Comments on: Two brilliants talks on education http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/2007/12/21/two-brilliants-talks-on-education/ About David Weinberger's book (May, 2007) and how we're pulling ourselves together now that we've blown ourselves to bits Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:37:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Joel Palatnik http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/2007/12/21/two-brilliants-talks-on-education/comment-page-1/#comment-43438 Joel Palatnik Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:55:05 +0000 http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/2007/12/21/two-brilliants-talks-on-education/#comment-43438 Dear Sir/ Madam, I came across your information on the web and I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce you to our company and services with the objective of earning your consideration and hopefully your business. I don’t want to bore you with a long e-mail since I know your time is valuable so allow me to get to the point. Who we are: Translators, Inc. has provided clients around the globe with professional foreign language translation, e-Learning solutions and consulting services since 1991. The company has grown to 15 offices in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. Our service offerings include document & manuals translation, web site localization and foreign language content management, foreign language e-Learning course customization, subtitling, voiceovers, interpreting, brand name research, DTP/typesetting and proofreading. Regards, Joel Palatnik VP Business Development Translators, Inc. 1250 East Hallandale Beach Blvd. Suite 902 Hallandale Beach, FL 33009 T. 954-454-1242 T. 866-372-7373 F. 866-721-1326 C. 305-788-3002 E. joel@translators.com W. www.Translators.com Dear Sir/ Madam,

I came across your information on the web and I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce you to our company and services with the objective of earning your consideration and hopefully your business.

I don’t want to bore you with a long e-mail since I know your time is valuable so allow me to get to the point.

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]]> By: Chris Judson http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/2007/12/21/two-brilliants-talks-on-education/comment-page-1/#comment-40235 Chris Judson Tue, 25 Dec 2007 01:34:10 +0000 http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/2007/12/21/two-brilliants-talks-on-education/#comment-40235 I'm not sure if these are great examples of applications of your book to education...frankly, I was hoping for something new from each of these keynotes. Instead, it's about the same thing that technology folk have been telling educators for awhile: use the new stuff and it'll make your students jump higher, run faster. And, to suggest that "having students teach other students" is another over-used phrase that sounds good in theory, but is really impractical. For example (and it's an extreme one): imagine one of the tech greats (e.g Bill Gates, Steve Woz or Steve Jobs) in high school teaching other students...it wouldn't happen. Why? Because sometimes really smart people just need to work by themselves (it's called "rebellion"). Overall, I'm hoping for a better mash-up with the ideas of _Everything is Misc_ and education (and we didn't even define which level...sorry about that). Thanks for the post...got me thinking on Xmas evening whiles _It's A Wonderful Life_ was on. Peace, Chris I’m not sure if these are great examples of applications of your book to education…frankly, I was hoping for something new from each of these keynotes. Instead, it’s about the same thing that technology folk have been telling educators for awhile: use the new stuff and it’ll make your students jump higher, run faster.

And, to suggest that “having students teach other students” is another over-used phrase that sounds good in theory, but is really impractical. For example (and it’s an extreme one): imagine one of the tech greats (e.g Bill Gates, Steve Woz or Steve Jobs) in high school teaching other students…it wouldn’t happen. Why? Because sometimes really smart people just need to work by themselves (it’s called “rebellion”).

Overall, I’m hoping for a better mash-up with the ideas of _Everything is Misc_ and education (and we didn’t even define which level…sorry about that). Thanks for the post…got me thinking on Xmas evening whiles _It’s A Wonderful Life_ was on.

Peace,
Chris

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