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Phil Bachmann commented on Ron Rigatoni's blog post 'po - A virtual thinking tower can replace schools.'

Re: In this virtual tower you can think about real life scenarios without the need to gather all the information you need to start thinking (this is the service of the tower). Maybe. My best guess so far is that the primary service provided by the…

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Phil Bachmann commented on Ron Rigatoni's blog post 'po - A virtual thinking tower can replace schools.'

Ron, Because of my rush to talk about my learning website, my explanation of the platform was anything but clear. Key to understanding it is that I have targetted this platform at Niters (people Not Interested in Technology). Niters who want to de…

yesterday

Phil Bachmann commented on Ron Rigatoni's blog post 'po - A virtual thinking tower can replace schools.'

Ron, Looking at this idea again I'm bound to say that I missed a lot of the value of your idea in my eagerness to talk about mine. For example, The following phrase: In this virtual tower you can think about real life scenarios without the need t…

on Thursday

Phil Bachmann replied to Graeme Allan's discussion 'Thinking in the New Australian Curriculum'

Perhaps it's not tactful for me to suggest this, ... but should we send them a sack of potatoes?

on Wednesday

Phil Bachmann replied to Graeme Allan's discussion 'Thinking in the New Australian Curriculum'

>> What do you/others think about a group submission to Julia? I don't mind particularly whether the email is sent directly to her or to the curriculum site. My guess is that if we send it to her we'll get a form letter saying submit it to the curr…

on Tuesday

Phil Bachmann replied to Graeme Allan's discussion 'Thinking in the New Australian Curriculum'

Graeme, So are we still making a submission? It doesn't have to be long - one sentence would suffice.

on Tuesday

Phil Bachmann replied to Graeme Allan's discussion 'Thinking in the New Australian Curriculum'

> How do you know cows are happy, Phil? I'm guessing that unhappy cows would make a lot of moo-moo noises.

on Tuesday

Phil Bachmann replied to Graeme Allan's discussion 'Thinking in the New Australian Curriculum'

Re: What can education do make people happier? Teaching thinking can make people happier if they are more able to adapt to their circumstances, generate humour, feel good about having an extra skill etc. I guess you don't need thinking to be happy…

on Monday

Phil Bachmann replied to Edward de Bono's discussion 'Thinking tools/frameworks vs. discussion'

Hello Raymond, The way you describe learning and understanding makes me think of the White Hat in the Six Thinking Hats.

March 14

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The MySchool Saga

The Australian government released some statistics on how school were performing in teaching reading and writing. They called it the "My School Website". This website (www.myschool.edu.au) allows you to look at those stats. Now there's another MySc…

March 13

Phil Bachmann replied to Graeme Allan's discussion 'Thinking in the New Australian Curriculum'

Re: So, is My School a place for draft Oz Curriculum discussion. It's probably as good a place as any? Why not here? Why there? Notwithstanding the fact that I thought we were preparing a submission based on the idea that thinking should be a mains…

March 13

Phil Bachmann replied to Graeme Allan's discussion 'Thinking in the New Australian Curriculum'

hR 1. I reckon this myschool impersonator should get his own business based on his own ideas rather than ride on name recognition of a government program. 2. I think it was weak of him to delete the blog entry I submitted on his site. hH I think…

March 13

Phil Bachmann replied to Graeme Allan's discussion 'Thinking in the New Australian Curriculum'

Kim, The site Julia Gillard set up is www.myschool.edu.au. The site you referred to was set up by a cheeky entrepreneur who wanted to make money by getting people to click on advertising links. There are others of his ilk at www.naplanonline.com.a…

March 12

Phil Bachmann replied to Graeme Allan's discussion 'Thinking in the New Australian Curriculum'

More white hat... "Thinking" and "Creativity" are two of the ten "little adjuncts" to the big four curriculum areas (History, English etc). So what you do is open any of those four pdfs and look for the word thinking. There you'll see how the exper…

March 9

Phil Bachmann replied to Graeme Allan's discussion 'Thinking in the New Australian Curriculum'

Good luck. I tried to read that "Goals for young Australians" document but didn't get past the first couple of pages.

March 8

Phil Bachmann commented on Kim Jones's blog post 'Why Is History a Core Subject in Schools?'

Kim, I think it might be time for you to join us at: http://www.debonosociety.com/xn/detail/2696260:Topic:13508?xg_source=activity :)

March 8

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I've been a fan of Edward de Bono for quite a while.

I am a software developer which I guess makes me shy, awkward, unsociable, disdainful of technophobes and unable to solve problems other than through unnecessary complexity.

I try to avoid being like this but the laws of nature says that people who do the same job for years on end will inevitably be defined by what they do.

I am participating in this forum because I share many interests with Edward de Bono (though I do not claim that I am similarly competent) and would like to try out ideas on real live guinea pigs.

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The MySchool Saga

The Australian government released some statistics on how school were performing in teaching reading and writing. They called it the "My School Website".

This website (www.myschool.edu.au) allows you to look at those stats. Now there's another MySchool website with a very similar address www.myschool.com.au, which allows people to discuss those statistics.

But the second site is not

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Posted on March 13, 2010 at 10:34am —

Thinking skills to be taught at all Australian schools - not.

The Aussie Govt has decided to have the world's best education system, and had its minions release a draft document explaining what the new curriculum will look like.

It's available at http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au. Has anyone seen it? (You need to create an account to be allowed access.)

Yes "Thinking Skills" is there, but it's listed as a "General Skill" that teachers have been asked to apply to thei

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Posted on March 3, 2010 at 8:12am — 18 Comments

Competition Entry - The All Cars story

All Cars is a Melbourne based chauffeured car business that wanted to provide a job despatch service which would offload surplus work between themselves and other operators.

They tried many different systems over the years: trunk radio, SMS, paging services and email. They tried for more than five years.

Some of these schemes meandered along like a car with three flat tires, while others went straight over a cliff.

Always there were perfectly reasonable explanations as to why things went wron… Continue

Posted on December 5, 2009 at 6:56am — 2 Comments

Revolutionizing Education

I started doing some videos to suggest the possibility that the (Australian) government should be doing more to encourage "thinking" as part of the curriculum.

But the more I thought about it, and explored the issue, and looked at what people were doing already, the more futile it seemed.

Maybe it could be done, I know that EdB often cites the example of Venezuela, but it seems unrealistic to expect politicians in Western democracies to foist something unfamiliar onto a self-righteous public.… Continue

Posted on October 7, 2009 at 10:08am — 50 Comments

Edward de Bono at the T.E.D. conference

I had a conversation today with the de Bono Society's resident sweetheart, Franis, in which we pondered why it is that Edward de Bono isn't the main attraction at every TED conference.

I could speculate of course (and we did), but does anyone actually know?

Posted on August 28, 2009 at 12:05pm — 22 Comments

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At 1:50am on September 13, 2009, Kim Jones said…: Anthem intro music - hopefully this will upload to you!Anthem Intro.mp3

At 6:54pm on September 12, 2009, Franis said…: Hi Phil, yes, I'm leaving this coming Wednesday, if everything works out. Am now busy getting ready to go. I'll drop in here from time to time, but not regularly as I'll be using public computers without much time available.
I'm not sure what you're asking me for, to leave you with some parting shot. What would you suggest?

At 12:01am on September 9, 2009, Joe Baker said…: Why thank you Phil!

At 12:58pm on August 14, 2009, Kim Jones said…: Thanks Phil, love the new photo

At 8:51pm on July 18, 2009, Franis said…: The "Ithaca Hours" currency is still going in Ithaca NY. That town has the most successful town currency experiment going since 1991. My own town was too small to support it over time - only 1800 people. But it was certainly a fun thing to try to make it fly and I recommend it as an activity. You can search the examples of how different towns have made this idea work... it's quite fascinating.

At 8:49am on May 19, 2009, Andy said…: Phil, thanks for your post (click) and sorry I forgot to say this earlier.

At 2:38pm on May 12, 2009, Mandy Holloway said…: thanks for the encouragement........yes I have my 'thinking hat' on to choose the best option to enter into the competition. Look forward to some challenging and interesting conversations.

At 9:16am on May 12, 2009, Andy said…: Hi Phil,
I apologise for replying so late (click).

At 5:35pm on May 9, 2009, Sarah Justine Packwood said…: Hi Phil,
Thanks for those thought provoking questions!
1) What surprised me most when I first started working in Africa - well I probably have so many things to share about this. The joy of the Rwandese refugees in the face of adversity, their amazing hospitality, finding that I can communicate in many ways even without really knowing the local languages, discovering my own insecurities and realising how much I missed home but also being confronted with the stark contrast between my own culture and way of living and the culture I was then living in, the difference in the light and skies and how big the horizon seemed, jokes and stories that transfer easily across cultural boundaries, being stretched to the limit and finding myself swimming and not drowning.....
2) What challenged me most - putting limits on my own abilities, dealing with a situation where fear and intimidation are powerful influences in controlling the behaviour of a large population, being confronted by death and trauma, having to really think on my feet in a potentially life threatening situation and coming out the other side OK! I could go on and on....It is good to reflect. Thank you!

At 6:46pm on April 18, 2009, Anish Joshi said…: I like that quote Phil!
The one I go for normally is Oscar Wilde's:
"Everything popular is wrong"

I'm a designer by profession, but if distilled down, I just like thinking differently, trying to do and create something that isn't the norm -then its special!