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I have some water and some stones - but the soup would be a lot better.. If you could contribute a little... Visitors enter the
GLOBAL VILLAGE ONE link to GVS (Global Village Schools)
GLOBAL VILLAGE TWO link to second page of GVS
HOME PAGE GVS Global Village
PONY EXPRESS and the telegraph Smart Schools, Smart Kids DUMB SYSTEMS
PFLAUM Peter's home page
(HOMEPAGE) and are welcomed with an introduction to who we are and what this is.
They enter the one-room school house and there is a click able map (diagram).
The work stations are labeled by topics - the one I want to build first is cooperative learning - ideas and examples. Another, I was talking to Kim about today could be in-service training for Accountants. Stef maybe wants to do one on science for Schools.
There is "
The thinking room", where people can discuss what they want to create.
There is a chat-room or faculty lounge for general topics. Anyone or any group can start their own work station.
Once a work station has been established on Doing Https/
http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title04/0423.htm Using language similar to that for social services in the SS Act.. From the sums appropriated ( or by entitlement as it used to be ) and the allotment under this subpart, subject to the conditions set forth in this section, the Secretary ( DOE ) shall from time to time pay to each State that has a plan developed in accordance with regulations an amount equal to 75 per centime of the total sum expended under the plan in meeting the costs of State, district, county, or other local basic educational instructional services.
The federal government will pay 75 % of teachers salaries and benefits ( involved in direct instruction = about 2.5 million teachers @ $ 30,000 = 75 billion ) and left to the states and local school boards, all the other costs - administration, football, transportation, construction, utilities, then: We could become a modern civilized society with a world class school system, social justice, economic growth, and political democracy.
There could be substantial tax relief on property taxes - standards set for teacher certification - much better salaries for some low paid teachers and salary grades for high performing teachers tied to the GS federal scales:http://www.seemyad.com/gov/salary.htm
The big problems in American Public education are:
There is no career stream for classroom teachers - pay is only based on seniority and there is not much difference if you stay in instruction from start to finish.
There has been a vast growth in administrative overhead from 15 % in the 1960's to 50 % today so increases in resources are absorbed by overhead. In the last decade there has been a vast underhanded growth in ESE ( special education ) from 5 % of population to 25 % and a jungle of paperwork without functional outcomes.
The labeling of students make standards even harder - ESE students are not counted or counted differently - so if someone doesn't learn they are learning disabled and labeled - given more resources - and excluded from the testing of school outcomes.
There has been for decades weak support for standards - support in general but backing off when the tire hits the road and students actually FLUNK and are held back! Standards means that teachers have to teach content - multiplication tables, spelling, parts of speech, geography, algebra - not always fun and often hard - and student have to do their homework.Teachers can be tied to the GS 4 to GS 12 depending on performance - and the DOD ( Military base schools ) teacher pay scales as a base with districts able to do add ons.
webword
is a place for tools that maybe needed to work on it from home.
The work stations will have a library, a message center, and posted work programs.
The members of each group create their own on-line text books - on cooperative education, on accounting practices, on photography, on whatever people want. Instead of menu driven it's propelled by participation. Someone finds a neat sight and informs the others and posts the information on the BBS. Notes can be read by anyone and E-mailed to the participants. New pages can be added from a distance. It is a real network of people working together to create their own information universe. Others then can come use and maybe contribute. It is organic more like a soup than a stack of cards.
The clicks are to search
engines more so than fixed lists
The bookmarks are public domain so you can see where the others have been - bookmarks contain space for comments and reviews.
The group fees are by membership and rates per mgb. Visitor can look around but not contribute of get some documents unless they join. (Pay tuition for classes, or join to help construct). Classes are a work station.
The lecture notes, sound and pictures on file. Papers are sent in message boxes and group discussions are held in meeting rooms.
The class build its own curriculum which then is used by the next class. I have 15 exercises and reading and explorations I would like to set up in a work station call "Soc Rel" social relations, another on family relations, children, pets, food, whatever...Sufi surfing .. Music..
The idea for building a
GLOBAL-VILLAGE-SCHOO LHOUSE were presented in the Fifth Discipline, Strategies and tools for building a Learning Organization, Center for Organizational learning MIT/Slone School of Management; Peter Senge director.
The four primary stages of a learning cycle are;
1.)
Doing ( some kind of need - interest ) gathering information
2.)
Reflecting - thinking and feeling about needs and interests - hypothesis
3.)
Making Connections - plans - working theory - discussions and language construction ( building common visions)
4.) Decisions -
coordination - setting goals
The fifth dimension is
General Systems - the synergy of whole systems - dynamic and open
The art of team building, and sharing - continuous change -
The WWW can be constructed as a "
learning system" clearly where is whole is more than the sum of the parts as organic open system.
The resources (information, contacts, text, pictures, sounds, messages, et al) can be organized within a structure that brings sequential order to individual and group efforts.
I am interested in building and having you build paths into the WWW. I am interested in explorers that mark trails and leave notes and guides for the next people who come this way again. Lets start with cooperative learning, group activities involving people separated at a distance.
First we have a place to meet (chat room ) and proposals are made. A group is formed to go out and explore.
They return with some step
#1 information - sites, key words which are put into the guide book -
#2 Open discussion on the goals, process, what is there and not there, where do we go from here ?
3.) Collective plans - building a common vision. How do we evolve systems of learning, and structure individual and collective intelligence in a continuous process ?
4.)
Guid e books, query methods, maps, places to ask., people to visit, LEWIS AND CLARK -
5.) Systems analysis of the process itself and relationships of the growing whole.
Since the process is interactive we doing know when we start how it will be.
The first few times it will take patience. We have to cut our own trails. One idea would be on the "Sustainable"; - In general system terms biological systems tend to exponential growth only restricted by negative feedback - (
Like in Central Africa). Balance is a dynamic process of each genetic organism pushing its limits and being pushed back by environmental factors and competition. Human evolution through social technology has temporarily pushed the limits on a planetary scale.
The Club of Rome report in the 1960's may not be wrong only a little off in timing.
(Limits to Growth = sudden collapse of whole systems )
There are no moral problems, or political problems, or economic problems, scientific or technical problems but real problems - which come with all these considerations. For academic and technical reasons, we have divided reality up into departments. (one problem is that the liberal arts have been pushed out by specialist)
The blind are feeling the elephant - with CAT scanners, satellites, remote probes, macro and micro models - but they do not understand the nature of elephants?
Books and materials a REVIEW:
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT, 84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Wallace, Anthony F.C " The
Death and Rebirth of the Seneca," New York Vintage Books
1972
Part ONE Part
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York Summit Books 1992
Deming, W. E. (1986). "Out of the Crisis". Cambridge, MA : Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "
Humankind" becoming Human
Maslow, National Training Center "Higher Reaches of Human
Behavior and Motivation" B-values (being )
Fiske, Edward B. "Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools Work" (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B. "
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991)
The Next American Frontier (New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M. "
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization" (New York, Doubleday 1990)
Sergiovanni, T.J. "Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of School Improvement" (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and
Moore, J.H. "Schooling for Tomorrow: (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
GOALS OF THE GLOBAL-VILLAGE-SCHOOLHOUSE
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible - ungraded - students learn at their own style and pace. NOT: X, NOT Y, and but Z -
X =
The factory,
Y =
The Human Relations (personality) other-directed IBM type - PR tries to make people feel they participate and have power (but its not quite real) -
Z is letting go - in class giving up teacher talk - using free groups and active learning. Students learn what they want to learn -
Teachers guide and advise students (workers) more than transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use information. Teaching students not subjects Group theory from Mankarenko's, Anton Gorki Colony. (another reading) "
The Road to Life" -
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of caring - sincerity - honest - character - principles of the Z theory principles; not another management system like (MBO) but a shift in power and control. Responsibility and freedom.
involves "body knowledge" a focus of the mind - being in the world and not of it - higher awareness - the dancer becomes the dance - the lost of self-conscience.
The still quiet voice guides us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect -
Facts follow vision -
Logos, http://www.wiredbrain.com/documents/pathos/, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge (ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge ( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
The global context - Earth values?
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