Public Minds: Edulink Collaborations

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Public Minds Edulink Collaborations

• Creative Systems Thinking
• for Innovators
• Special Topics IS/LS 5950 SP07
• By Daniel Revsbeck

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Step 1Systematically Re-imagining a Set of Human
Activities

• Diagnosis of the problem of access to affordable
  public education platforms for prospective higher
  education students and Lifelong Learners.
• Identifying opportunities for collaborations
  involving public media and the public education
  community to address the needs of Lifelong
  Learners to record skills profiles.
• Media interpretation for the Citizen Consumer.

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Step 2Underlying and Fundamental Problem Easily
Overlooked

• The real issue yet unresolved Media Ethics
  and the citizen consumers role discerning talk
  show chatter.
• Citizenship or Consumerism? The question of
  responsibility.
• Truthiness When Faith trumps Fact. 2006 word
  of the year.

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Step 3Innovative Solution Proposal

• Self-directed, Personally Designed Skills
  Profile.
• Virtual Folk School with Personally Designed
  Curriculums teaching Enterprise Skills.
• Collaborations with Public Media, the Public
  Education Community and the Public Mind of the
  Citizen Consumer.

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Step 4Points of Leverage

• Create an opportunity to implement one of the
  solutions.
• Lifelong Learners, PBS, U of M PIL and CCE
  (Osher) with potential for accreditation.
• MLS degree curriculum of self-directed study to
  design and implement Public Minds platform.

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Step 4 (cont.)Points of Leverage

• Establish stakeholders like Bill Moyers (write
  him a letter).
• PBS.org to become the host for the Lifelong
  Learners Skills Profile that synthesizes
  Enterprise Skills to accompany PBS Kids, PBS
  Parents, and PBS Teachers on PBS webpage.

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Summary, conclusion and future developments.

• Develop MLS self-directed study curriculum that
  will become the design of Public Minds.
• Become catalyst for PBS to adopt Public Minds
  using my personal design and cirriculum as an
  example.