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1. Imagine if EVERY school-age child
had a Wiki Space... Imagine the power!
How to:
"Leave No Child Behind" FOR REAL
by enabling the kids to change the world!

2. Imagine...
... if every student had a personal Confluence Wiki space to
do their work from Grade 1 >> highschool, in their Wiki
space...
... growing and evolving, showing progression -- sometimes
pushing beyond their grade levels
... skies no-limit progression often; over time, 8+ years of
DATA and knowledge collected
Imagine if EVERY school-age child had a Wiki Space... Imagine the power!

3. Imagine...
... if ALL students were so excited about their Wiki space,
they continually worked on it while not in the classroom --
highly engaged, creating content, making diagrams, flushing
ideas, blogging thoughts (private or not), continually
improving, creating in-school communities
... if students' curiosities were spurred endlessly, becoming
insightful in knowledge collected, and inspired in knowledge
shared
Imagine if EVERY school-age child had a Wiki Space... Imagine the power!

4. Imagine...
... if students learned first-hand about collaboration and
mutual human respect, with honesty and trusted ways,
endlessly -- through continual share of knowledge,
information and good style mentoring by teachers
... if students learned about what is good, bad, appropriate,
and not appropriate early on in their life, in groom for later
on when they really need it
... if shy kids learned how to come out of their shells, and
turn their shy into incredible creative genius' online
Imagine if EVERY school-age child had a Wiki Space... Imagine the power!

5. Imagine...
... if self-esteem and confidence that is so easily shattered
on the playground gained ground online, as students grew
confidence in their writing, creating, visibility
... if students learned the benefits (vs. fear) of iterative
development
... if students learned the benefits of transparency and
open collaboration, about working through challenges or
differences of opinion to learn more vs. avoiding with fear
Imagine if EVERY school-age child had a Wiki Space... Imagine the power!

6. Imagine...
... if teachers created all school curriculums in the
Wiki -- openly shared, comments and ideas welcome by
the school, students, etc.
... if teachers' courses were continually improved, grown,
evolved, over the years -- staying current, and exportable
to Word or PDF, on the fly
... if teachers grew and learned from students as
"partnerships" evolved, as well as lifelong lessons on the
value of collaborative partnerships
Imagine if EVERY school-age child had a Wiki Space... Imagine the power!

7. Imagine...
... if teaching became a highly respected and valued
profession again in the USA, like it should be (and is still in
most other countries)
... if teachers became excited and engaged to do great
teaching through showing their good prowess on the Wiki,
openly -- for students, parents, and administrators vs.
mostly behind school doors
... if the teacher/student paradigm changed from
"babysitting" unruly kids (in many schools) to respected
mutual beneficial relationships
Imagine if EVERY school-age child had a Wiki Space... Imagine the power!

8. Imagine...
... if students failing in reading and writing learned to read
and write better because they were constantly doing it and
inspired to do it, daily, continually
... if unmotivated students evolved from loser/slouch
students to engaged/promising students because they
belonged to creative, supportive, inspiring online
communities within the Wiki
... if students with a troubled home life found an excellent
saving outlet and encouragement on the Wiki, daily
Imagine if EVERY school-age child had a Wiki Space... Imagine the power!

9. Imagine...
... if students learned two to three times (or more) what
they learn now because online collaboration and content
creation speeds progress greatly, through inspired
engagement, especially for still-innocent teacher-guided
school-age children
... the developed relations built through supportive
collaborative Wiki environments at school, and the value of
those relations later in life
Imagine if EVERY school-age child had a Wiki Space... Imagine the power!

10. Imagine...
... if students blogged daily in their Wiki space so schools
could:
find "troubled" students sooner, to proactively help
find amazing students sooner, to properly encourage
... if students become better writers, and good values
better people, because of daily writing, reading,
communications, and introspections
Imagine if EVERY school-age child had a Wiki Space... Imagine the power!

11. Imagine...
... if students were able to easily publish "jewels" on a
web-shared, yet school-controlled CMS, direct from the
Wiki (for example, Alfresco CMS, open source doc mgmt
system)
... the online grade-school "resumes" via online google
searches, further encouraging the students, and teaching
responsible Internet approaches
... if some of the students became respected authors,
poets, and scientists by age 10!
Imagine if EVERY school-age child had a Wiki Space... Imagine the power!

12. Imagine...
... if the too-many-questions challenging students had an
outlet for their energies vs. becoming the "bad kid" in the
eyes of the teacher (trivialized vs. encouraged to grow)
... if ADD or hyper-active students had a place of focus for
their relentless questions, energy, and research -- and as a
better learning alternative to medications (e.g., ritilin)
... if dyslexic kids were not teased or embarrassed for
mixing up letters/words, because they could fix it first!
Imagine if EVERY school-age child had a Wiki Space... Imagine the power!

13. Imagine...
... if students that year on year fail the state exams and
become labeled as "dumb kids", and fail again, all of a
sudden beat their challenges and pass, with developed self-
esteem fostering their learning
... if all students learn to type -- a necessary skill for today
and tomorrow's world, for just about any job
... learning beyond book teaching -- through doing it,
exploring, researching, collecting, innovating -- endlessly
building out the Wiki
Imagine if EVERY school-age child had a Wiki Space... Imagine the power!

14. Imagine...
... if the "computer whiz" students were not just the
privileged ones with parents in the technology fields
... if all students had a chance to gain good mastery of
computers and technology -- at least at a basic level
... if students learned about open-source inventing early
on, and some became inventors while in grade school!
Imagine if EVERY school-age child had a Wiki Space... Imagine the power!

15. Imagine...
... if every school in every school district in every city,
town, or suburb had its own Wiki system, hosted securely
in "the cloud"... with ready administration expertise:
to be able to proactively address maintenance
to allow for local controls and system management
to keep information local and confidential to each
school
to enable this entire "imagine" to be REALITY, very
quickly
Imagine if EVERY school-age child had a Wiki Space... Imagine the power!

16. Imagine...
... the poster-child school district of success, proving
these theories, with improved education for its students
that could be tangibly measured likely within the first
semester
... the viral effect to other school districts of the nation
... the great human and intellectual value that would grow
from this for the best of everyone involved. Everyone.
Imagine if EVERY school-age child had a Wiki Space... Imagine the power!

17. Imagine...
... the great students, teachers, administrators, schools,
corporations and nation that inherit and benefit from
these school children one day
... teaching kids collaboration and knowledge sharing via
the power of a Wiki - for life, and for the Universe
... the changed world as a result, for generations beyond
Imagine the MANY other great things not on this list!
Imagine if EVERY school-age child had a Wiki Space... Imagine the power!

18. Interested in proving this?
There is not a shadow of a doubt on the success of these
ideas with proper support (district/school level), and
relatively low cost/fast roll-out time to implement.
The return on education advancement, human and societal
growth, innovative progress, and much more is limitless --
short and long term.
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Imagine if EVERY school-age child had a Wiki Space... Imagine the power!