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+== Design Principles ==
+The Principles guiding our work:
+* '''Learning to make by making. Less yak, more hack.'''
+** Built around tools and making exercises that 'help teach'
+** Learning is a byproduct of making
+* '''Hacking on things they care about at the core.'''
+** Support/encourage interest-based learning
+** Have meaningful, authentic making (vs. arbitrary tasks or overly sandboxed environments)
+** i.e. For StoryThing for journalists, we have them build out their stories online and in the process, learn HTML, CSS, etc.
+* '''More pathways == better. Avoid, and even fight, one prescribed way to learn.'''
+** Leverage existing content and pathways, don't reinvent the wheel where we don't have to.
+** Balance self-driven options, authority/faciliated options, peer options (Ultimately: choose your own adventure approach!)
+** Offer multimedia options where possible (online, offline, synchronous, asynchronous, etc.)
+** Support various levels / entry points (age, skill level, learning types, etc), embrace role fluidity
+* '''Support / encourage the social aspect.'''
+** Encourage social interaction, peer learning and sharing
+** Leverage peer assessments and mentorship +1
+* '''Build in fun / play.'''
+** Explicit fun in cases where it makes sense, but also implicit fun (interest based learning)
+** Promote / support interest-driven learning
+** Capitalize on intrinsic motivations already existing
+* '''Embed assessments in the learning and learning in the assessments.'''
+** Be innovative about assessment - honor the nature of the learning experience / making
+** Authentic and relevant assessments built into the learning experience
+** People should be able to learn more through taking the assessment as well as assessing other people's work
+* '''Support graceful degradation - Fail well'''
+** Help users when they get stuck. -- and make it as easy as possible for their friends (or volunteers) to help them out when this happens
+** Build in trial and error as much as possible
+** Congratulate people for failing; congratulate people for trying alternative methods
+* '''Build in recognition.'''
+** Legitimize this learning - make it count beyond the learning experience
+** Build badges into our learning experiences
+* '''Design for extensibility / scale beyond ourselves.'''
+** Make it easy to run events around learning content - event kit + plug and play content
+** Modularity
+** Mentorship and teach the teachers, nurture a community that can run itself
+* '''Reveal the universe.'''
+** Show people everything there is to learn and how - let them see where they fit into it and where they can go.
+* '''Produce consumer grade web experiences and software.'''
+** High quality, authentic experiences
 == Roadmap ==