Empowering and Valuing Orphans - aflatoun in mumbai jamii bora in nairobi
,,Dear Aflatoun
Aflatoun's investment in orphans by being leading primary curriculum organiser of financial literacy is a wonder
40 years ago my father at The Economist (a Keynsian ie who saw job number 1 of economics as ending poverty) and I accidentally got involved in early student experiments with digital learning. Father spent the rest of his life debating entrepreneurial revolution and net generation futures around the assumption that how we changed education would be critical to millennials sustainability. So for example his 1976 survey of entrepreneurial revolution is according to bill drayton the reason why he selected to focus on the entrepreneur word.
Professionally (as a statistician, and researcher of what societies want most) I have spent much of my life trying to change innovation and media in big corporations but amateurly; the search for education change has been my passion and way I have used the internet since 1995
This has led me to directly interviewing people like sir fazle abed of BRAC one of your largest partners, and just this last week the owner of the 5 billion person elearning satellite yazmi
In terms of who and what bottom up changes are needed to curricula , financial literacy is obviously one of the biggest of all. Thats why hidde and I had been keeping in touch in occasional correspondence ever since we first met at a DC presentation of his at Making Cents International;.indeed it makes valuable sense to me that the owners of primary financial literacy curriculum are owners of network ending slums and empowering orphans. Over in Kenya one of my best friends is Ingrid Munro who founded the slum bank Jamii Bora. Across to san francisco how friend of next generation of kiva (crowd-everything) is designed could have huge collaboration implications
Hidde had for example mentioned that directly meeting sir fazle abed at the right time would be of value to Aflatoun. Currently I am helping arrange the diary of meetings between eg sir fazle abed and the founder of yazmi. I am also linking in my indian friends (Gandhi family) who founded lucknow city montessorri- and the question is if all these people do meet or skype intensively would someone form aflatoun wish to maximally interact to?
I am just an open systems mathematician not a great practice hero. My main freind mediating all these personal leadership discussions is Naila Chowdhury who for nearly 20 years helped muhammad yunus as first female director of grameen phone partnership empowering women villagers. If a best starting place is to introduce someone you choose to her by email that could be a first step
OPEN EDU CHANGE THE WORLD
Its quite a hugely detailed/local map -where curriculum and modes of education are changing to value youths jobs, and where national or other leaders are up for this- so always happy to receive more detailed questions. For example by accident my family tree as diaspora scots has several deep eastern experiences;- my maternal grandfather Sir Kenneth Kemp being over 25 years the main Bar of London barrister that Gandhi interacted with in Mumbai region and his parents having run Mumbai's first pharmacy (locally still known as Kemps Corner), and my father's first transformative survey being Consider Japan as gateway to eastern hemisphere change back in 1962. Since the majority of all milennials in poverty are eastern hemisphere, the sustainable world that friends would like to map through educational transformation in next 15 yerars cant happen without maximising eastern youth partnerships joyfully. Right now an elearning satellite reaching Asians and Africans provides an unique opportunity to choose what open education is prime time, and action learned/networked by millennials. This reflects the change of mindset joy can bring as evidenced by jim kim at world bank since 2012 and as also represented by his asian teams mediators of tedx TEDxWBGand open learning campus
thanks chris macrae
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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
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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