Posted on 25. Mar, 2009 by Cameron Reilly in General
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Children will no longer have to study the Victorians or the second world war under proposals to overhaul the primary school curriculum, the Guardian has learned.
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However, the draft plans will require children to master Twitter and Wikipedia and give teachers far more freedom to decide what youngsters should be concentrating on in classes.
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I hope this goes through in the UK and that it inspires the various state education departments in Australia lift their game. I’m still horrified at how little integration there is in my kids’ classroom with the net. At home they LIVE on the web, research on it, watching videos, play games, talk to their family and friends. At school, they get MINUTES on the web over the course of an entire week. It’s a joke.
Posted on 24. Mar, 2009 by Cameron Reilly in GDay World Live
Details here, although tonight we’ll be starting half an hour late (8.30pm QLD time) to accommodate Mr Nick Hodge who is doing a special edition of HIS live show this evening.
Posted on 24. Mar, 2009 by Cameron Reilly in General
My mate Ian Kath (
@iankath) who joined me on last week’s live podcast, does his own terrific podcast “Your Story”. I listened to his most recent episode where he interview Andrew Leavold, owner of Brisbane’s infamous “Trash Video”. It’s a terrific story about a guy with a passion for obscure films who realizes his dream to own a boutique video store but it’s more than that. Andrew also is making a documentary about forgotten Filipino “midget-xploitation” film star “Weng Weng”. You have to check out the clips on Ian’s site to realize how brilliant this guy was. An 84cm-tall action film star who made James Bond spoofs – as the James Bond character. And listen to Andrew’s story, it’s one of the most entertaining podcasts I’ve heard in ages.
Posted on 24. Mar, 2009 by Cameron Reilly in free will
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The gist of it is this: They say they have proved that if humans have free will, then elementary particles — like atoms and electrons — possess free will as well.
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Princeton mathematician John Conway (best known in geek circles for his “
Game Of Life“) and his colleague Princeton mathematician Simon Kochen, are apparently about to give a series of lectures in which they intend to demonstrate that elementary particles have “free will”. However the advance press is quoting them as saying that these particles have free will “if humans have free will”, which, of course, I have demonstrated many times that we DO NOT.
I’ll have to invite Conway onto the show to debate this in more detail. He and Kochen are obviously super-smart guys, so I look forward to seeing what evidence they have that humans have free will, let alone elementary particles.
