you blog: grab your x-d glasses ....because x is going to inifinity

Friday, February 5, 2010

grab your x-d glasses ....because x is going to inifinity

here it is.. the thing that's so important that i'm losing sleep over...

a little visual hygiene happening... base content for understanding without teaching to the test - cool jets:

three different dimensions:

stationary circle: think ferris wheel. you get off exactly where you got on - no matter how long you ride. one route. one start. one stop. same relative location.

you're seeing with regular glasses. cake.

moving cycle: think bike wheel. you stick a tack in the wheel (don't actually do it) and ride to the store. trace the tack's location. even if it ended up on the same location of the wheel (say little hand two-o'clock) it didn't end up in the same relative location. for a bike, unlike a ferris wheel, different routes are possible - you can go more places that just to the store.

now you're seeing with regular glasses, but with a visual sense of relative location. tougher - but many get this.

networked sphere: think.... well just look....................

even if we insist that travels stay on the sphere (the rubber part of a hollow ball) relative locations are infinite. especially if the ball starts traveling/rolling. and what if we allow travel within the ball.

and now...you're seeing with x-d glasses as x goes to infinity.
(add on: for those liking the safety of boxes... think standardized individualism... of course i would call it standardized randomanium. just listened to sir ken call it organic.)

with me? i know.. more likely ahead of me

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Most people say that how we do school is cyclic... but they really mean circular. That's one reason change is so tough. People figure it's coming back around - to the same spot - so rather than waste energy... they'll just wait it out.

In reality, school has been cyclic... trends - quandaries - ideas ... do keep cycling around, but each time we've come further along the ride.

What very few get today - is that....

isn't only radically different... it's not coming back around. It's not even track-able.

While we were able to maintain status-quo in previous shifts/generations with little change.. this is an inevitable (it's happening with or without us) and drastic (exabyte-aly huge) change.

I don't know about you... but I'd rather my kids didn't miss it. Or have to learn it on their own time.

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Here's the thing...
if you're experiencing visual hygiene on this... if you get what ...

really is via the web

then you know we can/must make a change.

And I'm talking by next fall, (well actually by tomorrow but since we're not sleeping..next fall is tomorrow.. yes?)
x amount of tiny little school disruptions, as x goes to infinity... not to impossibility.

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Many are already disrupting class... if you're one of them... bravo..
So... are you networking that? Are you exponentiating that?

For the rest of us.... here's an option - a tiny little plan...

It's disruptive.. so cost and time are minimal... probably way less than you are spending on either now. The only catch is that you have to be brave enough to quiet the lizard brain.

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Dear Lizard Brain,

If we believe school needs to change because of the networking potential (people and info) of the web - that same belief/visual/understanding will take us right past your incessant nagging where you keep whispering in our ear...