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Project Global Cooling Concert | a moment of clarity.

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:20:37 -0000

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Last Saturday, I went to a concert by a club called Project Global Cooling (PGC). Under the guidance of Clay Burell, its advisor, PGC is a global club held in 6 other countries around the world. The PGC concert was not only held in Korea, but in other countries, all dedicated to stopping global warming, and encourage “global cooling” (Hence, the name). It was held at a place called The Spot in a place near Hongik University in central Seoul. The lineup consisted of Rated-E, Jeong Joo, Poppa Midnight, Kong 151, E.X.Plosive, Dog Soup, and ABC Analysis.

Photo credits to Annie Park

Though there were many students and people that attended the crowd, the crowd was seemed mainly indifferent most of the concert, as the concert attendance was mainly supplied by the incentive of extra credit, instead of passion and fervor for music.

Next, featured Dog Soup, which is another one of Bushnell’s bands. At this point, I couldn’t really listen to music properly, as the members in the PGC club were limited, so I went to the back of the club to help the other members of the undermanned PGC club. Patrick Nam looked especially tired. But from what I heard, Dog Soup exhibited the same style of music as Poppa Midnight, with some extra members included. The generation gap was sealed again by Bushnell, and the night’s surprise came when Clay Burell (advisor of PGC) came up to the stage to sing the last song himself. Though not the type to sing any song at all, Burell surprised everyone in the whole club with his surprising singing skills, and his appearance really fired up the crowd. In terms of musical technicality and talent, Poppa Midnight and Dog Soup probably comes out on top, as they get paid to perform in clubs in Itaewon during weekends.

All in all, the concert was much better organized than I ever dreamed it to be. When I originally heard about this concert last year, I thought it would be near impossible to organize everything, but in doing it, they also inspired me to join their club next year. It seems to be as if this will be a traditional event that will be held by KIS for the years to come.

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Saving the World in Study Hall - New York Times

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:58:45 -0000

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blog of proximal development » Blog Archive » Virtual Classroom Project Reflection

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:17:15 -0000

Konrad on Leigh Blackall's SL project. Why am I thinking Project Global Cooling belongs in this world? Outstanding, Konrad!

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Leigh’s Project - A Brief Introduction

As soon as Leigh announced his plans for a virtual prototype of a learning space based on the principles of permaculture design I was hooked. I realized that, to Leigh, the Virtual Classroom Project presented an opportunity to address learning as a fundamental part of our daily existence. “Leigh’s ideas,” I wrote in my project notes, “suggest that he wants to explore the process of de-institutionalizing learning. He seems interested in asking why learning cannot be grounded in informal places, places that we take for granted, such as our homes.” But Leigh took this one step further. If our place of residence is to serve as a focal point of learning in our lives, then we need to start asking ourselves some crucial questions about the kinds of places we inhabit and the relationship between those places and the environment. In other words, Leigh believes that the process of de-institutionalizing learning cannot lead to creating places that are as insensitive to the natural world around them as the big institutions that currently dominate our lives and, specifically, education. One could extend this argument and ask “What exactly are children learning in a school that does not have a recycling programme? What are they learning in a building that’s surrounded by concrete?” I think that Leigh’s project effectively addresses both of these questions.

Leigh’s use of permaculture design, defined by Wikipedia as “an approach to designing human settlements, in particular the development of perennial agricultural systems that mimic the structure and interrelationship found in natural ecologies,” suggests that he is interested in exploring to what extent human beings can be engineers of their own self-sufficient and ecologically-friendly environments. His design revolves around the notion of sustainability

I've been trying to de-institutionalize learning within the institution, and it's a thankless task. Beginning to believe that I can do better outside of the institution. Already created models with Students 2.0 and Networked Learning class, student Skypecast interviews, YouthTwitter, etc. Want to keep pushing those. posted by cburell
Want to explore pulling Project Global Cooling into this. posted by cburell

What really fascinates me about Leigh’s prototype is that, in addition to making us think about sustainability and the environment, Leigh also explores the notion of de-institutionalizing or deschooling society. His project revives some of the key ideas of Ivan Illich. During our discussions over the past two weeks, Leigh’s comments about his design led me to re-visit my thoughts on informal education, lifelong learning, and community. Specifically, his ideas and the way he is implementing them remind me of Illich’s notion that institutions tend to dehumanize people and commodify learning. Consider this passage from Ilich’s Deschooling Society:

Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success. The pupil is thereby “schooled” to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is “schooled” to accept service in place of value (Illich, 1973).

In other words, our students tend to think that teaching equals learning. Learning and knowledge are commodified and transform education into a process of consumption rather than exploration. In addition, as Illich argues in Deschooling Society, schools discourage other institutions from assuming educative roles and tend to be places of confinement rather than liberating engagement. De-institutionalization, Illich argues, can take place when we recognize that education “relies on the surprise of the unexpected question which opens new doors for the inquirer and his partner.” This kind of inquiry can take place when the instructor abandons what Illich calls “skill drill” instruction and focuses on helping “matching partners to meet so that learning can take place.”

This is so in line with my networked learning elective class, trying to guide students to discover learning networks via Twitter and their own local networks. The downside: they're so institutionalized, they don't get it. Korea is probably the worst place to try this. posted by cburell

The most radical alternative to school would be a network or service which gave each man the same opportunity to share his current concern with others motivated by the same concern (Illich, 1973).

This Diigo highlight, plus Diigo groups, Twitter, and a million other alternatives ("radical") exist now. The question of certification still looms. How do we answer that? posted by cburell

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Vital signs of a warming world - Climate Change - MSNBC.com

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:43:33 -0000

Award-winning multimedia site on global warming.

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New Statesman - The road to wisdom

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:50:19 -0000

Education for Well-Being.

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Who’s to Blame for Global Warming?

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:18:05 -0000

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M-cmNdiFuI

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HUNTERLOVINS.COM

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:45:35 -0000

Natural Capitalism. William Farren.

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The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:16:20 -0000

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Hweemin, read this.
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Green Schools Alliance - Home Page

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:38:32 -0000

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The Alliance of Green Schools and Communities

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:37:48 -0000

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How to use WordPress to run a magazine, news website | Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:43:53 -0000

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Good resource for Project Global Cooling website.
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