Just finished Woody Allen's brilliant movie: Midnight in Paris... Reliving the greatness of the 20's and interacting with the "lost generation" surreal great artists of humanity through the eyes of today is brilliant. Struggle between love and obligation, dreaming and reality, doing what is passionate and what is right... People look for golden age outside their real themselves...Watching it with Wikipedia on your side for referencing is enlightening experience.
This movie deserves more than a watch. But, at this point, here are some of what I got to reflect on in the future:
- Stein: we all fear death and question our place in the universe, the artist job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote to the emptiness of existence.
- Gill: how can anyone come up with a book, or painting, or symphony or sculpture that can compete with a great city... Look around [Paris]... Every street, every boulevard has its special art form. And when you think that in cold violent meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights... Com'n...there is nothing happening on Jupiter or Mars or Neptune, but from way out of space you can see these lights, the cafes, people drinking, singing... I mean for all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the Universe.
- "you inhabit two worlds, so far I see nothing strange"... In the 20's, this is normal. now it is strange!
- "Pablo is the greater artist, but Matese is a greater painter". An interesting distinction between an artist an a painter.
- Everyone consider the other age is the golden age...
- these people don't have antibiotics.
- Writers are full of words but lack emotions.
My favorite new movie. Transformational experience.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Fool on a Hill
I just finished watching Dinner with Schmucks. And this resonated with me.
McCartney said the song relates to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi:
| “ | 'Fool on the Hill' was mine and I think I was writing about someone like Maharishi. His detractors called him a fool. Because of his giggle he wasn't taken too seriously ... I was sitting at the piano at my father's house in Liverpool hitting a D 6th chord, and I made up 'Fool on the Hill.'[r] | ” |
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Learning: Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a new science that is emerging where technology act as an extended tool for our reality. Such tools allow us to recognize more facts about the physical reality that human faculties (like memory or 6th sense) does not recognize. One of the first layperson such tool was the MediaLab 6 sense I showed it an earlier post. With the sophistication of the mobile devices, augmented reality is becoming more popular than anticipated. I think this has a major impact on teaching and learning. Future education, if it survives, will find teaching facts to students is obsolete. The real focus will be developing basic faculty skills and train on methods of utilizing knowledge obtained from AR tools. An example:
As you can see from video, education is trying to get the AR into the classroom. But I think, real AR technology will take learning away from school into real life. Wait for more posts about the topic.
As you can see from video, education is trying to get the AR into the classroom. But I think, real AR technology will take learning away from school into real life. Wait for more posts about the topic.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Learning: Sir Ken, Theatre, Education and Personalized Curriculum
The Link: http://blip.tv/learning-without-frontiers/sir-ken-robinson-march-2011-learning-without-frontiers-4928095
Some quotes:
- A person graduating from an educational experience must have his confidence improved.
- Human Resources is like Natural Resources... Individuals have deep talents that are buried deep within their surface, educators need to mine them like other resources.
- 3 Purposes to education: Personal (connect people to their own sense of possibility, give them sense of creativity, and give them self confidence), Cultural (enable identity, share the identity of other and tolerance) and Economic (must address economic needs and prepare for evolution, prepare ourselves to the challenges of economy.)
- TV Program to watch: How Many People Can Live on Earth: if everybody consume food and water like a person in Botswana, Earth can handle a population of 15B, if we consume like someone in North America: 1.2B only.
- HG Wells: civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Wiki Controlling Insticts - part 1: Me and Wael Ghoneim
Summary: Revolutions is sweeping the Arab world. They are all tagged as the FaceBook revolutions. I agree. FaceBook was a key instrument that created the critical mass required to make the change. in Tunisia, Libya, Yemen and Syria. But not in Egypt. The Egyptian revolution is a Wikipedia Revolution on FaceBook. This is the first part of the story.
First, let me brag: I am proud that I have had direct contact with Wael Ghoneim, the leader of the young revolution.
Last year, I was part of Google's Health Speaks project that donates to charity based on translating Wikipedia Health articles from English to another language. I joined the Arabic project. Except for me, all the participants were Egyptians. I was amazed how chaotically organized they were. I say it is a positive note. You could not figure out who is who. People come and go. One person start an article yet someone else would finish it. In any academic book, this is chaotic. Yet, they were able to score the highest charity donation. Through chaos, they mobilized each other to successfully achieve their goal .Just like I imagine the bees work. A lot of chaotic incomprehensible buzz that results in the sweetest honey.
Later, during the revolution, I had a sense that the young faction leading the revolution were working in a similar spirit. I did not relate my sense to reality until Wael made his TED speech and mentioned "Like Wikipedia". It stroke me. Wikipedians have a different "mental paradigm" that make them so chaotic, yet so productive. That is when my thesis on "Wikipedian Controlling Instincts" came from! Later about this, for now, let me focus on my brag.
When the relationship between my sense and reality established, I jumped to my Gmail to see if Wael was involved in the Google Health Speaks projects. I did a quick search on the name, and found our 5 threads from Wael in my gmail archive. Unfortunately, I used to delete the old email, if I did not, I would have found more. But the important thing is that I had interactions with him... I had interactions with the Wael... it is a starnge feeling! Feel or pride... it is like saying I shock the hand of Martin Luther King... not once, but five times... even more!
Back to reality. My ego is full enough. When I made this discovery, I went back to the surviving Google Health Speak emails and went throught them. I was amazed to discover that most of the participants in the project were active in inducing and participating the revolution! Amazing. The spirit of working in a google-wikipedia environment is the same spirit that prevailed among the youth of the Egyptian revolution. Not necessarily the same spirit that has driven the other revolution. Somehow different. I will address my observations in another blog. For now, let me enjoy the feeling that I had an interaction with Wael Ghoneim and the other young Egyptian revolutionaries, through a connectivist-like approach.
I leave you with Wael's TED presentation:
First, let me brag: I am proud that I have had direct contact with Wael Ghoneim, the leader of the young revolution.Last year, I was part of Google's Health Speaks project that donates to charity based on translating Wikipedia Health articles from English to another language. I joined the Arabic project. Except for me, all the participants were Egyptians. I was amazed how chaotically organized they were. I say it is a positive note. You could not figure out who is who. People come and go. One person start an article yet someone else would finish it. In any academic book, this is chaotic. Yet, they were able to score the highest charity donation. Through chaos, they mobilized each other to successfully achieve their goal .Just like I imagine the bees work. A lot of chaotic incomprehensible buzz that results in the sweetest honey.
Later, during the revolution, I had a sense that the young faction leading the revolution were working in a similar spirit. I did not relate my sense to reality until Wael made his TED speech and mentioned "Like Wikipedia". It stroke me. Wikipedians have a different "mental paradigm" that make them so chaotic, yet so productive. That is when my thesis on "Wikipedian Controlling Instincts" came from! Later about this, for now, let me focus on my brag.
When the relationship between my sense and reality established, I jumped to my Gmail to see if Wael was involved in the Google Health Speaks projects. I did a quick search on the name, and found our 5 threads from Wael in my gmail archive. Unfortunately, I used to delete the old email, if I did not, I would have found more. But the important thing is that I had interactions with him... I had interactions with the Wael... it is a starnge feeling! Feel or pride... it is like saying I shock the hand of Martin Luther King... not once, but five times... even more!
Back to reality. My ego is full enough. When I made this discovery, I went back to the surviving Google Health Speak emails and went throught them. I was amazed to discover that most of the participants in the project were active in inducing and participating the revolution! Amazing. The spirit of working in a google-wikipedia environment is the same spirit that prevailed among the youth of the Egyptian revolution. Not necessarily the same spirit that has driven the other revolution. Somehow different. I will address my observations in another blog. For now, let me enjoy the feeling that I had an interaction with Wael Ghoneim and the other young Egyptian revolutionaries, through a connectivist-like approach.
I leave you with Wael's TED presentation:
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
TEDx: An effective Teacher must be less helpful
Watch Dan Meyer video (11 min). He is advocating teaching Math in a new way where students define the problem. One interesting outcome he suggests is that teachers should be “less helpful”… How can being less helpful more effective in teaching!? Could this concept be applied in subjects other than Math? What are your thoughts?
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