• TOPICS
• What's Wrong With Education?
• In this video, the producers use the the power of television to judge and demean people.
• How did they produce it and does their point have merit?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik2R-8H3R2c&eurl=http://widget-f0.slide.com/widgets/sf.swf
• "Why don't we get the best out of people?"
• http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66
• "Sir Ken Robinson argues that it's because we've been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies -- far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity -- are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. 'We are educating people out of their creativity.'"

• LINKS
• Getting Ahead Or Losing Ground: Economic Mobility In America
• http://economicmobility.org/reports_and_research/mobility_in_america?id=0010
• "The report, ... warns that "widening gaps in higher education between rich and poor, whites and minorities, could soon lead to a downturn in opportunities for the poorest families.."
• http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022008O.shtml
• The Future of Learning In a Networked World
• "...a social inclusion experiment."
• http://flosse.dicole.org/?item=networked-learning-in-a-networked-world
• "While Skype-chating ... I decided what I want to talk. I want to talk about 'networked learning', 'informal learning', 'non-formal learning', 'networks' and 'groups.'"
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networked_learning
• "Networked learning is a process of developing and maintaining connections with people and information, and communicating in such a way so as to support one another's learning."
• Pangea Day
• The first global campfire.
• http://www.pangeaday.org/
• A program of short films, visionary speakers, and uplifting music
• Live events on every continent connected by satellite
• A global audience of millions on TV, internet, and mobile phone
• Thousands of grass-roots Pangea Day Parties.
• There appear to be several local private events scheduled nearby.
• The California Democratic Convention
• http://www.cadem.org/site/c.jrLZK2PyHmF/b.3904469/
• March 28 - 30, 2008, San Jose Convention Center

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