you learned. Include comments on the role the particular worldview theme you selected plays in your overall worldview. Be sure to mention any web page (or pages) you visited in the course of your exploration that you especially valued.
Attention:
The (version 2.0 and 3.0) web pages you'll access in the above exercise will be
a bit dated.
You might prefer to instead use our latest (version 5.0) web pages:
the course below employs them.
You can pick out selected themes from it for
short exercises, or systematically proceed through all of them if you choose to
take the whole course.
5)
Should you desire
a few weeks or semester-long addition to your home schooling curriculum,
our basic
Global Education course is freely available online.
6) Taking the above course is a great way to prepare for college--and it offers SAT prep
6) Check out our great new Choices We Make--Not So Trivial Pursuit educational game
More to Explore...we have provided links below to additional online resources to aid your self-directed learning:
More to Explore --Resources for Self Directed Learning |
Project Worldview's Introduction to Worldviews |
Khan Academy (offers over 2700 free videos on all topics, emphasis on math & science) |
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading (videos / "Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world") |
Free Online Courses and Education (Education Portal website) |
Online College Classes (website with links to free classes, textbooks, ebooks, etc. ) |
Academic Earth ("thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars") |
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"As you shop in "The Reality Marketplace" avoid
spending your "reality cash" too early, before you have
seen
everything. "
from Coming of Age in the Global Village,
by
Stephen P. Cook, with Donella H. Meadows.