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Jun 30 2008

The World Flat – Part E

Published by Martin Pluss under Education

Hi all,

The next part of my summary and thoughts on The World is Flat.  This follows from Part A, Part B, Part C and Part D.

The World Flat: Part E

It has taken me five parts and finally I can see where Freidman brings in  his educational thinking.

Right Stuff – education

I have extracted three pojts that caught my attention.

 

  • Curisity CQ and Passion PQ is greater than IQ (Intelligence Quotient).  Survey students for the their favourite teachers and do those courses – the content does not matter. It was a bit like this when I was at university – I am not sure you can get away with this for the “core” of what we need to do but  learning how to learn is made a lot easier by learning from those with passion and intellectual curiosity.
  • In China today Bill Gates is Britney Spears.  In America today Britney Spears is Britney Spears – that is our problem. On this point often I see great teachers in their  own school have to sit listening toexperts from outside to do  what they can do or even do for other schools
  • Remember, in, China when you are one in a million there are 1300 people just like you. This was just a sobering thought.  I remember reading this  on a plane coming back from Wagga Wagga after some presentations.  Does not matter what the odds are have a go. 

 

Okay  the World is Flat

This expression has been around for a while now.  We all have heard it in different contextx no longer are Bangalore Call Centres somehting we hear about they are something we deal with around dinner time.  They are the places we/I can call in the evening to fix up Optus or my PDA.  This is much easier than doing during workhurs. 

 

This sort of stuff has freed me up The playing field is flattened – we can all be an expert now. I feel we have to specialise in our expertise.  I am abreast a lot of information now and peole ask me how I keep onto of things.  For me it is made possible by blogging, Twitter, when it works  and Google Reader – for me it is all viral professional development. 

 

These two summary statements  are useful for me to reflect upon.

 

Columbus looked for India  and found USA and the world is round.

 

Now America has found  India and the world is flat

 

The World is Flat:Part F  will be about how schools can cope. 

 

Now I am off to the Gold Coast  for the Marathon weekend.   with  my family and Cool Running friends

 

Catch you all later.

 

cheers  MArtin  

 

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Jun 30 2008

links for 2008-06-30

Published by Martin Pluss under Web 2.0

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Jun 27 2008

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Jun 26 2008

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Jun 26 2008

Help from Loudtwitter

Published by Martin Pluss under Twitter

Hi all

Loud Twitter and Edublogs have been trying to help me out with getting my tweets imported as blog posts. I have an Edublog which is on a WordPress platform.

Hi

I know you are very busy earning money to support these side interests.

Thanks for providing this service I reckon it is really cool and needed.
I  have followed all the instructions and  managed to get email Twitter posts
but having issues with updating the blog  (after I deactivated email notifications)
One  blog is 
http://martinpluss.edublogs.org/

I have added the xmlrpc.php extension as required for a Word Press blog
which is the platform for edublogs.

The reply

Hi,
could you check what WP logs say? It looks like it returns an incorrect
status code when loudtwitter is posting to this url:

[Mon Jun 23 02:54:48 2008][info] fail [Error on POST

http://martinpluss.edublogs.org/xmlrpc.php: 200 OK] to post plu

Thanks
--
Tipping support appreciated! It pays for server/bandwith... Thanks!

http://www.loudtwitter.com/donate/

I guess now I have to look at the logs – not sure how to do it or if it is an Edublogs thing that I cannot do- any thoughts?

And an update:

My quick reply

Thanks for  getting back to me.  I am not sure how to do this( look at the logs)
I will try (contact edublogs )and get back to you.

and reply

Also, try to get the information if you can use an email address to post to
you blog, that would replace XMLRPC on loudtwitter ends and it's pretty much
guaranteed to work.

Nice to get some help.

I have put a post in Edublogs Forums http://edublogs.org/forums/topic.php?id=6101#post-15397

cheers Martin

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