We should look beyond sharing just lessons to restructuring education. We should look at ways to change our concept to fit the prolearner. How do we switch from a hierarchy of education to a lowerarchy of education? How do we move from the tabula rasa mode of teaching to the student as a reservoir mode of teaching? Our role should be to “draw out” of the reservoir of the student’s abilities rather than “implant” on a blank slate. Realize that we as educators are not simply transmitting information to receivers. Receivers are inactive. We are transmitting to responders that are very active.
Understand that our students, all of us, you and I are NOT ongoing we ARE ongrowing. Ongoing is status quo and cannot exist in nature. Ongrowing is constant change and is nature. We need an IEP (Individual Education Plan) for every student. No two snowflakes are alike.
As teachers we can start changing the education system by doing two things immediately: 1. Assume genius¬—if we assume genius from the beginning we have nothing to lose and everything to gain. 1. Trust the Child—who teaches the child to walk and talk? The child does! If the child can master these two major physical and psychomotor skills without “formal teaching”, the child can master just about anything.
Start changing the system of education by creating the prolearner first than start looking for singular examples of lessons. Lessons are not the answer. We have been looking and collecting good lessons forever. Lessons do not change the system. A good teacher can make a bad lesson work. A bad teacher can destroy a good lesson. Education needs a new mindset not a new lesson plan. And that mindset should begin to look at the ideas in WIKINOMICS on how the teacher can act as a “go for” for drawing out the talents in students and enabling collaboration in students. Students learn to share and there will no longer be such thing as cheating.

California Open Source Textbook Project was started up before 2002, yet here we are in 2010, and they have nothing solid on their site, and a reference to an unfinished single book. South Africa and India have done more, but again these are almost single person efforts, not true wiki joint efforts. It would be interesting if the authors might see what happened, why this effort went flat.