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The Houston Young Professionals' latest article talks about LRNGO and how you may not have to go too far to find an expert in anything you need. Try it: type in a subject you want to learn along with your location, and see if he/she is living down the street from you. http://www.houstonyoungprofessionals.com/whats-up-houston/houston-the-world-right-here-in-our-back-yard-teach-me-a-new-language-i-will-teach-you-a-new-skill

HOUSTON: THE WORLD RIGHT HERE IN OUR BACK YARD! "Teach me a new Language & I will teach you a new skill"

Edtech can be helpful, but if it replaces human interaction, we're shooting ourselves in the foot. https://creativesystemsthinking.wordpress.com/2017/03/22/education-of-the-spirit/

Education of the Spirit “Prior to 1900 most people believed in the existence of the soul. And looking at forms of education around the world, most were learner-centered apprenticeship models. Youth learned alongside…

Albert Einstein got it right: "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."

Paradigms are Made for Shifting “A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels…" ~Albert Einstein, N.Y. Times, 1946 Over the course of the last hundred years, modern Western scientists...

What if, at any given time, you knew who around you possesses any knowledge or skill you seek, and is willing and able to help you learn? That's the question a couple of college students asked in 1971, and the answer they found is even more relevant today. https://www.lrngo.com/blog/2017/01/14/the-case-for-decentralized-connected-learning-part-2-the-learning-exchange/

The Case for Decentralized Connected Learning (Part 2: The Learning Exchange) | Lrngo Blog In May of 1971, two college students at Northwestern University named Denis Detzel and Robert Lewis who were inspired by Ivan Illich’s book “Deschooling Society” gathered a small group of students and local community members and founded The Lear...

Learning is not a waste of time simply because it didn't come with a badge. https://www.lrngo.com/blog/2017/01/14/the-case-for-decentralized-connected-learning-part-1-teaching-learning-without-regulation/

The Case for Decentralized Connected Learning (Part 1: Teaching & Learning Without Regulation?) | Lrngo Blog Since the future of learning is a hot topic these days (it’s about time), I wanted to write a personal and community development perspective about some of the positive side effects that have been documented by individual adult participants in communities who have c...

"The idea of learning exchange as it pertains to languages between adults has been around for years, and the idea of a time bank barter system for services has been around at least since the early 1800’s.

Yet, most people today don’t think in terms of bartering services, and almost no one thinks in terms of BARTERING KNOWLEDGE other than languages (except on LRNGO of course!). So why is that?..."

http://www.lrngo.com/blog/2013/11/03/the-radical-learning-exchange/

The Radical Learning Exchange So why does the idea seem so heretical to some to create a structure for people to match up and learn from each other? At first, I thought perhaps it was because the idea that one can learn outside of a classroom (ie: the idea that learning takes pl

Around the world collaboration is fueling the fire for rethinking economics and human behavior.

Here is the call to action: Collaborate and Rethink Everything. The worldwide movement starts with you.



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Something Extraordinary Is Happening In The World, But Most People Haven't Noticed Most of us haven't quite realized there is something extraordinary happening. A few months ago, I freed myself from standard-procedure society. I brok...

The world keeps getting smaller! http://www.lrngo.com/blog/2016/05/01/friendships-from-across-the-world/ TalkTalkBnb

Friendships From Across the World While many LRNGO users meet to learn from each other locally in the same city, or even from a neighbor down the street, others choose to make their communit

Exciting new ways now to travel and learn from people. http://www.talktalkbnb.com/en/blog/article/learn-and-earn/99 TalkTalkBnb

Connect and Learn! | TalkTalkBnb As you look to make more new friends around the world who teach languages, and you want to chat with or get to know them before traveling and possibly meeting in their home (or yours), here is another free resource. www.LRNGO.com stands for Learning Referral Network Growth Organization.

Learning Exchange knows no age boundaries. We can all learn from each other. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/millennials-show-the-world-what-they-believe-old-looks-like_us_5706af2be4b05376618918c3

Millennials Show The World What They Believe 'Old' Looks Like Their opinions will change quickly.

http://www.the-open-mind.com/why-people-who-spend-money-on-experiences-instead-of-things-are-much-happier/

Why People Who Spend Money On Experiences Instead Of Things Are Much Happier by lecia bushak Once you graduate college and start the working life, it’s much harder to plan spontaneous trips and adventures and instead blow your paycheck on a nicer apartment, a new car, or retail therapy. While all of these things can be useful in making your life more comfortable, you...