Trout's Ted Nomination form.

 

link : Nominate Trout Video and Talk

link: http://www.ted.com/nominate/speaker

In order to help save you time, I have tried to pull together information that might help you in writing the nomination -- thanks. 

First Name of the Nominee *

Michael 

Last Name of the Nominee *

Trout

Telephone No.

202 360 4467

Email Address *

mjtrout @ gmail.com

Tell us briefly about the speaker: Occupation? Honors or distinctions? Recent work? Why are you recommending them? *

Trout is an Elementary School Teacher living and working In Japan he is also the Founder and Chief Evangelist at EDUIT, Inc. 

He founded TEDxFutureEd group, the eSingularity movement and the Southern Shakespeare Festival, he attended the Royal National Theatre Summer acting program and studied under Ian Mackellen and Alan Richman. Was on the cover of the Tallahassee Magazine for establishing the Southern Shakespeare Festival. He been working to get out EDUIT's vision for a global education solution for the last 9 years. In the last year he has made tremendous headway by establishing a top notch leadership team in India and a committee with over 130 members and support for his vision. 

I am nominating him because he has a vision that needs to be heard and proposes solution for global education that is timely, doable and achievable with current technology. 

http://bit.ly/EDUITIN India prospectus

http://bit.ly/180C5a e3.0 India committee 

Submitted nomination:

"Michael is a true visionary.  He sees connections that most people just plain miss.  When it comes to passion, there are few people I have encountered that even approach Michael's level.  Beyond that, he has been researching global education and inventing new ways to look at the entire issue, breaking through the barriers, both old and new... ultimately delivering a universal education platform that can link young people together to learn from each other as well as from uniquely-search-able multimedia web resources.

 

I have personal experience with Michael's delivery and his ability to communicate and get a vision across is powerfully unique. Powerful, exciting and engaging, and chock full of insight and depth. The world cannot do without a global education initiative that is deliverable and fundable. And Michael proposes one. "  

Please provide links to any articles or web pages about the speaker. 

http://www.eduit.org  EDUIT, Inc. web page

http://bit.ly/Sazsd.  blog post

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=90232&id=99826169818 -- past articles on Trout

http://www.youtube.com/user/Eduitorg -- over 80 videos of him talking

http://bit.ly/EDUITIN India prospectus

http://bit.ly/s5Mu8 China prospectus

http://www.google.com/profiles/mjtrout his Google profile 

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&ref=ts&gid=5430142028 -- EDUIT, Inc Facebook group.

Google: "Trout, EDUIT, eSingularity" for more

Have you heard this person speak publicly? If so, where? *

No, but he hold as a degree in acting and has performed and presented in front of 1000s at the Southern Shakespeare Festival.  Check out his YouTube videos, I think they are compelling. He is also a teacher and has to get up and perform everyday in front of his students.

Yes, at the Southern Shakespeare Festival he made many presentation and even performed in it. 

Please provide links to any online audio or video featuring the proposed speaker.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Eduitorg -- over 80 videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-5oPTyulDo -- together we can change the world. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXJtVwwJQM -- A message to America

If yes, please describe this person's speaking style.

Powerful and passionate verging on the evangelical. It is obvious from his videos he passionate about what he is doing and the message he want to share.  

How do you think this person would best fit with the conference theme, "And Now The Good News ..."?

The good news as Trout put's it, is that we can flatten global education and make if tree and accessible to all, and India or China will most likely lead the way. Trout has a clear vision on how to bring it about as he discusses in his India prospectus.  The good news is that the only thing stopping educaiton from bring free and accessible to all is a pervasive cultural paradigm that thinks that it cant be. He plans to change that and TED can help him do it.

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Help Trout attend Ted Global 2010.

Michael J. Trout, the founder of the vision of eSingularity and the one with the driving force to bring us together behind it has been accepted to attend Ted Global 2010 In Oxford.

eSingularity has begun are you joining?

That's right on July 31, 2009 the eSingularity Movement officially started and you can join it. Sign up now and make your voice be heard for flat global educaiton. Learn anything, anytime, anywhere. "Laaa"

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What the committment? Just 5 minutes a day! Make a post, twitter it, link it, share it. Just 5 minutes everyday! And dont forget to "Laaa" and smile because you know its coming!

Join the most exciting project of the 21st Century!

Michael J. Trout

a self appointed eSingularity dictator

"laaa" learn anything, anyplace, anywhere...education 3.0

I believe the world should commit itself to achieving the goal of flattening global education before the end of the next decade, of exploring and developing a free, complete education solution for all people of the world. So no matter who you are, or where you are, people can access the best education possible, for free!" -- Michael J. Trout, Founder EDUIT, Inc.

For over 3000 years "sage on the stage" Education 1.0 has dominated human culture. Education 2.0 is now emerging as schools, teachers and students start to utilize social networks and web 2.0 tools in education. Media 3.0 is coming and its coming fast! Education 3.0 will emerge as the possibly the most disruptive technology of the 21st century. Any time now a company could roll out an education solution that will completely redefine learning as we know it. The solution will emerge from media 3.0 and as social networking and distributed mutual media merges disconnected education systems into a single global distributed learning platform called e3.0. And when it does eSingularity will have happened. The moment in our history when all learning is done from one multimedia driven application. Uniting and plugging in all learners and educators into the same platform. Getting us there will take a eRevolution and I am its leader.

Imagine, being able to learn anything, anyplace, anywhere from multiple authorities from your XO, iphone, nintendo DSi, PSPi or any similar device. Imagine being able to play enticing e-games that reinforce the topic key points you just watched or reinforce knowledge from a week, month, or more than year ago; and as you do earn reward points for remembering, achieving goals and milestones, completing assignments and connecting with others in virtual classrooms all around the world. A lot of these technologies are emerging fragmented through out the web.

Imagine an environment where learning never stops and is free and accessible to all regardless of their social or economic disposition, funded, like Google, by back-end ad revenue; and like universities, by corporations wanting access to the best and the brightest minds just like sport teams do top athletes. What would top Institutions be willing to sponsor for a future Ed Witten, Plato, or Descartes to join their ranks? And don't forget the regional investors wanting to help their communities. Imagine the end of silly assessment tests, the demise of the bloated and abusive cert industry. Imagine how classes would change in schools and universities. The death of the sage on the stage forever! Where schools and universities become places for networking and applying knowledge and operate more like fraternal mentors competing to for top students like professional sport teams do for top athletes.

Imagine being able to quickly identify brilliant minds just by how they interact within an intelligent e-learning environment. Have you ever pondered how many great minds have starved to death? I have. Or been killed in ignorant conflicts? I have. This is just the beginning... There is far more. Education 3.0 will have tremendous impacts on human society, that are currently unimaginable because they lie on the other side of the new paradigm making them invisible for us to see at this time. The possibilities for society because of e3.0 are truly staggering. And their exists a real potential for abuse too. Apart from the obvious ones... Can you imagine an intelligent twitter reporting all your learning activities to the central government. I could imagine quite a few existing governments would like that...

We have spent 2 billion on Superconducting Super Collider that was never finished, 25 billion on a space station that has done what for humanity? and now billions on researching geo-engineering GW solutions... For what it cost to make the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a movie Hollywood has wanted to make for 50 years and couldn't-because they lacked the technology, we could develop, like Wikipedia did for web 2.0, the plug to usher in a new era for education where anyone can learn anything, anytime, anywhere.

All the technology is in place for e3.0 to happen, we need only to make the plug -- the Educational Singularity is upon us. The only question is when will we opt to build it? Who will build it? and who will control it?

We are looking for investors! Are you one of them? We are looking for top engineers and software developers are you one of them? We are looking for regional representatives are you one of them? -- Information to follow stay tuned!

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EDUIT, Inc a Washington DC 501(c)3 organization is behind the for profit/nonprofit eSingularity Initiative to flatten global education.

Posted via email from e3.0

The Future of Education... e3.0

So many say we are blinded by the speed technology is developing and we cant see where education is headed... as we try to focus in on the details we fail to see the big picture. But if only we took a step back and looked it would become pretty obvious. And I want to share it with you.

So what is eduction 3.0? In the simplest of terms, think of the education system as a power grid or in this case an instructional grid, where every participant plugs into it or doesn't. In the current 1.0 educations system all plugs are independent doing their own thing, its an inefficient system where no one knows whats going on with each plug: Is it getting enough current? is it even plugged in? is overloaded? or about to go into meltdown? Now imagine if all the plugs were data linked to an intelligent instructional grid via the Cloud (Internet). Hmm...

You know, our conventional plugs haven't changed for 100 years; in essence education plug hasn't changed in over 3000. Just as we will see intelligent plugs coming onto the market, the emergence of e3.0 is inevitable and comes down too just building the plug. Everything else is already in place. My goal is to promote the vision of a global intelligent distributed learning network--e3.0; raise awareness and support for it, and ultimately partner with others to build the plug. Join the e3.0 revolution -- change the world.