Hello Everyone and CMS in particular
Yes I very much wanted to be in touch - if net generation connectivity loses both pro-youth education/media and pro-youth economics then mydad's life work on net generation being worldwide youth's most productive time www.wholeplanet.tv (search 100 leading investors in practice leaders of this youth future) will be destroyed - ditto any family whose life's work has converged on pro-youth net generation, and joy of cross-cultural world citizenship as pathway to peaceful 21st C
We are inviting educators who are passionate about job-creating and pro-youth education to get together and see the next year or 2 critical in converging on microeducation summit- in developing world this can be framed round post-2015 millennium and green goals, in developed world this is also connected to getting both economics and educators to be pro-youth , jobs focused. Unfortunately in spite of Obama being elected as youth's yes we can president 5 years ago he is stuck in a system which wont let him lead unless massive youth networks do. You would know better than I but i expect the same may be epitaph of Kalam 2020 and Manmohan Singh in spite of latter being one of the greatest end-underclass economists that ever lived having had same tutors in cambridge as dad except he was a few years too late to have direct tutoring by keynes
Its 40 years since father and I first saw 500 youth sharing knowledge around an early digital network and it took us and dads friends of entrepreneurial revolution 10 years to write the first book on investing in the net generations 3 billion new jobs -all needed mobilisation by hi-trust educators to leverage bottom up community sustainability and the power of million times more collaboration technology than when man raced to the moon. The alternative was indeed George Orwell's big brother endgame as well as ecological collapse and so loss of peace in ever more localities. By one estimate USA already spends one seventh of whole gdp trying to control local violence - gun lobby's very non-economical way to run the homeland, violence as nightly news' staple diet and control of society's elder majority by fear, depression, addiction, negative emotions...
There are some gamechangers in education which I believe are the last chance to get back to a world where everything we invest in is pro-youth - aims to help next generation be more productive, sustainable and culturally heroic out of every community
Above all are Massive Open Online Curriculum -see eg articles in The Economist - systemic content of these will become a once off battle between pro-youth educators, versus those whose power depends on making education more expensive or are beholden to governments PR needs in every way that those exclude youth. The MOOC may also be berners lee's last chance to empower web as educationally smart and open in every way that tv-ad mass media dumbed down and broke flows into over-professionalised silos
There are also student competitions being massively celebrated especially where students come up with missing peer to peer practice skills , and there are free university formats - eg nurses who want to give back to society should be trained for free and can be the most valuable grassroots information networkers of 21st C as well as a brilliantly happy way of empowering womens productivity
Sir Fazle Abed who runs over 50000 schools and was WISE first winner of "Oscars of Education" accepts above ideas and will be convening various worldwide collaboration meetings- first one will probably be in dhaka in march.
I also try to connect youth @ MIT (Boston) where berners lee and open technology is designed around extraordinary bottom-up mobilisation of smart stuff
There are I am sure various curriculum that the world needs to see the cms version first - do you at CMS already have a MOOC team? how can we connect your pro-youth practices of education with the handful of institutes that understand this crisis across the entire education value chain primary, secondary, tertiary? To take a specific example financial literacy needs to start with a primary curriculum and then integrate secondary and tertiary. Sir Fazle Abed is already Aflatoun's largest operator- this being a curriculum of financial literacy that started in indian orphanages and is now in 90 countries. It needs to be prominent in MOOC world before someone puts a lot of money into designing a financial literacy curriculum which isnt pro-youth
(Also if as keyned concluded economists compound rule either design or destroy the futures most people need form each market then we need a mooc of pro-youth economics- I am trying to re-link in my father's life work on that at http://economistmooc.blogspot.com/ Unfortunately most of the shareholders of The Economist have forgotten The Economist was founded 170 years ago to mediate an end of hunger and an end of slavemaking empire. However the one rich family who gets this are also champions of microenergy awards http://ashden.org and we hope Mostofa will arrange that family's last safe tour of Bangaledesh's green energy at about the same time that sir fazle abed and dad's Japanese friends host dhaka's first brainstorming on MOOC and microeducationsummit
cheers chris macrae
skype chrismacraedc
washington dc 301 881 1655
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zasheem who is arranging sir fazle abed inputs into MOOC and massive curriculum sharing and uniting nursing networks through adma smithsian glasgow
Bhuiyan (student competitions) and Mark (investors), Monica youth and famous artists peace movements and Naila/Shafqat (open technology) who all have some access to what of yunus and youth knowhow (social action) can be freed to becomes massively open
taddy blecher - free university model s.africa with mandela, branson, google africa
paul australian youth and medics future
ganesh - another gandhian
next discussion of all of above - 18 january - yunus and youth of state of alabama, emerging USA home of the first university of poverty
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