Welcome to one particular real society of our making, an orientation to coding and being coded by societies.

AGENDA

• Arrival with playist
• How are we arriving today
• Code Societies Choir
• Code Societies Orientation (presentation)
• Opening questions
• Who is here with us? Include your name, where you’re based, and a time you have made something happen for yourself or those around you that didn't seem possible before.
  This introduction does not need to be definitive or formal. It can be mundane and gentle. This will be one of many ways we get to know each other.
• BREAK
• Is everyone in the Discord & Channel (class infrastructure)
• Code Societies History (presentation)
• Society Coding is the New World Building (activity)
• Stepping out of the magic circle for the first time together

HOMEWORK

A love letter to a speculative liberatory learning society

Gently plumb the depths of your imagination and think about the following prompt:

Imagine a society that can hold you and those you want to learn with. This society is need not be like any learning environment that exists. It does not have to be realistic or adhere to laws of physics. What kinds of rooms, interconnecting hallways, or gardens could be grown? What kinds of activities would learners do in different spaces within the society? What kinds of subjects would be taught there? What kinds of subjects have you never been taught before? Are their teachers and students or some other set of roles? Do the roles ever change? How is time measured? What small moments of routines do you practice here? What are the bathrooms like? How about the furniture? Are there laboratories? Playgrounds? Napping rooms? Consider the kinds of relationships you would like this space to hold & how people could relate to each other differently based on the proximity and content of their learning? Consider how you would like to share space with others here and how different parts of the space are accessed and by whom? Are there grades? How are people separated into groups if ever? What taxonomies exist for classifying people? Do taxonomies exist? Consider the ephemeral aspects of the school as much as the physical aspects. In this society, how do you communicate and care for each other? What are the emotional qualities of the society? What is the weather like?
Consider the many forms it could take, A memory palace with many rooms. In each room a memory of something that someone learned in this room. A forest of learning gardens where each participant is a flower and insects carry knowledge back and forth between them. A multi-generational interconnected courtyard boarding house with rooms for climbing, rooms for digging, rooms for cooking, rooms for singing. Write, draw, or sketch your response and upload it to the class hw form.

The only restriction is that your response be an image file format like a png or jpg. If it is all text filling the image, that’s great! If it is a drawing, that’s great too! If it is multiple images, with any combination of text and image, this is also good.

For inspiration, these were the DLL 2020 responses to this Speculative Liberatory Learning Environment

Installations

To install Vscode or Sublime, our recommended general purpose text editor:

Mac terminal program:

You can use the default ‘Terminal’ app on Macs or you can download Iterm2 (recommended)

Windows terminal program, Git Bash:

Download Git Bash

ONE PARTICULAR REAL SOCIETY AMONG ALL POSSIBLE