Gatekeepers of Reality: Crafting the Living Algorithm in the Montessori Age — Resources and References, MECR Montessori in the Mountains, Estes Park, September 27, 2026

The resources and references handout from Gatekeepers of Reality, a 150-minute hands-on session presented at Montessori in the Mountains, the Montessori Education Center of the Rockies conference, Estes Park, Colorado, September 27, 2026. The document gathers every resource named in the session for participants' own use back at school with staff, parents, and stakeholders: the session slide deck, the six AI Competency Class Posters, the thirty-two Table Tents for Group Work, A Cosmic Story: The Coming of Technology in Teacher and Read Aloud editions, the Innovation Lab materials created by the educators of the Innovation Fellowship Think Tank, the free full text of Dr. Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method (1912), the interactive mapping dashboard, and The Montessori Rights of the Child, together with the work of supporting creators in creative technology, tangible computing, and screen-minimal digital literacy, acknowledgments, and a full reference list spanning Knuth, the 1912 and 1949 Montessori texts, Nicholson's theory of loose parts, and the McKinsey, UNESCO, and World Economic Forum reports underlying the competency mapping. The session's materials were generously sponsored by Nienhuis Montessori and Maitri Learning. This document was prepared with AI assistance for source verification, formatting, and drafting support, under the author's direction; all content, claims, and judgments are the author's own. Version 1.1 adds the three printed session cards: the algorithm definition after Knuth and the two quotations from Dr. Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method (1912), as displayed in the session.