"we need to make the real world more like the virtual world"

women's ways of knowing. the steps of knowledge and knowing

My friend Tyler makes the observation that we think of the U.S. as a more developed country because of our standardized education system. He affirms that the ability and desire to ask questions is a mark of true learning. "Answering multiple choice questions does not show how much one has been learning; learning to ask multiple questions does!" Then he suggests a correlation between being passionate about a subject and the occurrence of true learning.

Very well done video. It makes a point visually and in the words presented. The message fits the media.

Skip over the synopsis of "The Social Network." Great discussion article about how Facebook oversimplifies humanity and can have dangerous effects on how we relate. I highlighted a lot of stuff. I highly encourage you to check it out. Talks in terms of how web2.0 has spawned people2.0. A kind of crazy reality.

Interesting in lieu of Remix: Manifesto. Very much akin to inbflat.net.

Zuckerberg has far reaching vision for the future of the internet, imagining that every aspect will become social in some manner. The internet on mobile devices will make serendipitous moments of "running into" people at random places commonplace because we will be able to use technology to know when we are in the same place as our Facebook friends. Though Zuckerberg and his team do acknowledge how Facebook may cause a shallowing of human relationships, they choose to ignore and look on to the vision of Facebook: a place enabling people to connect in every area of life.

Sir Ken Robinson speaks about how our education system strips students of their creativity. It teaches us to not risk ever being wrong. "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you will not come up with anything original." The hierarchy of educational importance begins with math and science and ends with the arts. The system was born of the Industrial Revolution pragmatically. We're in post-Industrial Revolution times. Academic inflation is necessitating that one gets a MA for a good job.