eying remote property in Oregon for future "school for diplomats"

[kirby urner]

Holden Web was asking about property in Fossil, Oregon.
I've suggested that as a base, given the remoteness, for
one of our "schools for diplomats" (guaranteed diversity
or your money back).

The projected franchise centers around server technology
with the school paper becoming the same web framework
used for sharing course content over the wire to client
devices -- a two way street, as students learn to publish
to the server, chronicle their studies.[1]

I don't see a small Silicon Forest based firm, a rain maker
in the conference business (good for hotels and campuses),
doing some kind of exclusive deal with Brian.  There'd need
to be more of a pool of investors, plus we left the door open
for USG involvement, as long as that doesn't mean domination
by DC, a distant peer. 

So far this seems to be working, at least at the small business
level (my loan was paid off some time ago -- much needed
"stimulus money").  GOSCON happened at The Nines (with
Holden Web present).  Lots of overlap with OS Bridge,
another of Portland's many geek events for educators and
social network engineers, in cahoots with techie businesses.
Such is our booming economy (OPDX has actually been
good for some businesses, if not for others).[2][3]

If you venture forth from your school with a dodecacam
strapped to your back (from Immersive Media), then you
will want all that heavy lifting to pay off.  The media
streams go to the school server and someday a student
following in your tracks will pull up the same almost-360
panorama.  The ability to juxtapose scenarios from the
same hike, from season to season, is going to be a major
source of value added.

I'm going to be pumping conferees at the upcoming us.pycon
and OSCON about strategies for organizing GIS / GPS servers
of this kind.  I already have quite a few yours of lecture time
behind me along those lines.  I know quite a bit about how
Metro operates here in Portland, and Trimet.  I'm expecting
that we will be transferring a lot of these skills to rural Oregon
as a part of this education initiative.  Advance publicity by the
"bizmo fleet" will be important, as we don't want a repeat of
Rajneesh Puram.  Town-gown relations need to be based on
mutual respect, with a safe space created for airing the fears
of both sides.  That workshop at PSU was right up my ally
in that sense.[4]

Notes:

[1] (as any good scientist would (keeping journals is a
prerequisite for acceptance, some argue in HR, but
how to prove you keep one if its not a blog (insisting
they be on-line ignores the ghetto-like worse-than-
dial-up living conditions many Global U students put
up with)).

[2]  http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2010/11/goscon-2010.html (GOSCON 2010)

[3]  http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2011/10/domes-future.html (OPDX)

[4]  http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2012/02/wandering-in-psu.html (Jeff Goebel's workshop)

Related Reading:

School Spirit & Place Based Education:
http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2009/04/school-spirit.html (placed based)
http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2008/06/immersion-experience.html (Immersive Media)

[Maria Droujkova]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 6:44 PM, kirby urner <kirby...@gmail.com> wrote:

Holden Web was asking about property in Fossil, Oregon.
I've suggested that as a base, given the remoteness, for
one of our "schools for diplomats" (guaranteed diversity
or your money back).

"Deep diplomacy" - as in, integrating cultures - is on my growing list of jobs kids can do significantly better than adults.

Speaking of which, does anyone have candidates for my list? Another task/job on it, for example, is divergent thinking.

This has direct relevance to mathematics, through learning design. In mixed age groups, there MUST be roles and tasks where young kids shine, or they will be "second-grade participants" and their learning will suffer.

Cheers,
Maria Droujkova
919-388-1721

Make math your own, to make your own math

[Sue VanHattum]

Not a real task, but in looking at the games I like to play, kids learn Set quickly and some of them can beat adults. Kids can definitely beat adults at Spot It. I think kids are better at noticing lots of details.

Great question!

[Sue VanHattum]

Oops! I've gotten too good at trimming. Since I changed the subject line, it might be helpful to arching to have the original question. Here's Maria:

"Deep diplomacy" - as in, integrating cultures - is on my growing list of jobs kids can do significantly better than adults.

Speaking of which, does anyone have candidates for my list? Another task/job on it, for example, is divergent thinking.

This has direct relevance to mathematics, through learning design. In mixed age groups, there MUST be roles and tasks where young kids shine, or they will be "second-grade participants" and their learning will suffer.

And my response:

[Troy A. Peterson]

My friends and I used to play Warcraft II with my son.  There came a point where his ability to multitask made the experience miserable for everyone.  It's takes a child to raze a village.  ;P

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Sue VanHattum <suevan...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Not a real task, but in looking at the games I like to play, kids learn Set quickly and some of them can beat adults. Kids can definitely beat adults at Spot It. I think kids are better at noticing lots of details.

Great question!

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[David Wees]

Can I quote you on that one Troy? I laughed out loud. So funny.

David

[Troy A. Peterson]

Of course, attribution not necessary. :)

[m...@ms.lt]

Maria, Sue and all, great question!

I think that children are better at noticing or saying the obvious, as in
"The Emperor's New Clothes". I remember a child happily blurting out that
I was in love with somebody, which I suppose was obvious, and I was happy
for that.

A one-year old once pointed upwards for me to look, and I couldn't
understand what he was pointing at. After a few moments, I saw a fly
bumbling around along the ceiling.

So reviving the every day miracles that we've forgotten.

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas
m...@ms.lt
http://www.selflearners.net
(773) 306-3807