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Smart Localism: A Trend of Platforms for Resilience

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Smart Localism
Smart networking, data transparency, and bottom-up monitoring enable responsive, open decision-making. New local monitoring tools, information sharing platforms, and networking practices support smart intra-community coordination. Camera phones, wikis, meet-ups, map mash-ups—all are enabling new strategies for dealing with complex challenges that play out at local levels.

Ways to Start Taking Action
  1. Use data-driven decision-making to assess student learning as well as the effectiveness of learning agents in supporting them
  2. Form a group in your community to respond to the challenges of Peak Oil and Climate Change through Transition Towns
  3. Learn about how the Dangerous Ground project tracks landmines
  4. Read this blog post on a four hour workweek and outsource your personal chores
  5. Start a Groupery site for your local PTA, after-school club, or other group to get organized and raise money

Jessica Margolin, Director of Communities at The Groupery, speaks about efficient ways PTA's and other communities can organize and fundraise, and the impact these services have on education and getting the for-profit and non-profit sectors to work together.

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Jason said…  August 12, 2009 09:31 PM

Camera phones are a great way to enable strategic learning in high school environments.

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The full citation for the original publication is:  Monica Martinez,INNOVATION: Becoming Green, Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 91, No. 3, November 2009, pp. 74-75.

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