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| Double Moon Shot (the visual version) Preparing for a global economy by listening to Thomas Friedman Thomas Friedman (1) While we were focused on the War on Terror, the “playing field” has been leveled. The advantages that I have as a US consumer are in jeopardy. Anyone working in a labor-intensive industry can have at least part of that labor replaced by cheaper, more efficient and better trained labor in Asia. Thomas Friedman (14b) A great national project: We need young people to be reenergized about going into science and engineering. It's the moon shot of our generation. It's to make America energy independent. The President could say: “This is going to be our national goal. I want every young person to go into math and science and make their contribution for hybrid vehicles and alternative energies.” You could energize a whole generation. George Bush could do it. It would be his "Richard Nixon to China." Remember S_ _tni_? When was it? Answer below ------------------------------------------------ It’s easy to lose focus “Rigor, relevance relationships, small schools.” -- Bill Gates What’ missing? Outsourcing… Labor- Intensive Industries Cheaper, better service, better educated How do we respond to Outsourcing? …By reinventing our schools A blacksmith (1) “I liked to read, I got good grades, but math bored me. When I was in the factory, fractions made sense. When I started studying iron working, decimals made sense.” A blacksmith (2) “I am very visual. I can go into a fog when I read. Even today I can be reading for 20 minutes and suddenly I realize that I remember nothing I’ve looked at.” A blacksmith (3) “I didn’t always enjoy school, yet here I am teaching and writing. In fact, my writing is an important part of how I teach and I’m proud of how I communicate.” Museum Director (1) “Some people are on a straight path. They know exactly what they want to do. They study the right courses and get the right internship and they go into their chosen career….and other people are on a spiral path.” Museum Director (2) “Then there are people who are on a spiral path. They go in the wrong direction, then take go somewhere else, then return to discover a career that they never imagined that they would pursue.” Museum Director (3) (So, are you a Free Agent?) “Sure. I spent 20 minutes this morning at my grandchild’s school. I have the responsibility to get involved in my grandchild’s life – and that’s part of my career, too.” Gift Shop owner (1) (So you are an agent of innovation) “There’s great opportunity in helping these artists get to an audience. Many of them are still learning to market themselves. Others are savvy but they welcome my input.” Gift Shop owner (2) (The art of marketing) “Many artists are savvy about the marketplace, but they prefer to let me do what I do well. They can focus on their art. They welcome my input.” That’s how we can respond. (innovation) How will other countries respond to Asia? What does L_b_r want? Benedict Arnolds? Bangalore Call Centers cheaper better more efficient 5 Parts of the Double Moon Shot Something for all of us Education is Everyone’s Business I know that if a movement is to go forward, those who would advance it must build on the past rather than start over again and again. My hope is that this book can provide a jumping-off place: Not just theory, but theory attached to a real school, to real people. The model is flexible and it is exactly what kids need. --Dennis Littky It’s your business, too. “I’ve seen that slogan so many times, I begin to turn my head away now when people tell me that education is everyone’s business.” Why is education everyone’s business? If you’re not inventing the next gadget that the world will buy, then you can be inspiring the next kid who will invent that gadget. You’re a teacher, mentor, educator. “Since education is everyone’s business, there are lots of people to cover for me.” If that’s your conclusion, then I didn’t state the case clearly enough for you. There is someone in this room who will take this message to other groups, reinterpret the information, and inspire others. The session closes with a quotation about the Ride of Paul Revere Ride, ride, though the night is cold Ride, ride, till the truth is told Ride, ride like that man of old Ride like Paul Revere I wonder if 200 years ahead if we will ride or if we'll stay in bed if faith and freedom within us die and then we hear the midnight cry and the hoofbeats across the moonlit sky will we ride with Paul Revere? --------------------------------------- Answers (SPUTNIK) 1957 Call 954 646 8246 to schedule my presentation or to request materials if you would likke to adapt and present this speech to your association. REMEMBER, Paul Revere did not ride alone. You heard the cry, just as I heard the cry, and Thomas Friedman was just passing on what he heard. Will we stay in bed or will we ride? This presentation is inspired by the works of Clyde Prestowitz, Dan Pink, Marshall Thurber, Thomas Friedman, W. Edwards Deming, Lee Brower, Dennis Littky (www.BigPicture.org), Dawn Elrad and multiple learning styles, Howard Gardner, Pat Harris and her web site pat-harris.com, and others. Special consideration should be made to thin about the contribution made by Marla Ruzicka, who created www.CIVICWorldwide.org Dennis Yuzenas www.WhatDoYaKnow.com Lee Brower www.EmpoweredWealth.com Another view of ADD Variable Attention Ability by Marshall and Steve |
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Thomas Friedman used the phrase "Double Moon Shot" in April 2005 on the Tim Russert interview TV show. He might have written that phrase before that moment, but that's certainly a very public forum for expressing the idea that there are two challenges of the current decade. This decade's adult population will be evaluated by the next generation -- and their assessment of us will be based on how we respond to these two big questions: "What did you do, adult, to reduce our country's dependence on oil?" and "What did you do, adult, to make schools better?", especially after learning that Bill Gates, a non-educator, entered the debate about education and points to the need for small schools to deliver relevance and relationships? Just in case anyone accuses Thomas Friedman of not stating the case clearly, here is a column in September, five months after the Russert interview, stating again the concept of the moon shot. September 21, 2005 Bush's Waterlogged Halo By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Following President Bush's speech in New Orleans, many U.S. papers carried the same basic headline: "Bush Rules Out Raising Taxes for Gulf Relief." The president is planning to rely on "spending cuts" instead to pay for rebuilding New Orleans. Yeah, right - and if you believe that, I have some beachfront property in Biloxi I'd like to sell you. The underlying message of all these stories is that the Bush team sees no reason to change course in response to Katrina. I beg to differ. Katrina deprived the Bush team of the energy source that propelled it forward for the last four years: 9/11 and the halo over the presidency that came with it. The events of 9/11 created a deference in the U.S. public, and media, for the administration, which exploited it to the hilt to push an uncompassionate conservative agenda on tax cuts and runaway spending, on which it never could have gotten elected. That deference is over. If Mr. Bush wants to make anything of his second term, he'll have to do his own Nixon-to-China turnaround, reframe the debate and recast the priorities of his presidency. He seems to think that by offering to spend billions of dollars to rebuild one city, New Orleans, he'll get his leadership halo back. Wrong. Just throwing more borrowed money at New Orleans is not leadership. Mr. Bush needs to frame a new agenda for rebuilding all our cities and strengthening the nation as a whole. And what should be the centerpiece of a policy of American renewal is blindingly obvious: making a quest for energy independence the moon shot of our generation. The president should have done that on the morning of Sept. 12, 2001. The country was ready. But the president whiffed. Katrina - nature's 9/11 - has given him a rare do-over. Imagine - I know it is a stretch - that the president announced tomorrow that he wanted an immediate 50-cents-a-gallon gasoline tax - the "American Renewal Tax," to be used to rebuild New Orleans, pay down the deficit, fund tax breaks for Americans to convert their cars to hybrid technology or biofuels, fund a Manhattan Project to develop alternatives for energy independence, and subsidize mass transit systems for our major cities. And imagine if he tied this to an appeal to young people to go into science, math and engineering for the great national purpose of making us the greenest nation on the planet, to help liberate us from dependence on the worst regimes in the world for our oil and to help ease the global warming that is heating up the oceans, making our hurricanes more intense and our lowlands more vulnerable. America's kids are hungry to be challenged for some larger purpose, which has been utterly absent in this presidency. Americans will change their long-term energy habits, and companies will develop green products, only if they are certain the price of gasoline will not go back down. A gasoline tax (Americans have already shown they'll tolerate higher prices) and stronger regulation would force U.S. companies to innovate in what is going to be one of the most important global industries in the 21st century: green technologies. By coddling our auto and industrial companies when it comes to mileage standards and the environment, all the Bush team is doing is ensuring that they will be dinosaurs and that Chinese, Japanese and Indian companies will take the lead in green technologies - because they have to and ours don't. Look what Jeff Immelt, the C.E.O. of G.E., said: "America should strive to make energy and environmental practices a national core competency and by doing so, create exports in jobs. ... America is the leading consumer of energy. However, we are not the technical leader. Europe today is the major force for environmental innovation. European governments have encouraged their companies to invest [in] and produce clean power technologies. The same is true for nuclear power. ... And government policy that encourages this with subsidies and other incentives is giving European companies a leg up. While Europe has been a driver for innovation, China promises to be its market." Setting the goal of energy independence, along with a gasoline tax, could help to solve so many of our problems today - from the deficit to climate change and national security. And Americans would pay it if they thought the extra money was going to renew America, not Iran, and not just New Orleans. And if the Texas-oilman president became the energy-independence president - now, that would snap heads and make this a truly relevant presidency. No way, you say. Probably right. But either Mr. Bush does a Nixon-to-China or his next three years are going to be a Bush-to-Nowhere. 100 billion gallons of gasoline are used annually in the US economy. a 50-cent tax would raise $50 billion annually. |
| If you are looking for a one-paragraph list of "what's the problem, what can we do about it?" here it is: What's the problem? SOURCING: Friedman and others (Prestowitz, Dan Pink) have pointed to the shift of manufacturing jobs to Asia. Jobs can be moved to another state and the impact is just as severe as if the jobs went to China. 1. Hundreds of thousands of factory workers need to be retrained. (funds are needed) 2. Trainers need to reach out to groups and individauls who are reacting from fear (fear of losing power, fear of losing a job, fear of losing control of a group) 3. Friedman has pointed to INNOVATION as our economy's savior -- are you committed to innovating? Do you replace a refrigerator with the most energy-efficient model, or do you save money or use an energy-guzzler? 4. We clean up messes: Remember Marla Ruzicka and CIVICworldwide.org ... wherever there is conflict, innocent victims are caught in the crossfire. To avoid creating new enemies, there is a need for continual refunding of the "campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict" (CIVIC) (funds are needed) 5. EDUCATION: Bill Gates has given voice to research found in Big Picture Schools and other independent private schools such as the Waldorf system. Relevance and Relationships are the other two legs of the education stool that go with Rigor. It is our vote for small schools that makes the Three Rs more likely. It is our time to get into schools as mentors and speakers and volunteers that makes it possible 6. Mentors speak to children. Many students love to watch TV. Let's give them something to watch. Recommend a book that make reading fun for you. Recommend a book that changed the way you looked at the world. Recommend something that you learned OUTSIDE school that you found useful (HYDROPLANING!). What can we do about it? a) raise funds. How about starting with Democracy Bonds? democracybonds.com b) learn more about the double moon shot by listening c) learn more about BigPicture.org schools by visiting their web site and watching the interviews with Dennis Littky. www.WhatShouldStudentsLearn.com click on "GATES" d) reforming the educational system will take funds and time. We will need to spend time as mentors, raise money to build walls inside big schools and create small schools, and build emotional intelligence in our students, especially by Building International Bridges by the Internet www.BuildingInternationalBridges.com e) support smaller schools. If your child is in a school LARGER than 500 students, remember what Dennis Littky says: Every school says that they respect kids. If you give kids work that is not important, you're not respecting them. I think my frustration with the world is that in many suburban districts where parents move to send their kids and the students come home with their As and Bs, the parents are satisfied, but they never look deeper, so they think those are good schools. They have the highest SAT scores, they have the most kids going to Ivy League colleges. Those kids are losing too. They are not dropping out because they are playing the game. When you ask them, "Have you made any decisions in school? Do you care about anything, are you passionate about anything that goes on during the day besides drama club or football after school?" They're getting the short end. They aren't allowed to get engaged with their work and go deeper. "My kid did well at that school." Yeah, but where could your kid really go if your kid got to work with a doctor in 9th grade, following her around, and really going in depth? Yes, there are a lot of web sites to read. This is our continuing education. Action flows from information. If we are committed to a renewed country and a renewed planet, we will take time to turn off the entertainment and focus on the double moon shot. How will we pay for the double moon shot? RETURN TO DemocracyBonds.com Return to the Double Moon Shot.com Go to WhatShouldStudentsLearn.com Dennis Littky and Big Picture Schools Contact another person in another country via YAHOO.com or AIM or MSN messenger... |