{"id":691,"date":"2007-11-13T18:35:47","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T17:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=691"},"modified":"2007-11-13T18:36:19","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T17:36:19","slug":"an-excellent-follow-up-to-the-lessig-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/13\/an-excellent-follow-up-to-the-lessig-video\/","title":{"rendered":"An excellent follow-up to the Lessig video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, more on how the world is changing wildly while we&#8217;re busy making other plans:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pMcfrLYDm2U&#038;rel=1&#038;border=0\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This is a <em>wonderfully<\/em> simple and provocative video.  You can quibble about some of the details, but don&#8217;t.  Step back and soak in the big picture.  And then think about how we educate our kids and ourselves.  (I&#8217;m sure that teaching children that the earth is 6,000 years old <em>must<\/em> be a win.  Really.  Just <em>must<\/em> be.)<\/p>\n<p>The folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theopenhouseproject.com\/\">The OpenHouse Project<\/a> get credit for both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theopenhouseproject.com\/2007\/11\/07\/two-internet-cultural-shift-videos\/\">the pointer<\/a>, and for relating this to <a href=\"http:\/\/unhinderedbytalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/09\/the-world-our-kids-live-in\/\">the Lessig video<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/change\/\" title=\"change\">change<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/education\/\" title=\"Education\">Education<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/future\/\" title=\"future\">future<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/technology\/\" title=\"technology\">technology<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/video\/\" title=\"Video\">Video<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/10\/we-have-to-help-them-understand-science-matters\/\" title=\"We have to help them understand:  Science matters! (10 Jan 08)\">We have to help them understand:  Science matters!<\/a> (1)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/12\/now-i-say-something-about-walking-uphill-to-school-both-ways\/\" title=\"Now I say something about walking uphill to school &#8211; both ways (12 Nov 07)\">Now I say something about walking uphill to school &#8211; both ways<\/a> (2)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, more on how the world is changing wildly while we&#8217;re busy making other plans: This is a wonderfully simple and provocative video. You can quibble about some of the details, but don&#8217;t. Step back and soak in the big picture. And then think about how we educate our kids and ourselves. (I&#8217;m sure that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/13\/an-excellent-follow-up-to-the-lessig-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An excellent follow-up to the Lessig video&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,17,28,5],"tags":[74,868,72,73,876],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-b9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1273,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2010\/05\/12\/we-invest-in-research-but-what-about-teaching\/","url_meta":{"origin":691,"position":0},"title":"We invest in research, but what about teaching?","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"12 May 10","format":false,"excerpt":"From a nice piece by Vikram Savkar at ScienceProgress.org entitled \"We invest in research, but what about teaching?\": Since President Obama\u2019s announcement of the Educate to Innovate program in November 2009, an encouraging number of technology and media companies, non-profit organizations and government agencies have been working in concert to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Education&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/education\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1078,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2009\/08\/22\/study-finds-on-line-education-beats-classroom-but-what-does-that-mean\/","url_meta":{"origin":691,"position":1},"title":"Study finds on-line education beats classroom, but what does that mean?","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"22 Aug 09","format":false,"excerpt":"A recent study for the Department of Education (NY Times piece; full 93-page PDF report) performed a meta-analysis of 99 students over the past 12 years, and found that students in on-line courses did slightly, but statistically significantly, better than those in traditional classrooms. It's an interesting study, and likely\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Education&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/education\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1542,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2011\/08\/13\/education-is-about-interaction-not-content\/","url_meta":{"origin":691,"position":2},"title":"Education is about interaction, not content","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"13 Aug 11","format":false,"excerpt":"The scarcity of content through much of human history (remember when they used to chain books to shelves in libraries?) has allowed us to collectively confuse education with the delivery of content. It was about the lecture, in which rare and wondrous knowledge was imparted to eager young minds, not\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Education&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/education\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":786,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/30\/techcrunch-endorses-obama-and-mccain\/","url_meta":{"origin":691,"position":3},"title":"TechCrunch endorses Obama and McCain","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"30 Jan 08","format":false,"excerpt":"In a well written and thoughtful endorsement that (not surprisingly) focuses on tech related issues, they've gone for Obama and McCain (with a strong preference for Obama between the two). 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What's really depressing is that the bill going forward is hardly impressive. \"Over three bienniums, we are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Education&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/education\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":441,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/02\/05\/why-publicly-funded-education-is-so-important\/","url_meta":{"origin":691,"position":5},"title":"Why publicly funded education is so important","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"5 Feb 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Peter Wyckoff, another of my fine colleagues, recently testified in the state legislature on the importance of publicly funding the kind of work we do here at UMM. PeeZed's got the whole transcript up, so I'll let you go there to read Pete's fine words. 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