Adler’s Report on Asian Participation in AERO 2020

Hi everyone!
Thank you all for the great conference!
Ozzie, Tim, and I are all very happy and honored to have had such deep conversations with you all. It’s also our pleasure that many of you asked for our information and would like to keep in touch!
Here we compiled a list of resources and information if you’d like to know more about what we talked about: Za Share

• Here’s Ozzie and my slides for our keynote: https://www.academia.edu/43455450/Learn_to_BE_not_Taught_to_FIT_Keynote_at_the_2020_AERO_Conference_?source=swp_share
• See how Za Share communicates learner-centered/humanist concepts creatively! — Previous trailers of the ZA Share EXPO (Click the hyperlinks to get a sense of the contexts behind the videos):
  • The Future in my School Bag I (2015) https://youtu.be/NXN-tFHkNw0
  • The Future in my School Bag II (2016) https://youtu.be/YAaRHqrZ5Jc
  • Every Child is a Lotus Prince (2016) https://youtu.be/klO2W2c2Ieo
  • Test Subject: Did I choose the right answer for my life? (2017) https://youtu.be/gCVu4Wr0xMo
  • What’s happening at the ZA Share EXPO? (2017) https://youtu.be/Pt9lfeJH6Pc
  • The Coolest social school on earth (2018)  https://youtu.be/lFVlEGZIY3M
  • Noise, Sanga, Mixed-Noodles (2019) https://youtu.be/xloM3CbIW28
  • Johnny(Confucius)’s Life Drag Show (2019) https://youtu.be/u41-dWaZ0R4
• English press coverages:
  • A Sneak Peek at the Za Share EXPO
    http://blog.halal.tw/2017/10/25/a-sneak-peek-at-the-za-share-expo/
    
  • ZA SHARE – Taiwan’s International Education Expo
    http://54.95.91.28/en/activity/kwn/staff/20191220/?fbclid=IwAR2MHs3EY7jjP7fPncbV5dGQlkOpLp-RQL01rRB15aS2TgcBHlFJ_35YWAg
    
• Za Share’s profile at the Golden Pin Award Winners’ Archives
  • http://www.goldenpin.org.tw/en/project/za-share-expo-for-innovative-education-2016/

Adler’s documentary: If There is a Reason to Study

• Official Website:
  http://reasontostudyfilm.weebly.com/english.html
  
• Lessons to learn from 96% college acceptance rate: Documentary by 20-year-old Taiwanese filmmaker examining test-driven education premiering in NYC
  http://reasontostudyfilm.weebly.com/lessons-to-learn-from-96-college-acceptance-rate
  
• Wikipedia:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_There_Is_a_Reason_to_Study
  
• Trailer:
  https://youtu.be/tn4Owtz9ZWA
  
• Full documentary on: 
  • Amazon
    https://www.amazon.com/There-Reason-Study-Adler-Yang/dp/B07DVPPLWX
  • Alexander Street (ProQuest Academic Database)
    https://search.alexanderstreet.com/preview/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C4022963
    
  • Vimeo On Demand
    https://vimeo.com/ondemand/ifthereisareasontostudy

World crises perpetuated by education systems & Learning by Contributing

• The Linear Process of Exhaustion: How the Ranking and Tracking System Perpetuates the World Crises and the Loss of Innocence (Working unpublished manuscript, 2018– Looking for feedback!)
  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HfMT4z91VgnNiP0xkg_CmMSgSGBVYuFxdOCyplxpJZ8/edit?usp=sharing
• Beyond good intentions, into our lifestyles (Slides for the keynote at the Asian Network for Youth Social Entrepreneurs in South Korea, 2017)
  https://www.academia.edu/43404866/Beyond_good_intentions_into_our_lifestyles?source=swp_share
  
• Education Bypass Surgery — a Learner-led movement as action research (up to 2013)
  https://youtu.be/EqVNo_Pncas
  
• Awakening’s philosophy: Learning by contributing (2015 version) 
  http://en.awakeningedu.org/learning-by-contributing.html

Experimental Education in Taiwan

• Tim’s slides for the pop-up session “Non-Schooling population 5-folded in 5 years!? — How Taiwan grassroots made “non-schooling” not only legal but also trendy”
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vYK3iBZgFh0begPorf1kd6JdtMnCDzCS/view?usp=drivesdk
  
• Taiwan Experimental Education Center
  https://en.teec.nccu.edu.tw/
  
• Government Policy & Legal documents
  • Enforcement Act for School-based Experimental Education
    https://law.moj.gov.tw/ENG/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?pcode=H0070060
    
  • Enforcement Act for Non-school-based Experimental Education at Senior High School Level or Below
    https://law.moj.gov.tw/ENG/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?pcode=H0070059
    
  •  Act Governing the Commissioning of the Operation of Public Schools at Senior High School Level or Below to the Private Sector for Experimental Education
    https://law.moj.gov.tw/ENG/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?pcode=H0070062
    
  • Curriculum Guidelines of 12-Year Basic Education (Largely shaped by the grassroots’ effort, although the grassroots are already moving on to devise the new version of it)
    https://cirn.moe.edu.tw/Upload/file/32077/83646.pdf
    
• Press coverages
  • Nurturing ‘Seedlings’, the Story of Alternative Education in Taiwan
    https://international.thenewslens.com/article/98118
    
  • How Taiwan’s Experimental Schools Help Students Think for Themselves
    https://international.thenewslens.com/article/109713
    
  • Experimental Education and the Preservation of Taiwan’s Indigenous Culture
    https://ketagalanmedia.com/2020/03/25/experimental-education-and-the-preservation-of-taiwans-indigenous-culture/
    
  • New law widens scope of experimental education
    https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2018/01/21/2003686165
    
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship in an Educational Ecosystem: Cases from Taiwan (Book)
  https://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Entrepreneurship-Educational-Ecosystem-Taiwan-ebook/dp/B083FX7Z8Q

Please keep in touch and let us know if there’s anything we can do together!
Also, don’t forget to join us at ZA Share 2020 later this year!  We’ll send out the invitations when they’re available!
Sincerely, Adler

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— 楊逸帆 / Adler Yang / アドラー・ヨウ Educator / Researcher / Social Architect / Systems Thinker  Studying and actualizing sustainable, healthy, and sincere societies R&D Director for Learning Systems and International Programs, Za Share Taiwan Representative of the Alternative Education Resource Organization Director/Producer, If There is a Reason to Study  Founder, Awakening Lab | 2015 Becoming Aces 30 under 30Certified Blue Belt Systems Thinking, Mapping, and Leadership Trainer

If we want to change the future, change ourselves. Because we are the future.

–Adler Yang