SlapstickMojo
Chieftain
Forgive me if this is the wrong place to post this, I wasn't really sure where it would fit -- something like forum games if I had seen that.
Years ago, I found a book called "Creative Transformation" by John David Garcia. It's a thick read, and at times strays into a bit of mystical thinking, but the piece I've found myself coming back to for over a decade was his "Lifetime Curriculum", seen here: http://www.see.org/garcia/ethout.htm
The idea was using what was essentially a Tech Tree as a school curriculum:
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"... an educational program that ... enables the child to acquire all the traditional educational information many times faster and more coherently. This is done by teaching the child through a process of rediscovery, where all subjects are taught in the same order and context as the human race learned these things.
Instead of merely regurgitating information, the child is encouraged to use its imagination, and its own creativity, to reinvent the accumulated knowledge of humanity, in the same order and context as humanity invented and discovered this same information.
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The entire program integrates knowledge by having ontogeny recapitulate phylogeny at the psychosocial level. Students learn in an order, context, and manner similar to that in which the human race learned the same material and are given an opportunity to rediscover this knowledge. Everything they learn is always related to everything they know in a meaningful, practical way."
http://www.see.org/garcia/e06.htm
http://see.org/garcia/e-ct-6.htm
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I want to create a series of short animated videos, using a combination of Garcia's curriculum, and the C2C Tech Tree, to illustrate these concepts, using the little character I drew up at the top of this post. My thought was something similar to the limited animation of "Extra Credits" or "Zero Punctuation" (the character is already sliced up for tween animation). One of my ideas was "Sixty Second Civilizations" where each video touched on the basic concept of a tech in around a minute, with the option to either move on to the next tech or expand on the idea with a longer vid.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this idea? My biggest problem is figuring out where to start -- Civ 5 has a prehistoric mod that has techs going back to the KT extinction event, primate cognition, bipedalism... the Garcia curriculum is a little less strict on the timeline (songs and painting at the same time as simple stick tools). Should I just write up a script starting with Nomadic Lifestyle and go from there? Would anyone want to help out, mainly editing/reviewing the scripts?
Another option would be just to turn this into an interactive forum comic here, similar to MSPaintAdventures or Homestuck, where I add suggested elements to the scene and see how the character will interact with -- limited to only natural resources and accumulated knowledge.
Sorry if this was a bit long -- a decade worth of ideas trying to get out into writing!
Years ago, I found a book called "Creative Transformation" by John David Garcia. It's a thick read, and at times strays into a bit of mystical thinking, but the piece I've found myself coming back to for over a decade was his "Lifetime Curriculum", seen here: http://www.see.org/garcia/ethout.htm
The idea was using what was essentially a Tech Tree as a school curriculum:
-----
"... an educational program that ... enables the child to acquire all the traditional educational information many times faster and more coherently. This is done by teaching the child through a process of rediscovery, where all subjects are taught in the same order and context as the human race learned these things.
Instead of merely regurgitating information, the child is encouraged to use its imagination, and its own creativity, to reinvent the accumulated knowledge of humanity, in the same order and context as humanity invented and discovered this same information.
...
The entire program integrates knowledge by having ontogeny recapitulate phylogeny at the psychosocial level. Students learn in an order, context, and manner similar to that in which the human race learned the same material and are given an opportunity to rediscover this knowledge. Everything they learn is always related to everything they know in a meaningful, practical way."
http://www.see.org/garcia/e06.htm
http://see.org/garcia/e-ct-6.htm
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I want to create a series of short animated videos, using a combination of Garcia's curriculum, and the C2C Tech Tree, to illustrate these concepts, using the little character I drew up at the top of this post. My thought was something similar to the limited animation of "Extra Credits" or "Zero Punctuation" (the character is already sliced up for tween animation). One of my ideas was "Sixty Second Civilizations" where each video touched on the basic concept of a tech in around a minute, with the option to either move on to the next tech or expand on the idea with a longer vid.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this idea? My biggest problem is figuring out where to start -- Civ 5 has a prehistoric mod that has techs going back to the KT extinction event, primate cognition, bipedalism... the Garcia curriculum is a little less strict on the timeline (songs and painting at the same time as simple stick tools). Should I just write up a script starting with Nomadic Lifestyle and go from there? Would anyone want to help out, mainly editing/reviewing the scripts?
Another option would be just to turn this into an interactive forum comic here, similar to MSPaintAdventures or Homestuck, where I add suggested elements to the scene and see how the character will interact with -- limited to only natural resources and accumulated knowledge.
Sorry if this was a bit long -- a decade worth of ideas trying to get out into writing!
