PEOPLE PROFILE GORDON DRYDEN

for many years i had a dream that the greatest educational revolutionaries i had personalay met - eg gordon dryden, taddy blecher, the gandhi family at lucknow would co-launch microeducationsummit with sir fazle abed out of Bangladesh - in fact my family's connections with gordon go back 33 years (ie longer than any educational or open tech great) - while there are some people father mentored who now have high positions in uk and usa since even earlier times eg roman prodi (italy, European Union) and mary robinsiorn (Ireland and earth institute) since 1976, none of these people credit my family's work as relevant to what they now perform (this is strange to me because his curriculum of entrepreurail revolution since 1972 is the lpnly wesgtern system that can connect woth milelnailsustaonablity networking being the most wonderful time to be alive for their local youth or youth linkedin globally especially the extreme challnges those workinhg on girl empowerment out of exytreme poverty face)

B01 Bangladesh economical miracle of 15 million poorest village mothers grasssroots networking -good news reporting with brac.tv and valuetrue.com and womenuni.com

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i love gordon dryden's life work even though it seems that as these late 2010s spin ever more chaotically and away from all my father's work at the Economist, living on other sides of the wprld there is no way we can find a win-0win between the youth we most urgently want to help co-cteate livelihoods with locally -

in new zealand www.the learningweb.net is the only movement directly inspired by meeting my fathers 1984 future history on how education would save or ruin millennials world

gordon's tragedy is while his book sold 10 milion copies to chiense fa,ilies in teh 1990s he actually made negative earnings from this dud to losing a copyright battle with the publisher- this thye impoacyt of his ideas never grew in china in spiute of one nationwide braodcast- his impact on chnaging educational system therefore has nkot be massive but you can find examples - in some new zealand schools, in some singapore schools, in part of the internatioanl baccalaureate curriculum - 

gordon is now in his mid 80s so tarely able top travel and this not linked into the great education summits spaces such as wise- he did go to mexico hoping that a wikipedia in education summit would go well but found that wkiipedia's inner netwprks were very exclusive ( the one person i trust to help explore whether wikipedia coyuld ever help is ab whose expoerience of wikipedia started in india vilages then india mit media lab and has not got him a scholarship trop interview everyone in mit/boston

gordon helped connections with ying lowrey and so aliresearch.com

he reported that new zealand and autrali have very actiove dialogues going with china and particularly jack ma- on the one side they want youth to connect with all positive digital and infrastructore futruires on the other hand both copuntries are afraid of all their favorite places bveing taken over by richest chiense who can afford to pay anything for homes

when i think of gordon , i think of everyone in new zealand or ausyrial who has inpsoired me over the years- when i was based in london up to 2006 i reguklarly met several of them but I just dont have the funds to connect locally with oz and nz

jack yan a cheinse new zealnaders interested in fashion branding and youth

paul komesaroff - in melbourne of several medical heroes conecetd to george patton who amy listened to at the wprld bank youth in development event; paul also loves chiense medicine and cultiral reconcilaition; there was a tech innovarion authgor in ausytrial whose catalogue of innovators included me and the yokois which is where i first met hiro and hos brother; they inytroduced me to extraordiary work at university of tokyu; also they sponsored chilka arts olym;piads - amy's firts international louting where we also met billy; she continued to tour san diegoi with hioro and then miko

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gordon does not understand hiw difficult it is to free american youth from all of media and big politicins- hence his conversations on how to convert trump dont always show an optimistric pattern

example from may 2017

we (eg every chinese person/girl, student and ma-compatible solution i can find) are working hard to turn america first into american people need to understand what the win-win is of any particular approach

 

geopolitics and rotten us media got top the stage that not even us politicains had a clue what the win-win was of any foreign initiatives

 

its not that i hold our much hope of converting trump but china offers a continuos way to keep reassessing this - the point is all american politicians and media needed converting if american youth are not to have to bail out everyone one of the sytsem misrakes from broken banks, broken mega-digital infrastructures, war games etc

 

please note that where i use the wopord american i culd go more braodly and say reform is needed in any english-speaking analysis of collaborating round both growth and sustainability so youth startong with thise in places that were previously most disconnecetd (thanks to smart education) have better prospects than elders - my fathers core editorial rule of everything he ever reported

 

chris


From: Gordon Dryden <gordon@learningweb.co.nz>
To: christopher macrae <chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk> 
Sent: Sunday, 21 May 2017, 3:36
Subject: Re: Trump quote

I don’t know anyone in New Zealand who would agree with you on Trump: me included.

 

Gordon

 

From: christopher macrae <chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: christopher macrae <chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sunday, 21 May 2017 at 6:02 pm
To: Gordon Dryden <gordon@learningweb.co.nz>, Alizee <amy212@vip.qq.com>
Subject: Re: Trump quote

 

trump is shaking up east in ways that could yet save american youth but its politically incorrect to say so- fortunately that means becoming one of trumps sources on china may yet be possible

 


From: Gordon Dryden <gordon@learningweb.co.nz>
To: christopher macrae <chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk> 
Sent: Sunday, 21 May 2017, 0:04
Subject: FW: Trump quote

 

 

 

Passed on by Gordon Dryden, in memory of Nelson Mandella’s 26 years in prison waiting for justice and equality

 

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survey 1of child centric education

My dream: everyone experiences Harrison Owen OpenSpace After%20the%20Rage.pdf

IF SCHOOLS were child centric they would make age relevant interventions:

if anyone is illiterate at age 6 it only takes 90 days to change that - best of all a literate kid can be main helper in 20 minute session - see sunita gandhi

finacial literacy would be practicsed from age 8 - see aflatoun ( works in 100 countries

from age 10 pre-teens would have access to pfysical and mental health studies designed peer to peer -see Lancet

no kid would leave primary school without knowing how open space meetings/teamwork is facilitated

teachers would be celebrated for clarifying which skills involve experiential learning not classroom examination - while there is some recognition that music and sports involve practice, its shocking that coding isnt valued this way ..

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Do you have life-changing moment to share? - what was it and what did you think or do differently after it?

example until 9/11, i assumed that (good) futures are happening somewhere in the world and would be searched out so that all could communally replicate them;  === 9/11 caused me to question whether global connectivity will give us time to find sustainable solutions for our kids- i became particulaly interested in places where good education leaps appeared but did not get app'd the world over - one example actually goes back to my favorite 1990s advances in schools that a small cliuster of new zealand schools pioneered - download it here https://oiipdf.com/download/the-learning-revolution

i welcome discussion of this book's parts at any time rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk if you have a solution every community that develops youth could be cooperational

in 1984our book with economist editors 2025report made the case for 40 year commitment to every child identifying own skils dashboard and maximising AI curation of this- we valued this as sustainability critical worldwide cooperation - we see no logic for changing this concern

== we live in an age where most up to half of knowhow of techforgood changes every 3 years - we needed mindsets for exploration not for being standard examined; a nation that makes its college students its largest debt class is likely to collapse economically socially environmentally if web3 is designed for celebrating sustainability cooperation; and if web3 is not designed for neough yout to linkin the first sustainability generation then we are all heading the way of the dodo

I am learn to learn

chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk  

TECH - What is IT? and which exponential multipliers most impact human and natural futures?

AI   >. silicon chip singularity (ie when one chip > one brain in pure analytical capacity) - science fictiion no moore

who programs the ai - the race to include lost voices eg girls- the world of statistics re=-examined like never before (eg previously mass statistics very weak at coding meaining from numbers)

Biotech  >> Affective science (loveq and emotional intelligence remains human's unique edge over artificials for at least 10 more years!)

Some people say that Virtual or Augmented Reality has advanced at its best so far in last 12 months that there are hardly any qualified teachers only pioneering explorers- does this matter - well its VR which is your gateway to web3 - intead of just a mobile device you will like wear  a visual sensor system; equally others argue that you shouldnt worry about how fast you put googles on - what you should want is to take back ownbership of what you spend time creating virually- look at the small print of the big platforms you probably dont own anything without them..maybe this is a generation issue bu interstingly the met-generation can now work on chnaging anything that old systems are destroying (eg climate) ...t 

 IOT which things will now have brains and be as mobile connected as you are

Crypto - can communities celebrate financiang their own most urgent sustainability cooperations? if they dont who wil?

Cyber >> Drone - opportunities and threats of public spaces- first in spaces like the arctic circle if we dont use drones we will get no warning before the big meltdown

-the mkist memorable western campus event i attended in 2010s was tufts colllaboratory summit convened mainly by arctic circle youth under 25; 

one of the main debates how to help teachers in arctic circle schools empower their students to use virtual reality to visit other arctic circles schools communities; many of the changes and solutions are analogous; I am reminded by educators leading the compilation of virtual realty libraries of the DICE acronym - a reen might want to do something dangerous like climb everest, why not VR simulate that? there are impossible things a trainee doctor will never be able to travel inside a humans gut but that can be VR'd; there are catastropghic simulations - you would rid the world of bees just to test if donald is wrong about nature being more powerful than he is, you can simulate it; or the future of smart tourism may be curation of what a community is proudest of being visited for - this way ecotourism, cultural appreciation exchanges can be twinned to maximise celebration of each other- and by the way friends of the tourist can join in virtually- of corse this raises a metaverse question - that Hong Kong is leading the world on

being 100% public - good and bad hacs- note context matters - context 1 smart city context 2 isolated vilalge no moore context 3 make a huge land safe at borders

3D printing aka additive engineering

Big Data Small by market tech sector Leapfrogging

Nano cf einstein - to innovate science model more micro

Blockchain

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