Gypsies’ Life Stylin part9: Our Neighbors' Education
This tune inspired our, “Education for All,” article:
"Auli’i Cravalho - How Far I’ll Go”
Lesson #1
RSA's Time video
Watch "RSA Animate - The Secret Powers of Time" https://youtu.be/FXjVjQbBRw4
After which, I’d recommend the rest in no particular order. I’d also recommend the videos translated into Khmai, so ALL children can learn not just the privileged few. 😍
Want to be a cyber, finance, life, social psychological, languages, music, maths, molecular biological, physics, astronomy, and/or everything else Rembrandt?
Do the following
Forever Curious
All links
https://medium.com/@5688tx/forever-curious-4456358a3927
Cyber
All links
https://medium.com/@5688tx/it-padawan-training-a20e62e3b5ee
The Khan Academy is free for all curious minds and access to the internet. Setup Chromebook computer labs throughout the city, but lock it down because many locals are hedonistic present followers, see RSA’s Time video for further explanation.
The Khan Academy presents information in a conversational Sensei-Grasshopper relationship. Broad topics are generalised to modules to individual lessons. Individual lessons range from 2 minutes to 21 minutes, photosynthesis video is I think one of the longest along with electron train transport.
There is a healthy mix of challenge exercises, individual lessons, and critical thinkers' games. Allow our divergent thinkers as much unstructured leeway as possible. It empowers the pupil to stay thirsty in our quest towards enlightenment.
I am one of the lucky few divergent thinkers to never have made it into the Age of Not Believing, see musicial tribute.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks: The Age of Not Believing https://g.co/kgs/wE7r2E
In the Computer Science, MCAT, and maths modules, there are loads of brain challenges, exercises to review what we learned.
Don’t Panic! Quizzes and exams are our friends. They help validate our long term memories.
However, I don’t agree with quizzes. I’d much prefer group projects where everyone plays an important role. I first learned about group projects at UMUC, a military university. ☺
The most important role is team forced smile analyst NOT team leader because the Happiness maker must know how to make everyone happy. I have a few shared talents.
My first mixed martial arts (MMA) was with Sensei Lee, a Proper Tiger Team veteran. Chuck Norris used to train with The South Korean Tiger Team. 😁 The art known as Tai-Kwon-Do, I never made it past yellow belt because I thought it was stupid to pay for belts.
I did spar with all my Sensei’s best blackbelts and held my own. I even challenged my Sensei once. I wasn’t ready then. Sensei Lee owned me during BJJ practice with what I like to call the spiderweb catcher of negative pastors. ☺
Make sure groups have an even number of peer learners, so the pupils can bounce ideas off each other around the circle.
Sensei’s are a last resort help. Have older and/or more knowledgable peers train the padawans first. Handle learning like life at the lowest level!
http://philrichardson.co.uk/pa450/teamwork/tm_role.htm
Group projects' Circle Members
Team editor, team first draft, team web designer, team gopher, team forced smile analyst, and team lead. Six is a nice round number.
Pupils and students critique each other’s performance and those critiques are included in the continuing knowledge circle. If the Sensi, an older peer, sees critiques are too fluffy then a Sensei will punish in private and have the padawans re-do the critiques with more directed guidance. However, it’s best if most of our education is unstructured. ☺
Khan Academy
Astronomy, all videos
Physics, all videos
Molecular Biology/Biochemistry — MCAT prep, all videos
Finance and Capital Markets, all videos
History, all videos
Music, all videos
Journey into Cryptography, algorithms, and information theory, all videos
Depending on one’s curiosity and motivation, the preceding should take a handful of years, perhaps even, two handfuls.
Proceed at an out of comfort zone place minimally invasive. Glue our newly acquired information into our neuroplastics with
"Show, Do, Teach"
Great teachers don’t teach.~not me They help us grow and expand our minds. Great teachers guide us to the light. We, as grasshoppers, must do the last mile. ☺
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/great-teachers-do-not-teach-ben-johnson
Show One
Showing our pupils, students, life learners, etc, how to do something allows them to retain roughly 10-15% of the lectured notes. Showing provides basic structure and rules.
It’s why we have so many superficial learners. Because pupils would rather eat their green vegetables than do listening to an old fart to paraphrase George Carlin. ☺
Do One
Immediately following the Show challenge, make our pupils Do the exercise as many times as it takes until our pupils can perform the function without help. Doing the exercise allows a pupil to retain an additional 50-70% retention rate.
Teach Others
Immediately following the incredible lightbulb effect, the pupils become the teachers by Teaching a peer the same. Teaching allows pupils to retain 85-95% of the newly acquired information.
What do we learn from "Show, Do, Teach?"
If we intuited, “No matter how much we practice, we will never be perfect. However, learning isn’t about perfection...learning is about daily doing!”
A virus is able to evolve faster than any other organism because it has no centralised command structure and makes loads of mistakes. However, viruses are ridiculously quik learners.
For example, nearly everyone takes our learned skill of walking for granted. Most of us learned how to walk by making loads of mistakes.
Mistakes are the keys to evolutionarily exponentially expanding our personal universe as well as our neighbors' universe. 😍😍😍
For example, a few days ago, I practiced Duolingo’s French lesson 1 with a beautiful young lady in Phnom Penh. I showed her the Duolingo app and how to type faster on a smartphone with our thumbs.
Many falsely believe it’s faster to smartphone type with our index fingers.
“Gypsies' Life Stylin part7: Sloth’s 12 Commandments”
Excerpt
Kissing humans is one of my fav activities. If I were to begin a religious movement then rule #1 and #2 would be to begin every new micro-relationship with a hug then a friendship kiss like the Frenchies do. 😍
https://medium.com/@5688tx/sloths-c7d8df50a973
The preceding articles should provide our less fortunate as well as all other "intrigued" parties, the tools they need to rebel against the status quo.
It’s going to take blood, sweat, and loads of money to overhaul our broken educational model. However, everyone is worth a 2nd look! 😍😍😍
Musicial tribute, Handy by Weird Al
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