Creating the Asian Autonomous Learning Industry - Is it the only way to solve the Asian and African education crisis? I think so...

My goals isn't to improve the edu condition, it is to ultimately solve Asian and African education crisis once and for all by creating the autonomous learning (AL) industry that will make schools and teachers mere accessories to learning and not requirements for learning. How we do this is simple... we create a multiple eSingularity Prize for Autonomous Learning Innovation to reward the innovation and creation of the AL technology that will radically transform global education and learning. This innovation or prize will NEVER come out of the West because it would be squished my Big Publishing and the extremely powerful teacher unions who will not allow AI in Western education out of the fear it will eliminate jobs - which is nonsense.

So I propose is that we work together on this... read http://bit.ly/50esKL My position is we run a pilot in KL, Malaysia... then we leverage KL success. The simple fact is, if we can raise $50m in KL, Malaysia for a Prize for AL, how much do u think we can raise in Dubai, Singapore, India, China? US investors would fund it too. Can we leverage the $50m into a $500m or higher Prize and as part of the requirement we have rights to use the IP that is developed and ultimately become the dominate group behind a yet to be established AL industry? The real money is not in the free public AL education I want to make available globally, but in the private AL industry that will completely change HR, workforce dev, certification programming etc... do you get it?

We need some little $$ to make this happen, I can raise the $50m, if I can meet with investors face-to-face. I am an experiences capital campaign director and I have a system in my possession that has raised over $1.6 billion for npos in the US using a feasibility/face-to-face solicitation system. With the right help we can move this in a massive way and you can either be part of it or watch it happen... if you know serial angel I want to talk to him.

Thoughts

Michael

eSingularity "education 3.0 autonomous learning (tm)"

Recently I presented at Barcamp Orlando and Sarasota. Both times I talked about education 3.0 the paradigm shift it will bring about. So what is education 3.0, the education singularity or eSingularity for short?  What will cause it and when will this moment happen? The paradigm shift that has to happen is this... we must view school and formal teaching as accessories to learning and not requirements for it. That shift is happening in the "At Home" movement that is sweeping across the US.  But the real innovation is set for Asia because the reality is they have an education crisis, not a problem like in the West. They can't build the needed schools or train enough teachers not meet current demand let alone future demand. So what is Education 3.0? It's a transition in to autonomous learning (tm).  Whats autonomous learning it is when a device becomes both your school and teacher. The iphone can become an autonomous learning device using Siri software. I should be able to tell Siri software what app I want and it should deliver it to me. It should also take into consideration my age and learning ability by asking and me responding to some simple questions. The age for autonomous learning is just around the corner and with it, provide the right folks develop it, eSingularity can happen. The opportunity is to make all learning free and accessible to all by funding the eSingularity Prize for Autonomous Learning that seeks to bring about 1000s of autonomous education solutions for a new global education paradigm that is built on multimedia content delivered and aggregated on wikitube.tv.

We are a nexus and the e3o-Tsunami or e3o-Sputnik headed our way will be far bigger in impact than 1000 industrial revolutions because it will mean for the first time human history that education becomes a natural right afforded to all and not just a few!

Reflections...

Reflections on being kicked out of TED Global 2010

 

TED is a forum for ideas worth spreading and in my opinion there is no better idea worth spreading than the idea of free education for all. The time has come to put it on the global agenda and bring it to pass. The fact is we have the technology, the connectivity and the content to deliver free math, science, and language arts education autonomously to anyone with connectivity. The things is, what I am proposing is a revolution that could very well sake up and bring down the global educational complex.  What I am proposing is taking education out of the hands of the few and putting it in the hands of the many. What I am suggesting is a radical shift in power and control. Ask yourself what would it mean if anyone could get a free 8th grade education in math, science and language arts autonomously? Because the reality is, if we can provide education autonomously to 8th grade we can provide it for all subject matter to any level. All of a sudden the $4.2 trillion educational complex that is built on controlling and selling knowledge has just lost its footing and is set to collapse. You see my idea is a radical solution that can irrevocably upset everything in society. Recently I found some great videos on education. Stephen Heppell talks about this approaching paradigm shift and how global education is set to be shook up in way we can't even imagine -- he is making the same predicament as me. Only I am tell you what the exact technology will be that will cause it.  Yong Zhao talks about how standardization just doesn't work, something I have been saying all along, and that what we need to do is allow individual communities to decide on the content. This is something that the solution I envision for global education will do. Alan November talks about redefining schools and what he proposed is dead on except we can take it further. A handheld autonomous mobile learning devices will be the immersive school of the future that will link global communities and allow collaborations way we are just now starting to explore.

So what did I do to piss off TED and in particular Bruno? Here is my point of view... I had applied to attend and was accepted to attend TED Global 2010 at a hefty cost of $4500 for a three day conference ticket. My thinking was if I am going to shell out $4500 I might as well campaign to get The eSingularity message out and do what all great athletes do and that is visualize doing it -- thus my video talks. My thinking was that even if I didn't get to talk folks will at least be educated to the reality that "And Now The Good News... We Can Educate the World." My gorilla self promotion and marketing approach wasn't appreciated by blue blooded TEDster Bruno, who saw me merely as a groundling using my TED invitation as a way to bring attention to my idea and share a message about global education that I think is important. He further didn't appreciate making his emails public. The reality is even TED isn't ready to present and share an idea that seeks to completely redefine the global education complex and they probably didn't appreciate my innovative way I am using to get the word out. 

 

Will my ejection from TED Global 2010 have any affect my efforts to bring about eSingularity? No. But, I can hope that maybe others will seriously look into my planned solution and that some media outlets might find it interesting enough to write a story about it and in the process provide me a venue to talk about how easy it is to flatten global education and provide everyone with connectivity with an autonomous education in math, science and language arts -- our beta. Bruno calls my action "a conspicuous breach of trust."  I call it open access to information. When I founded the Southern Shakespeare Festival as a college student, an event that attracted over 30k its inaugural year, I used every means possible to get the vision of the festival out.  In the process I pissed off powerful Florida State University, because I was trying to pressure their involvement in the festival, because I thought it was their duty to support it -- they didn't appreciate my heavy handed approach. Just as I think it is TEDs duty to support and promote the vision and scope of eSingularity and to bring the idea to a new level of exposure. I can't help the fact they are short sighted to see what it is I am seeking to do, and instead just are focused on silly me. All I can do is put eSingularity in their face and let them decide how they choose to handle it. The one thing I always regretted with SSF was that I never left a trail of bread crumbs on how I did what many saw was impossible for an undergrad to do with no experience in producing or raising money. My adventure to flattening global education is far more important and I plan to leave a ton of bread crumbs for anyone to follow. The thing is, eSingularity will happen, my goal is to bring it to pass far sooner than it would naturally occur, because a lot is at stake and in reality making all learning a natural human right for all is the only way that we will have any hope in saving humanity from ourselves.