Second School Network

My 125th article in the series - this one inspired by conversations with Miles "High-Def" Davis, Adam Clayton Powell III, and Paul Stephen Prueitt

If We're Truly in the Knowledge Age, Why Is Higher Education in Crisis? Clearly, both traditional college degrees and specialized trade certifications are too narrow and fragmented to fully prepare students for what lies ahead. For now, a hybrid system is emerging that balances the arts and the sciences, augmented by one or more areas of specialization. KM's multidiscip...

Secondary education and workforce transformation at the grassroots level, and leading the way is….

Pakistan!

Had a great session with students and faculty of the Rehan School– the questions they asked were in many ways more challenging than what I get when conducting workshops with college-degreed professionals

Keep an eye on what’s happening in this country and its burgeoning young entrepreneurial population, its incubators, and schools

These young walas and walis are ready, willing and able to succeed in an AI World, and are an excellent example of what’s possible for any nation, so-called “developing” or otherwise…

And speaking of having many more than five or six senses…Grammy Award-winning artist Lenny Kravitz definitely uses them…

“Ideas flit through space, and my job is to be an antenna, to capture them. I’m trying to pick up on what’s floating out there. It’s given to me, and my job is to make it happen. I’ll play all the instruments, do what I have to do. But it came from somewhere else. Didn’t come from me…”

How Lenny Kravitz Keeps Flying A look at Lenny Kravitz’s journey, from his groundbreaking music career to his global design projects, and how he stays inspired through it all.

As the evolution of computer technology continues to rapidly advance into the quantum realm, we as humans need to jump-start the acceleration of our own evolution, which has been stuck in neutral for far too long

We can start by breaking free of the limiting and false belief that we only have five senses, when in fact we have dozens more, afferent, efferent, and both, waiting to be re-awakened…

h/t Dr Martin

Human Evolution in a Digital World Human senses play a critical role in group interaction and collaboration, a key aspect of KM.

Great article by former NASA Director Dan Goldin about the cognitive debt we’ve been accumulating alongside the so-called “evolution” of technology

His reference to the slide rule, which I used in my engineering studies and early work days, is a great case in point in that it presents a visualization of the nonlinear scales involved, a whole-brain-thinking element mostly missing from today’s education and work environments

Now that I’m all fired up about this, just for fun, I’m going to dig up my old Smith Chart slide rule…gee, thanks, Dan! 😅

SLOUCHING TOWARD SLOPOCALYPSE Which way, America? Slouching toward slopocolypse, or striving for the stars?

When done the right way, humans and AI working together perform better than either one alone – welcome to the wild, wonderful world of...cognitive ecosystems
https://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Columns/The-Future-of-the-Future/A-System-of-Systems--With-a-Twist-171181.aspx

A System of Systems With a Twist Many long-standing technologies such as swarm intelligence, biomimicry, neural networks, and the like are now being stitched together. Think of what could happen if each of those technologies interacted not only with each other but also with the environment at large, its living and artificial elemen...

In a world increasingly obsessed with AI, we have the opportunity to tap into a far more powerful, quantum-level technology for acquiring knowledge at the deepest level

We're talking about the human neurophysiology, including all twelve cranial senses, and potentially many more extra-cranial senses enabled by over 3 dozen additional pairs of nerves

Best of all…it’s free!

It’s also extremely user-friendly, requiring only two easy steps:
1) Go out into a quiet spot in nature in the presence of negative ions, and free of 60Hz and any of the Gs (4G, 5G, 6G, etc.)
2) Be still

Rinse and repeat…

It’s been said many times: "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it" – yet here we are

What if instead of just reading about it, we were to experience history as it actually unfolded…

Life in the Virtual Trenches Immersive Learning - The applications in education are obvious. But you can build use cases for almost any domain.

Thanks Edwin Morris for a stimulating, evocative conversation as part of your “Because you need to know” podcast series

As you might imagine, once the floodgates were opened, the knowledge flowed freely and abundantly! 🙂

“Combine human and machine intelligence so we can accomplish something far greater than either one alone…”

Highlights include…
- Excessive consumption, its unsustainability, and the potential pitfalls of mechanizing society and removing humanistic elements

- The need for balance between artificial and natural human intelligence, emphasizing the non-deterministic nature of human society and the need for freedom

- An introduction to the ancient culture named 'Search of Light and Knowledge,' and its transition from an oral tradition to written form over many thousands of years, while meticulously perpetuating the full depth and breadth of ancient, time-invariant knowledge

- An exploration of how ancient societies developed a deep awareness of nature without modern tools, emphasizing their intrinsic connection to the environment

- And perhaps most important both now and into the future, integrating an understanding of, and our deep connection with, natural systems into educational curricula

Smart System: Nature and Sustainable Societies with Art Murray It was October, 1993. To Art Murray, these were exciting times. He'd just arrived in Moscow and saw firsthand the artillery damage to the Russian Parliament ...

And speaking of busting loose from old Industrial Age education paradigms... https://www.actonacademy.org/

Acton Academy | One-room schoolhouses for the 21st century. The Acton Academy is dedicated to inspiring each child to see life as a Hero's Journey, where someone with curiosity and character can find a 'calling', using his or her most precious gifts, in a way that brings great joy, to solve a deep burning need in the world.

Want to become better at learning?

Then get up out of your chairs and start moving, activating your proprioceptors and getting back in touch with nature and yourself

And quit worrying about AI taking over – AI will never be able to experience or take advantage of the flow of endorphins that comes not only from exercise but also from any activity that involves activating one or more of the twelve senses

But it’s something we humans will lose if we allow ourselves to atrophy both physically and mentally in two-dimensional learning spaces…

Knowledge Through Motion Although large bodies of research have identified mind-body-environment connections, much of this research remains untapped and underutilized.