Where this material came from, sources of inspiration and information.
Loomio was one of the platforms featured at the Platform Cooperativism conference in NYC in Nov. 2015. It is designed to help groups make collective decisions. It seems to work for both consensus and voting approaches, but I have not really tested it yet. I will use it in my courses and maybe in other projects.
Shiho Ide did this activity with us in English for Activists. It worked well -- everyone was able to create and share several sentences in a short time. The idea is simple: write sentences of six words. They can be free or in response to a prompt. You can pair up to do a dialogue or debate. You can string several sentences together to make a narrative, poem, or song. You can do an improvised dialogue with every sentence being six words. You can write collaboratively, each person adding a word. You can add other structures, like blues, etc.
The game Loud & Proud is designed to played as a rapid-fire competitive matching game. http://store.toolboxfored.org/loud-proud/
It can also be played:
The card game Buffalo, by Mary Flanagan, is designed to be played as a rapid-fire competition between players. (http://www.tiltfactor.org/game/buffalo/)
It can also be played:
http://marshmallowchallenge.com
Great collaborative activity. Instead of the explicatory spin that Tom Wujec gives it, just ask participants the Jacotot questions: What did you see? What do you think of it? What can you make of it? There is a lot to see, so taking time with the first question (always a good idea) is especially important. I think it would pair well with Broken Squares, the Marshmallow game coming first.
I found this site while looking for a good write-up of the Marshmallow Challenge. I haven't had time to go through the games yet, but will. Seems like some of them could be useful -- like SWOT, which found its way into the Troublemaker's Handbook back in the day.
The classroom is one of the least egalitarian spaces on the planet....
http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/why-start-with-pedagogy-4-good-rea...
Political posters from the Labadie collection at the University of Michigan.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lbc2ic?sort=m_flm;type=allmedia;view=thumbnail
The full text of Jacotot's Enseignement Universel: Langue Maternelle is online here:
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039569127;view=1up;seq=17
