The Reshaping of the World with Thomas Friedman
Ben and Becky break down a recent talk Thomas Friedman delivered to a packed house in our district just before winter break. He talked about the accelerations he writes about in his columns and books, the importance (now more than ever) of being kind to one another, and his advice for young people in this world that is being rapidly reshaped before our eyes. We’ll post a video of his entire talk on our blog when we’re able, but tune in to this episode to hear how we can apply his messages of practical optimism and awareness of three accelerations to the world of education.
Vrain Waves: Teaching Conversations with Minds Shaping Education
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Show Notes
Connect with Thomas Friedman
Website: www.thomaslfriedman.com | Twitter: @tomfriedman | Most Recent Book: Thank you for Being Late
Connect with Vrain Waves
Website: vrainwaves.com | Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb
- Importance of Public Education (05:20)
- Thomas Friedman’s Educational Experiences (06:09)
- Reshaping of our World (08:45)
- “Now is the time to understand more so that we can fear less.” - Marie Curie
- 3 Climate Changes at once: Mother Nature, Market, Moore’s Law
- Exponential growth
- Moore’s Law - Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel (09:42)
- Technology accelerating at a pace that humans can’t adapt (13:40)
- Mother Nature - Resilience & Propulsion (14:21)
- An Interview with Mother Nature
- Questions for us to apply to education within these characteristics (17:32)
- #ClearTheAir on Twitter - from the amazing @ValeriaBrownEDU and team
- Teaching Tolerance
- Episodes with Manoush Zomorodi / Cal Newport / Natalie Wexler
- Friedman’s CV
- Lifelong Learning (21:45)
- Self-motivation divide: Owning Your Own Future - single most important competitive advantage
- Advice to his daughters (23:12)
- Think like an immigrant - Paranoid Optimism
- Think like an artisan - from The Goldens @ Harvard
- Think like a starter-upper in Silicon Valley - Reid Hoffman - Always be in Beta (Skyline High School STEM Academy)
- CQ + PQ > IQ
- Think like a waitress at Perkins Pancake House in Minneapolis - be relentlessly entrepreneurial
- Identity in the reshaped world (30:25)
- Friedman on the new grid
- Binary bias
- Myth of hemispheric dominance in the brain
- Personality Tests (Myers-Briggs: Vox, Adam Grant)
- The Golden Rule (33:16)
- The Eye People (34:13)
- Brandi Carlisle - The Eye
- Refrain: “I wrapped your love around me like a chain, but I never was afraid that it would die. You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you’re standing in the eye.”
- Dynamic stability - Astro Teller on dynamic stability
- Brandi Carlisle - The Eye