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Dobilas, Thanks for the encouragement. Yes responsibility is right up there amongst the things that should be taught, online or otherwise. In fact the head master of one of Oz's top private schools had a top ten list of what should be taught at sc…
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Hi Phil, I have been reviewing your original statement. I'm fascinated thinking about some of the changes that have taken place in the possibilities for on-line education since you made the Blog Post in '09. I can comment about some of those next we…
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Hi Phil, What a boy :-) Thanks and greetings from a sixty-sixer :-) I'm sure we can get good traction with this Blog. Cheers Phil!
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G'day Bhuvaneshwar: I'd never seen wiziq.com - these people look technically very able. Dobilas - thanks again for the encouragement. Your tireless energy is an inspiration to people under 60. With the world moving so quickly I still find myself s…
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A small challenge and in two parts: Part 1 I'm not into semantics but "Revolutionizing Education" assumes we have 'education' happening in 'educational'. institutions; schools, universities... Some claim the best word is 'schooling', in the absence…
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I too had similar experience and so had EDB himself. Academicians are a hard nut to crack !Your suggestion of online teaching needs to be prmoted.You could try it with WIZIQ.com. EDB Society could then help in spreading the good word. InIndiad there…
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Good idea Franis, There is no reason for me not to make my replies more self-contained and less dependant on the comment they are responding to.
August 27
There are ghosts that you're responding to who have unsubscribed and wiped their contributions from this thread... you'll have to remember to quote some of what you admire so if the person unsubs, people will at least know what you're talking about.
August 27
Is there any better way to understand the 1950s that to read womens' magazines of that period?
August 11
Phil Bachmann and Dobilas Allanas are now friends
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I used the term youngster instead of kid because I did not want to categorise children as a sub-species of humans. A local doctor made the point some time ago when two small children came into a cafe hidden under umbrellas. When a waiter almost bum…
August 8
My mother, by the way, was 19 when she gave birth to yours truly in 1956. In response to my oft-put question "why did you marry our father" she would usually respond along the lines of "I was still a kid in my head". So, define "youngster" for me,…
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My father kicked me straight across the room and I went splat on the opposite wall when I was 18 months old because I crawled up on his knee. I wonder if that left any impact on my psyche. Apparently my mother emptied a pot of boiling tea over his h…
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I'm a software developer and thinking enthusiast.

I believe that Edward de Bono's work represents probably the third most important thing going on in the world today.

The most important things are, of course, the projects I am working on:

1. Creating software that allows people with no interest in technology to create interactive web sites.

2. Creating an online learning environment so that more youngsters can bypass school.

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Do youngsters know how things work?

I visited a local school open day yesterday and the ten year olds who showed me around seemed to know a lot of facts but I wondered whether they knew much about how things worked.



Edward de Bono often says that school kids should be taught how the corner shop works - but it seems very unlikely that this school would ever teach this. For example, at that school the five year olds learnt how to read from a computer connected to a website. But children taught to think would ask qu

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Posted on August 6, 2010 at 11:00pm — 10 Comments

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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 — 2 Comments

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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 — 9 Comments

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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

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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 — 59 Comments

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At 8:03am on April 28, 2010, Franis said…
Congrats on winning the competition! Are you going to get to meet Dr. de Bono when he's in Sydney in May? Tell me all about it! What are you going to ask him about?
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!
 
 
 

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