I should practice g'widei Now I don't I can ever say that seriously I mean that I've just talked to some of the Australians later and and they can teach me how separate properly without laughing I Given the This task and it's quite a daunting task of opening the conference and Tryn to cover the themes of the conference I thought, how can I cover those themes? I thought, well, I'm going to talk about chasms. I'm very aware that we're doing a lot of tinkering around the edges. I know that the people in this room today are some of the pioneers who are doing that tinkering. But we need to do more. There are some really nice initiatives which are taking giant leaps. Sometimes they need them. David Lloyd George said, don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. I'm also going to talk about monkeys. You'll find more about that later. Let me just explain how my talk is going to pan out. I'm going to talk about the chasms I see existing in all sorts of areas of education. I'm going to talk about some of the solutions that people have come up with and others that people are going to come up with and how they can really jump across those big chasms that are opening up in all facets of education. Then one or two caveats at the end, because I think there are some things we need to do first before we can start to take these giant leaps. I'm going to talk about informal and formal learning. I'm going to talk about schools and higher education. I'm going to talk about cultures and economies. As Mike said, I had a background as a school teacher. I was in teacher training in higher education. Now I've gone into industry. I hadn't actually thought about that, Mike, but I hadn't realised that I've jumped a few chasms myself. I actually don't call myself a corporate backpacker, an escaped academic usually. If anyone wants to know this scape route, come and see me afterwards. There may be some other chasms I'll come across as we go through a particularly between higher education and training in industry. I'll start with the informal and formal learning. I think there are a lot of differences. We've just had Alan Dodson talking about the generation who are the digital natives and we're the digital immigrants. We know a lot about that. We know that there's a lot of tools that we learn with that our children don't and the younger people don't use. My son tells me I use a computer like an old person. I actually think I'm quite good at computers, but it's just the way they use the tools is actually quite different. The way we learn is different and with whom we learn. We had a very interesting session yesterday at the workshop at LSRI about learning spaces and we talked about moving away from age-related classes. It's one of the things I've been talking about for a long while that we really need to think about that. If you look at the way kids play games, they don't know how old the people are. They're playing games with them when they're playing multi-user games. They have no idea how old they are, but they don't care. If they're playing the game and they're getting some interaction and it's working and they feel they have the competition, why does age matter? This is the sort of child that we all have to teach. They are in their bedrooms, they have the television on, they have the radio on, they have their iPods, they're listening to music, they don't notice the time going. They don't seem to have time to do their homework though they seem to be doing that. It's actually quite interesting because they still do want to sit down with their friends. I was interviewing a 14-year-old a couple of years back and he said he gets home and he has all these instant message windows open and he's chatting to several different friends, all in different windows, several chats going. I said, do you talk about homework? He says, oh yeah, we discuss our homework. I said, oh, you get group homework thinking we've got a real innovation here going on in schools. He said, no, no, we don't have group homework. Oh yes, we do have group homework, but we don't do that on instant messaging. I said, well, how do you do that? Oh, they come round to my house. They do actually like to interact and they do actually see that there are times when they don't want to work with at the computer, through the computer, that they actually want to sit down and work together. So, let's move to the next slide. This is another example that I ripped off YouTube. So it's, and because Microsoft doesn't like real player, I have to do an alt tab to it. So just watch this little clip. Okay, I'm back from a freaking girl. I am socializing hard hard. I'm logged on to an MMORPG with people from all over the world and getting XP with my party using TeamSpeak. I think that sums it up, doesn't it? The difference between the way they learn and the way we learn. But it's interesting because all this social networking that's going on is very interesting. I was listening to, I was actually on the way to give a talk to the specialist schools trust. And I was listening to the specialist schools trust and I was listening to a program on the radio, a news program. And they were saying that children don't know that porridge is made from oats and oats are grown by farmers in fields. So with all this networking, with all this information, it's all this access to information, it isn't being processed into knowledge and there is still a very, very strong role for schools and for teachers and for parents to work with their children to turn that information into knowledge. Wim Veen has written a book called Homer's Appians. I don't know if you've seen it. Recommended it's, you can get it through Amazon with Ben Fracking. And he talks about the fact that if we think back to our own days of learning in school, it was very linear. We stopped in the top left-hand corner and we worked across. The only time we might not have done anything particularly linear is when we looked through an encyclopedia and we were trying to find information. So I think that's a good thing. We looked through an encyclopedia and we were trying to find information. But when you watch young people at the computer, they tend to be very non-linear. They'll start somewhere. They'll flush around. They'll go all over the place to get to the information they want. They scan a screen. They don't start in the top left-hand corner. They're drawn by particular images. They're drawn by text. And they're very much, much more multimedia than we are. It's no longer text is king. These children go to school. And this is what happens. This is an example from the Netherlands. Look at the reduction in the use of media. And this isn't just the internet. It's radio. It's TV. It's magazines. It's newspapers. Cell phones. We know that they're banned in schools and games. So it's those sorts of media. Very, very little media is actually used in school in any format. We're still very much wedded to the printed page with a little bit of content thrown up on the screen that looks very similar a lot of the time. Not all the time. There is some great stuff out there. So we have this issue where the informal learning that students are doing outside school and what they're doing inside school are very, very different. I think universities are getting better, much faster, because they have less of the pressures and I'll come back to that later on when I talk about the differences between the two. John Seely Brown, who is one of my favourite authors, talks a lot about the role of informal learning and we don't really do enough with informal learning inside education. We don't give people the space and the time for it. At Cisco we've really recognised how important that is and we have about 20 different tools that we use, including blogs and wikis and instant messaging, that we allow our staff to use, we encourage them to use and it's really very, very useful because that's the way I find out how to do my job and you can imagine coming in from academia going into industry, I got completely blown away by the TLA's, the three letter acronyms and just learning those sorts of things, learning the culture, learning how you talk to customers, learning what you don't say and what you do say in a business situation. I became the translator really between education and industry, not just the acting at the interface of the technology and education, but actually being the translator between the two and I often get pulled in by our sales team to go and talk to customers because they say oh you talk the same language as them Michelle and I don't leverage and I don't do 360 degree views and all the sorts of, I mean I can swallow the deal but dictionary if I need to with the right customers. What we see is also this stasis, we haven't really grasped it and you look at what happens in education, you see that link with print is still very much there. The VLE approach on the whole is very much about putting that your notes up on the web and I know that I'm talking to a group of people here who don't just do that, who do far more but I'm talking about a lot of the colleagues that you work with and I imagine that 90% of you are trying to bring into the 21st century. We still have lectures when kids demand podcasts so we give them both, why? And we're in the school setting, we're still bogged down with standards and the standards that are set very much in the 20th century if not the 19th. We don't think about what it is we need to do and learn for today's world, for living in today's world and for working in today's world. David McConnell in his book on e-learning groups and communities of practice talks about e-learning courses being linear and you remember I've just shown you how young kids work. They start in the middle and work outwards and they link things in very different ways. It's deterministic, it's closed and we tend to, we don't celebrate success. We only seem to look at telling people how badly they're doing well, how well they're doing and I won't talk about the GCSE results and the A-level results because we get that every year. Okay, so that's the informal formal learning, I've just touched on a few things, there are loads more. Then there's the chasms between school and higher education. I think the US are particularly diverse in that respect. The top ten universities in the world are American.  They are falling down and down the league tables in schools is the US. The focus on testing on the SATs is absolutely amazing. I worked in the job I'm just about to leave. I've been working on our corporate social responsibility, our social investments in education and we have a big programme in Mississippi and we've really tried to turn around their view about education. We say, look, those kids will pass the test if you go beyond them and go around them and work in creative ways using their lives, using their technology, giving them access to authentic learning opportunities rather than drilling them all the time, which is what they do. So, there's these big chasms. I see schools almost going backwards in lots of countries and I see higher education beginning to take leaps forward. This is the Technical University at Eindhoven. They run an industrial design course. It's a very interesting course and I think what's happening there shows this real chasm because what's happening is they are recruiting students who come from schools to the university and they've got a very, very high drop out. I think it was around 80% drop out. Why? Because they make the students become employees from day one. They're employees in industrial design and they have projects they work on with local customers. Philips is in the town, so I imagine a lot of those projects come from Philips and the lecturers act as project managers and coordinators and they direct the project. Now, the students just cannot cope with that degree of flexibility, autonomy, the need to collaborate, the need to work in teams, the need to have those critical thinking skills that are so important and they drop out the course, they cannot cope. Obviously, those who do cope and who finish walk into jobs. I think that really to me just shows the differences in the chasm that is growing between schools and universities. Our assessment systems are way out of alignment. Recent announcement in the UK is that school coursework for GCSEs is going to be replaced by controlled assessments because too many parents are helping their kids and so on. Plagiarism and everything else. So they're going to have controlled assessments where the kids will sit and do their coursework in the classroom. Now, we did a survey again a little while ago, two or three years ago, where we talked to children about their use of the internet in school and they said there's no point in using it at school because the security there is so tight, so many sites are banned, I can't actually use it so I wait till I go home and they go home and they get the information they need for their coursework. Now they can't do that. We have these tests at 14, 16 and 18 but they're still very strong focus on writing skills, not on their multimedia skills and there are no group assessment tasks. When we go to universities, I'm still an examiner at Sheffield Hallam University in a very innovative course on e-learning multimedia and consultancy and they have a very varied type of assessment. There are group assessments, peer assessments, e-portfolios which a lot of you are using and the assessment of the way students collaborate online. So you can see how that chasm is really, really broadening. So we talk about lifelong learning but is that really a myth? I mean lifelong learning means something seamless but we get these big jumps, we don't get this continuity and then when students come out of university and go into work we have to retrain them. Our graduate trainees spend a year on a boot camp learning how to work for Cisco. They shouldn't have to do that. They should be able to have a shorter induction course because they know what to do and they can hit the deck running. Then the other thing that's dear to my heart is the cousins between north and south and having worked in so many developing countries having been to so many universities and being absolutely appalled there's one university in Senegal where to get to a lecture that starts at 9 o'clock you have to be there by 6.30 or you won't get in the room because there are 2,000 students to sit into a lecture theatre for 200. They sleep six people to a room for one. So university in the north but we bring people to the UK to the US to Australia and they don't go back. So we have this dichotomy of how we can so we are trying to get Africa to grow and to develop and to have an education system and to have an economy that is going to grow and education is the key to that every government agrees. Yet how can we bring people here and they don't go back because they see what life is like in another country they see the opportunities they're going to go back to poverty. How can we help those countries to grow and develop without having to bring those people out but still give them the benefit of the education? There's other issues around linguistic issues what language are people taught in often it's English or it's French or it's Spanish and it's never their home language. Then there are technological barriers what a colleague and I have called technology dissonance we impose technology solutions on them that they can't afford. We, when I did an evaluation of the academy programme the Cisco Networking Academy programme back in 2001 they still had screens that flickered and we were expecting them to read online all the time and that really is quite hard on the eyes and the students got very tired but we were working on high resolution screens that are easy to read from. We impose a learning methodology and a pedagogy as well when we bring students out here or we work with them overseas that might be different. Again in that evaluation I did in 2001 nuances in pedagogy although teaching is teaching and everyone is trying to move towards a constructivist education model I did see teaching which was had slight differences, slight nuances and it's very important that we allow for that and we understand the cultures that our students come from and the relationship that they have with their teachers which is very different from the relationship that British or American or Australian students have with their teachers. I can't talk about the other countries that are represented here. Then we have these other tensions so if we talk about trying to improve and help improve developing country HEIs by some sort of reciprocal arrangement using technology, co-teaching and we've got a lovely project in western Sydney in schools where we're using interactive whiteboards and video conferencing to co-teach where there is a shortage of teachers. We can do that but then we have this tension about open education resources and transnational education so we're trying to get people to work on a set of resources that may be not culturally suitable. How do we accommodate those and how do you help the developing country at the same time? Alternative access is to higher education through distance learning from home. The problem is the availability of technology. We are working on low cost solutions for that but they are some way off and those low cost solutions are still maybe more expensive than others but they are going to be there but it's going to take time and what do we do in the interim? What about peer review? Peer review is very important but peer review and cultural relevance sometimes don't go together because what is relevant to one country isn't always relevant to another. What about innovation, interactivity, using all these wonderful tools that we can use? Video conferencing for example is very difficult when you have half a meg coming into your campus and yet we're talking about access so we have those tensions and quality is expensive. How can you provide quality at low cost? So there are a number of tensions there between north and south that are causing those chasms to grow and we've got to find a way to try and bring those together. Okay so that's looking at the chasms. Let's look at some of the solutions that people already have come up with. First of all I thought this bit of research I thought was quite interesting. What is it that employers are looking for? If we're going to cross the chasms between education and industry we need to know what employers are looking for and David Thornberg carried out this research in 2004 that showed that technological fluency was very, very important. Great fluency. Communication skills. Collaboration, teamwork, leadership. Interesting how low down creativity comes. That's worrying. Why don't they want their employees to be creative? But what was interesting was that people who got jobs were very happy with cultural diversity. There are so many multinational companies.  So there's so many immigrants and you have to work with those people and it's very important that you're very happy with that environment. People who have work-life balance and I won't say anything about Cisco there and a sense because I think I'm being broadcast and a sense of pride and excellence. Okay, so what has changed? There are places where those chasms are being bridged. We're seeing some attitudes and approaches in higher and further education. We're seeing some great programmes coming out of GISC. We're seeing portal technology for example. We're looking at some great e-learning coming out like Joram and we're looking at skills and access to e-learning is improving all the time. So we're seeing that. We're seeing this development of personal learning environments and the work that's being done up in Bolton I think and I know that that was a big topic of debate last year at the conference here. But the use of bringing the formal and the informal together through personal learning environments is something that I really think is going to take off and going to make a big difference and that's bridging that chasm. Learning from experts using podcasts and blogs to get some of the top people to come to the university and to interact with the students without being there. So this experts in non-residents and being able to bring them in and giving access to your students to the leading thinkers in your field. But what needs to change? That is where the monkeys come in. I was in Borneo a few years ago and had this great privilege to go on a river barge and see the probiscous monkeys who go and feed. They go up and down the river and our guide said to us, occasionally they cross the river. Now that very, very rarely happens. He said in 25 years he'd never seen it happen. He didn't actually believe they crossed the river. We saw it. We were so lucky. And I just thought it just, for me, it was a great metaphor for what we're talking about here today and at this conference, is how do we get across. And it was great. Those monkeys weren't frightened. Every single one of them lept across. And most of them did what this one did, which was fall into the water. And then they just scrambled up and they carried on, climbed up the tree and they were eating again. And there was one that was really nervous. So the lead monkey, who was always much bigger than the others, he went and sat on a branch and beckoned this monkey across. It was just such a one and he kept going up to the branch and back again and up to the branch and back again. And we were willing him to make it. And he got across and he slithered down the side but then he scrambled up from the bank. And you can see all the other monkeys were really happy. And I thought this is really a metaphor. We have to scramble up the bank sometimes. We might miss. We might do something wrong but if we don't try, it's not going to happen. So we need to think about what needs to be taught, what is actually taught. I realise I can't see this. I've got this thing on. That's another thing about being a corporate backpacker. Everybody watches what you're doing on your computer on a plane. What needs to be taught? What is actually taught? And what is learned? Go back to the porridge and oats situation. What is it what needs to be taught? We keep talking about the knowledge society. And we talk about and every country I go to, we talk to sit to the minister of ICT or the minister of education. We want to be the knowledge society, the knowledge centre for this part of the world. We can't all be there. We need to think about division of labour. We need to think about what skills that we in our country can bring for the rest of the world, for global good. And then we need to think about what's actually taught and what is learned then. We need this much more of this knowing what, knowing that, knowing why, knowing how, knowing where and knowing when. Problem is we're missing out the why. And that's why children don't know that porridge comes from oats. And it's not about a knowledge society. It's about a knowledgeable society. A knowledgeable society so that you are better at agriculture. You're better at manufacturing. You're better at tourism. You're better at health. You're better at the knowledge society. And I think we need to change that knowledge society to the knowledgeable society. And how we can use technology to bridge the chasms for north and south and to make everybody part of the knowledgeable society. And we need to think about how we're going to use that technology because whatever way we design it, it isn't going to be used that way. And I think the telephone was a classic example of that. And this quote from Manuel Castells, I think sums up a lot of that. People will transform the technology themselves. SMS messaging was never, nobody ever thought that would take off. It was just an add-on. But for kids, it's what they use most of the time. The telephone, as an example, was only ever meant to be for listening to concerts and getting public messages. I don't think that's what we ever use the telephone for. And people, we need to make sure that people have the opportunity to be successful. These children in Afghanistan made a satellite dish because they wanted to get television and they couldn't get it out of recycled cans. They took cans and turned it into a satellite dish. And as Robert Sternberg says, in the real world, analytical intelligence is no longer enough. It's not that it no longer matters, but it certainly matters less. We need to be creative and we also need to be practical. We need all three. So learning, I think, has a new focus. We have to think about it as having an informal focus. It's emergent and it's social. And instead of talking about the three Rs, we need to talk about the three P's. Persistence, power tools and play. We're seeing a lot of research going on into gaming, serious gaming, because we recognise the skills that people use when they're playing games. I used to be a maths teacher and the generalisation that students go through when they're playing games, the trial and error, trial and improvement, the metacognitive skills. If they'd used those in a maths lesson, I would have been over the moon, but they didn't, they just did their sums. So we really need to think about how we can bring persistence, making people try again if they get it wrong, working out where they went wrong, using those metacognitive skills, using the power tools at their disposal, all that technology, and learning through play, learning 2.0. We need to make sure that we have richer and more engaging learning experiences for our students. We need to restructure our teaching. Why are we giving lectures in lecture theatres? I'm doing it now. But there are times when you want to do it, but you can put this onto a podcast, and people are watching this on Illuminate, and I hope that their experience is no lesson because they're not in the room. They're able to ask questions and I see some are already appearing and I hope I can answer some of them. I can't phone a friend, can I? So we need to think about that. We also need to think about those authors of content.  Are we using that? Are we harnessing that? Are we putting out there for critical review from other students as part of their assessment processes? We've got to think about new ways of teaching, what should be known, making sure that these kids know that porridge comes from oats. It's just an example. I think the name of the game is around collaboration. I sound like Tony Blair now, don't I? Education, education, education. But it is, everything you see and everything we talk about is around collaboration. We have the creative archive, the opportunities to rip, mix and share. Turning the concept of media literacy into more than a good idea. We have open courseware where people can play around with resources and other people are put up with, change it, add to it, put it back up again and share it. Collaboration. We see children who may work together can design their own e-learning environment. This is a bit of work that Shirley Alexander and Lynn Shaverin did in Sydney. And I asked 8-12-year-olds to design their own e-learning environment. And the questions they asked, what do we think and how do we think? These are their questions, not the teachers, but some have been as complex as that. And why aren't we born knowing what we know now? This is serious, these 8-12-year-olds from an ordinary school who came up with these questions and then designed an e-learning environment as a journey through a forest rather than a journey on a train which was the two options they came up with because if they went through a forest the driver would know where he was going if they were on a train, if they went through a forest and they might make some mistakes but that would be okay. We should be listening to those kids, listening to the learners. Then we need to think about the human network, the opportunities that are coming up now, the solutions that are coming up around follow me content, people subscribing to people, LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, immersive interactions and making sure that the learning services, the social collaboration, all those resources are there from any device. This is all going to be up available later so you can look at this in more detail because it's a fairly complex slide but it's about a network of people. It's about finding ways to improve that communication so people can collaborate. Integrated learning teams, education partners, multi-format learning and at the back end of that having ways to operate it efficiently and manage it from the administration end. Looking at communication, information sharing, collaboration, decision, support, event management, data integration. We need to think about all of those. We need to think about how we can partition the network so that students can't use MSN and email when they're sitting in a lecture but they can still have their laptops there. How we can make sure that we've got the bandwidth we need without having to make the pipes fatter and fatter. We need to think about that as we increase collaboration so that we can work with developing countries and we can work with each other without having to constantly increase the bandwidth but to find ways of managing the bandwidth more intelligently. We want to look at ways we can use our mobile phones to access all of that so that you have a screen where you can touch the screen and pull up different things education materials, finding experts and using presence and location resources to get to those experts. Use of avatars in education we see a lot of work going on in second life and bridging the divide using things like telepresence or the thunder system or using the two together the thunder system is a electronic note board system where instead of having paper flip charts you have electronic flip charts putting those two together you can really do research you don't have to travel and you can do research across borders. The future education mashups are coming where you're going to be able to have an avatar who will go out and find the information you want link you and locate people with you. This is all about collaboration using google maps using instant messaging and video conferencing all those tools and your avatar will help to locate the people you need the experts because there's been intelligent avatar who will go out and find those for you. Then we need to think about the university links we need to think about how we work with the south and the south working together how we link universities in the developing world as well as those north south engagements that some of you are involved in how can we broaden those, how can we make them better how can we really help those developing countries to develop and then we need joint appointments in Qatar they've taken a brand new university in the knowledge village there and they are said to one of the American universities you can have a free campus but you have to send all your lecturers to teach on this campus we don't want local people teaching and you will co-teach with them so that's the way that they're trying to build up the skills in country because those people who are taught by those those American lecturers will then become the teachers of the next generation so it's really really about capacity building in a very very positive way although they have a lot more money in Qatar than they do in say Kenya we need to think about making sure that education is locally relevant but also making sure it fits in the global model we are in a globalised society and we need to really push these low cost access solutions okay I'm going to finish off with my caveats sometimes those smaller steps aren't it you do need to sort of maybe paddle across the water test things out I didn't mention one of the things I came across yesterday where I think it was on the biggest chasms that was ever been jumped which is the RSA academy where they have built a school around a new curriculum so it's a new curriculum, a very innovative curriculum called Opening Minds and they've built a school around that so there are some really exciting things going on being heralded as a real showpiece and it might actually change things in school education so we need to think about identifying the relevant knowledge what it is to be knowledgeable in your country in your society, in your town, in your university thinking about do we always need to give lectures can we do podcasts instead making closer links and ties with schools and the workplace and with higher education and the workplace the reason that the universities in the US are the top 10 is because of their links with industry and their business incubation making sure that all e-portfols are interoperable and that we're using them right from school onward so we do get these small steps which build up into this lifelong learning piece which is seamless schools being preparations for lifelong learning and recognising that from the recent study by Demos those learners are groundbreaking pioneers they're not all homo-zapiens they are, but they are using this technology and the big thing assessment is very political changing assessment takes time in schools so how can we really that's the thing, that's the biggest cousin we have to jump that's the biggest leap we have to make if we can make that then I think all the other places will fall into place thank you thank you very much Michelle we've got a little time for questions and we're going to take questions from the floor and also a few questions that have come in via illuminate so we have a roving mic so if you'd like to ask a question can you put up your hand and wait a minute till the microphone reaches you any questions while you're thinking what I'm going to do is start with one that's come from illuminate which is this that Michelle you've put a lot of emphasis on text no longer being king or queen how does that square with the phenomenal success of Wikipedia as a largely text based medium that's a very good question I mean text is no longer king it doesn't mean it isn't important it's just that there are that you tube is phenomenally successful and there's teacher tube now so it's the fact that we always place it above everything else rather than actually looking at the other media as an equal resource okay let's see some questions from the floor yes there's one at the back there thanks Michelle on your presentation you showed us the questions that some 8 and 12 year olds had come up with and I suppose sort of paraphrasing that the questions they'd come up with were sort of about self understanding and independent exploring or exploration I suppose the big chasm is where does the teacher fit into all this or maybe how does the teacher fit into all this I think the teacher is without the teacher the teacher was there supporting the children asking questions to them to help them think to bring out their ideas because they don't always know what questions to ask in terms of how they're going to design the environment so modelling the learning process I think is what I see teachers doing they're expert learners in that domain and they model the learning process that's how you learn as an apprentice when you sit at the foot of the master you learn by asking questions watching the way that the master works and you ask the questions and you learn the job that way so I see teachers and students in that role There's one just down there halfway down on the right right at the end I just wanted to ask Michelle how you think we should address the issue of literacy because in universities now we've got a big problem with literacy issues and challenges associated with students and personally the fact that I know you said about students learning less in a linear fashion I think this has had an impact on their literacy and you don't seem to have addressed that within your presentation I only had 40 minutes One of the interesting things that we did a few years ago I was like gosh it's 10 years ago now with the EDCE project we were looking at we were working in a primary school and these students were writing emails to other students and they took so much more care in their spelling, their grammar the way they created their sentence because they were writing for an authentic audience I think what happens in schools is you know your teacher expects you to make mistakes and therefore she'll correct it for you and when you have to write for another audience then you start to see them taking more care and more pride in their work so I think that I agree with you literacy standards have fallen despite all the literacy hour all the efforts that have been made in England to improve the quality of literacy and I think it really is around finding new ways of teaching literacy that really engage the students in their lives and in their way and then maybe we can get back to the standards that we should expect but I think I do see an improvement when students have to write in school for another audience and I think that's probably one way forward Can we have just one more question yes down there at the front we've got to do a little bit of microphone relay passing here so right down at the front here one more question and that'll have to be the last one I'm afraid Michelle in your presentation I get the idea talking about active students that are actually willing to learn what's your opinion on students that are not so willing to learn aren't they fallen behind in this new approach? Well I think that's a big problem they're not willing to learn because they have to leave their culture outside the school grounds and they come into school and they resent being there the tools they use to learn to relate to others inside school and what they're learning they don't see as relevant it doesn't fit their idea of what they're going to need I used to be a maths teacher if a child said to me and they did occasionally how is this going to help me get a job which is what they did then I knew I'd failed as a teacher because I wasn't giving them an experience to engage with because kids love solving problems solving puzzles and I just wasn't giving them enough of that to do so it's about really bringing their culture within the school gates and giving them opportunities also there's lots of other social issues around that but if we can try and get them into school and want them to be there then they'll want to learn because everyone learns that's the problem this has been a really excellent start to the conference I think one of the points that Michelle picked up about children and trying to understand children's learning all of us who've got teenage children I think we ought to thank them for their contribution as research partners I don't think I could ever have done my research without the contribution of my two teenage children so thanks to all our children and thank you very much Michelle for raising such relevant themes to the conference and also leaving us with big issues that we need to confront to confront it's not often that we can rise above the narrow issues of how you design learning materials for your own context and think about what are the global issues that are now confronting learning technology and you've helped us to do that thank you very much indeed I'd also like to thank Illuminate and also Linda Kerner who's done a great job in plucking out some questions I'm sorry we haven't been able to cover them all but certainly Illuminate has been successful I've just been monitoring some of the private chat that's been going on and we've had colleagues for example from the Palestine Polytechnic University in Hebron Palestine so our Palestinian colleagues have been watching this talk and participating so thank you Illuminate for making that possible


Proud lay we hail From New York City where the American stage begins here is another program with a cast of outstanding players Public service time has been made available by this station to bring you this story as proudly we hail the United States Air Force Our story today is called a little more time It tells of an incident in the flying career of Major Richard Cotton and of a girl Carol Adams a newspaper woman out to get a story our first act curtain will rise in just a moment, but first It's a long long way to tipper airy But just a short trip downtown to your local United States Air Force recruiting station Why not volunteer now for the United States Air Force? And it won't be long before you'll know your way around around the world That is for travel opportunities at no expense to you join the United States Air Force You can get the full story from the friendly people down at your nearest United States Air Force base or your local United States Air Force recruiting station Yes, serve in blue Air Force blue and do it today And now your United States Air Force presents the proudly we hail production a little more time Excuse me. I wonder if you could tell me where I can find Colonel Hill Oh, yes, just follow this walk until you come to the building marked H and go in and ask this Colonel Hill Are you sure he's in? Won't I do I'm I'm not a Colonel yet. I can see that major cotton major Richard cotton at your service, ma'am How nice and I'll find Colonel Hill that way. Yes, but this is a dangerous place for a girl like you to be walking around in broad daylight Someone might see you and it's all full of man the Air Force men at that and No, you never can tell when someone might drop a feather or something out of a plane that's dangerous But didn't you know a feather dropped from a height of 10,000 feet say we'll have enough force behind it to knock over another feather if it Should meet it Which is where the expression you could knock me over where the feather comes from is it now? we live and learn don't we and This is still the way to Colonel Hills I was just appointed to the security police my chief job is to keep young ladies from annoying the Colonel and Vice versa Ruth will be glad to hear that. I'm sure I imagine your appointment was very sudden and Self-made Ruth. Oh Yes, Mrs. Hill You do know him now Yes, about the appointment sure right. I just appointed myself Sort of a temporary job. Well, I don't see why the Colonel should have all the luck If you weren't so pretty someone from information services would answer your questions. Thank you Well, I Suppose I might as well lead you to the Colonel myself. You seem bound and determined to get there Here in this building. I work for the Clemens courier and I'm supposed to get a story on the 1100 third wing They're going to receive a citation. Oh, well, if it's information you need What can the Colonel tell you that I can't and better because I'm not married If I were looking for a story about how a young man spends his time in Clemens, I'm sure I'd be sent to you But I'm looking for a story about the 1100 and third and its planes. Oh planes Well, this is gonna come as a great surprise to you But the Colonel can tell you more about the 1100 and third in the planes we fly than anyone else Even me I such modesty I'll be Colonel ought to be in the next room. Oh that sergeant over there should be keeping people away, but He knows better than to stop me when I'm bringing in a pretty girl right through here Colonel Hill major cotton reporting with a new way just a second dick But I am just speaking for the men. This is a team proposition and a team honor. I Well, I'll have to finish it later. What can I do for you dick? Oh Carol? How nice? So that's your name Carol one good to see you Stan, but I'm here on business Something this gentleman doesn't seem to believe you have met I see he insisted on escorting me said it wasn't safe around Well, I'm sure you had nothing to worry about as long as dick was with you. It was just the way I felt ouch. What have I done? And your cotton? Adam said she'd come to see me on business Yes, sir. I'll wait outside Adams isn't it Carol Adams. That's nice name. Thank you major and Maybe I was wrong. Maybe I would have had something to worry about without you around and on that note You may leave major Always quit while you're ahead. Yes, sir, but I'm not yet even much less ahead Well Carol, what can I do for you my editor sent me out here to get a story on the citation the 1103 medium bomb wing is to receive The man who usually covers Madison is sick. So the boss sent me over Well, I'm always glad to see you Carol and But but what if I ever heard a man start a sentence meant to continue with but that was it Well, I would rather see you at some other time. I'll admit I've got to get a speech ready and You know, I'd prefer doing almost anything else in the world help me with my story. I'll help you with your speech You don't have to do that. I'll help you with your story. Anyway, go ahead. Well to start with what is a wing a wing? Well, I guess that is as good a place to start as any a Wing is a basic unit in the Air Force It is a mobile self-supporting unit capable of independent operation either in the field or at an established station a Wing is generally broken down into groups squadrons and flights Am I going too fast? No, no, keep on maybe I'll understand in time a wing has groups squadrons and flights in that order A flight is a tactical not an administrative unit There are usually three flights to a squadron, which is the smallest Air Force unit that is self-sufficient Our combat groups consist of three combat squadrons plus a tanker squadron A wing is a combat group plus non tactical groups for supply maintenance medical service and so forth What's the 1100 and third that's mine? That's the 1100 and third medium bomb wing based here at Madison AFB The medium means its range and payload Generally speaking bombers are classified as heavy medium, but they're subject to change and you fly B 47s, what about their medium bombers the backbone of today's Air Force? There are striking power almost as fast and maneuverable as a fighter But they carry a punch no fighter can match and for a long distance. They're big But they don't look big in flight They look lean and narrow with their sharply swept back wings and they can go like a bat out Well, they're powered by six turbojet engines each of which can deliver about 6,000 pounds of thrust The B-47 has a range of about 3,000 miles without refueling and can carry more than 10 tons of bombs The plane itself floated and ready for action weighs about 100 tons and that's a medium bomber The name is a little misleading, isn't it? Yes, that's a medium bomber weighs about 200,000 pounds carries more than 20,000 pounds of bombs at more than 600 miles an hour And handles like a fighter plane Let's take a lot of men to fly each plane each B-47 has a crew of Three the pilot co-pilot and a triple threat man a navigator bombardier radar operator The reason why three people can manage this plane is partly due to the K system an Electronic system that takes a lot of the man work out of the whole complicated job of getting to a target bombing it and returning safely Each B-47 has more than a thousand electronic tubes in it, and there are some 27 miles of electric wiring connecting all the parts and controls Are you beginning to get the idea? Yes, it's big and fast and complicated and very efficient The B-47 has flown over the North Pole It's flown across the Atlantic in a few minutes more than four hours at an average speed of 650 miles an hour Another B-47 stayed up in the air some 35 hours flying better than 17,000 miles in that time if I were Ruth I might be jealous Jealous of a machine have a hundred tons of metal or of what you think about it and about the men who fly it You know what I mean much as I love those planes Carol. I don't think Ruth has anything to worry about Now look here's a citation we're going to get and all the stuff Why don't you read it over and see what else you want to find out and then ask me? Why don't you let me read your speech, too? Maybe that will give me something to go on. Oh Well, if you want to Here it is first draft anyway Mind if I use a typewriter this one all right sure go right ahead guess that doesn't You've been banging away at a great rate did I say all that more or less Yes, come in. Oh, it's you again. Would you mind waiting outside dick? I just wanted to see if you were through with Carol yet, sir or vice versa not quite While you're looking over whatever that is. Why? Why can't she ask me the questions? Well, if that's all right Carol, it's up to you. I'm almost finished. I imagine I've taken up enough of your time. It's been a pleasure. Oh Time means nothing to the colonel. He wastes it regularly Save my life once how did he do that? Well, there I was there I was up in the air with a couple of million dollars worth of aircraft my co-pilot my navigator on my own life Unable to don't believe a word of it major cotton has a wonderful imagination Carol and he likes to use it to impress pretty girls He makes up fascinating stories about danger and his courage makes them up out a whole cloth, too Of all the commanders in the world. I have to get one who won't believe my story Oh, I want to thank you for what you did to my speech. I didn't do much I feel like the man who was so surprised to discover that he spoke prose and Did I really say all that? I just took the ideas you'd written down talked about them. What you did is perfect Just what I wanted to express only you said it better And I was for this man who's been talking to you. I have to warn you Carol against believing anything Oh, but Colonel. I was just telling her about the time that you saved my life Oh that well, it was different then the planes were new. We didn't know as much about them. Well, what was it? What did you do? I didn't do much of anything. I just stayed on the ground. He was up in the air Of course if it had only been dick that would have been different But he had a fine co-pilot and an excellent navigator up there with him as well as a valuable plane B-47 was newer than we hadn't had so much experience with it And all I did was sit there on the ground and listen One two five four seven to Madison Tower Indicate a light show front landing gear is not locked into landing position Roger one two five four seven How much fuel do you have? Fuel gauge shows enough for another half hour or so at this rate of consumption Continue to orbit and keep in touch Roger If we can't get this straightened out Get ready to catch us if we have to bail out or make a crash landing You are listening to the proudly we hail production a little more time. We'll return in just a moment for the second act Say high school seniors. 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Remember that title pocket guide to Air Force opportunities Get one today You are listening to proudly we hail and now we present the second act of a little more time Major cotton and his b-47 are circling over the base Unable to land because the front wheels are stuck and won't extend to landing position The b-47 looks light and slim which she is but like a well proportioned woman She's heavier than she looks almost a hundred tons being supported by those thin wings The long thin-looking fuselage has as much space as a 50 passenger airliner But the b-47 is so crowded with equipment that there seems to be barely room for the three-man crew Who are squeezed in one in front of the other as though they're riding a bicycle built for three At the moment the co-pilot captain Jim Lucas Captain Fred whiting the navigator and major dick cotton the pilot are discussing the situation One two five four seven the Madison Tower No change Colonel Hill says you to continue to orbit as long as your fuel holds out No more than 20 minutes fuel left now Madison Tower to one two five four seven Twenty minutes to see him about right Captain Lucas is making a visual check through forward inspection window I'll report to you what he found in a minute Just coming back Roger waiting your next call Well Jim see anything nothing you didn't know front gear is not fully extended that's all Panel indicator seems to be right here certainly isn't locked into landing position right I Take it you don't think it would support us if we should try to land on it This baby's heavy unless it's locked in that front landing here doesn't look as though it would hold up a butterfly Large butterfly that is all right. Thanks. I better tell the base One two five four seven to tower Calling Madison Tower Come in one two five four seven anything new Visual check shows front landing gear not fully extended not locked Would probably collapse as soon as any weight was put on it Colonel Hill says you're not to try a landing under any circumstances the gear that way Roger I'll keep on as long as possible That's it Colonel Hill's instructions are to stay with it, but to be prepared to bail out Set the autopilot so the plane will head toward the empty countryside to the Northwest In the meantime keep working the hydraulic system That gear will free Roger tower Tell the colonel that if he doesn't think of some way to get me out of this soon I'll have to parachute down to make my report And I've never used this seat ejection system. Hope it works Colonel Hill says to tell you the seat ejection system works. He's used it But until you have to keep trying everything Whole mission every plane returned without trouble except my best flyer Anything new? No, sir. They still report no change and if we had a little more time There must be some way If they could stay up there longer we could lick that problem We'd find some way to lock that gear in place so they could land Wait a minute those tankers Get me Captain Walden right away Walden is it Colonel Hill your KC 97 any of them still loaded How fast can you get them into the air in condition to refuel an almost dry bomber? We don't have 20 minutes major cotton's orbiting overhead with about 20 minutes fuel left maybe less by now get up there at once Yes, sir, right away. I'll use the PA to get the crew if they've left the hangar I'll take the plane up myself use anything you want but get moving Lieutenant Drew I know there's nothing else in the air Will you give orders that Captain Walden is going up in his KC 97 to meet major cotton and refuel the b-47 if he can do it in time Yes, sir, nothing is to stop him. Make sure there's no delay of any kind I'm going to the hangar to see that the tanker is airborne without delay Watch it don't fall out B-47 the plane you're going to refuel Went to the Northwest sir that means runway aids the best to use your show now Anything that will save time. It's a good crew. I've got that is resliers I think it must be inside the plane the whole crew is here before me. Good luck a fighting chance now Tower said a tanker was gonna come up to give us an in-air refueling But I didn't think I'd do it in time. I should have known better It's in the air now We can get some juice in here before these engines cut out on us And they eat it up so fast at a low speed and altitude like this Yeah, but what else can we do if we try to pour on a coal and climb to save some future fuel We haven't got we'll pull away from that nice tanker. I saw leave in the ground nothing else to do Wait a minute Here's the tanker now talking 1-2-5-4-7. This is tanker 1-2-3-2. Do you read me over? tanker 1-2-5-4-7, read you fine come in Intersect your path at the end of this leg and fly back over the field with you making contact as soon as possible Have you ever refueled in there? Yes, twice. Good. You know the procedure then sure.  How much fuel do you have left by my figuring about minus two minutes at this moment? His lovely engines are still running out of habit. That's all that's feeding them habit and hope Sergeant Barker is the tail boom operator. He says he's the best in the business I've got nothing to worry about all you do is follow his directions and hold steady Roger You're carrying enough fuel to keep us in business for a while. I can fill up for thirsty crates like yours Good just enough to fill up this one. That's all I ask We're right behind you now closing in and this is Clancy the boom operator I can see you ready any time start moving in Don't forget to remove the cover from the refueling receptacle on the nose Roger it's off Ready for contact anytime Flaps down stay the way you are lined up with our number three engine smoother than cream My compliments to the chef maximum flow established Roger I'm speeding up a little and pulling the nose up to counterbalance the weight of the fuel Feeling better by the minute as these tanks get heavier pressure disconnect Roger I'll start the counter Roger At three I give a full flap for a second right and as soon as we're clear you shove the O4 and give her the gun Ready one two five four seven two T one two three two Thank you. Okay. Just show full as they do now instead of empty And everyone was showing empty Glad you're satisfied, sir. Just recommend this to your friends in case they run out of gas in this neighborhood I'll do that What about the rest of your commercial? Mechanical was on duty flats fixed at all hours service with a smile. Well, the smiles on me now that there's fuel in this plane I'm going upstairs with this more room to move around When I get up there Captain Lucas is going to take the plane over for a while because I'm going to take time out to the shakes Our thanks to all of you for your quick work One two five four seven a Madison Tower Have fuel can travel I'm going to try to work that stuck landing gear loose somehow now that I've time Colonel Hill suggests you don't go too high I'm worried about fuel now We use it up too quickly at low altitudes Colonel says you're not trying to go anywhere Just to stay in the air last just six or seven hours a lot less if I don't fly out an efficient speed and height Colonel suggests you stay out of the cold upper reaches of the air for the time being Try to retract and extend the landing gear Hope it freeze. I've been doing that Hydraulic system that activates the moving parts develops about 25 horsepower Time if the power is reaching the forward landing gear it should make itself felt that was my theory, but Wouldn't seem to be reaching there a way to freed it by now Suggests you keep below altitude where cabin pressure is needed Captain Lucas can get through that pressure door again. He may be able to trace the hydraulic lines and make that gear work Oh, so that's why I wasn't supposed to go too high. Well, thanks makes sense We'll try the gear will probably work. I'm sure it will Or if not that something else Or am I just a little light headed from relief But you see what I mean all I did was sit on the ground and listen. Yeah, you see what I mean See why I do anything for him even if he does cast doubt on my stories What am I supposed to do decide? Chances are you're both right? It wasn't anything much But it made an impression on the major here because he was a part of it As I was saying the B-47 was newer then More than a thousand of them have been built now now. It's routine, but the B-47 major cotton was flying that day There's one of the first B-47s modified for in-air refueling. I Don't know what we would have done if it hadn't been fixed that way Okay, I can't thank you enough for rewriting my speech for me Wait till I tell Ruth you were here doing my work Did you get enough of material for your story? Oh plenty. Thank you. Don't thank me that she was on the other foot Are you going to be covering the ceremonies? I don't know Depends on whether the regular man's well enough to do it. I'd like to though. Well, maybe it can be arranged Oh, what's his name and what does he live?  Oh Sir, are you ordering me to leave? Yes, I take this girl with you That's an order to yes Yes, sir. Come on Carol. You heard what the man said and if she needs any more information you ought to give it to her If you're able and that's an order to The airmen in today's United States Air Force are going places they're advancing rapidly and new specialized careers They're attending the world's best technical training schools. They're serving in interesting assignments at home and abroad You'll be amazed at the hundreds of career opportunities open to you. So find out about it today Serve with the Air Force and you serve the finest visit your nearest United States Air Force recruiting station for complete details This has been another program on proudly we have presented transcribed in cooperation with this station proudly we hail is produced by the recruiting publicity center in New York for the United States Air Force and This is Mark Hamilton speaking Inviting you to join us next week at the same time for another interesting story on proudly we hail


is dedicating them back today with another video. Choose your opportunity if you're not subscribed. Go ahead and smash the subscribe button. Give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. In today's video, guess what baby? We are going to do our first local run in smoke. If you don't know what smoke is, smoke is a 2022 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Van, 2500 Hyrule 170 wheelbase. We're going to do our first local run and it is going to be 334 miles. It's going to take five hours and 13 minutes and we will receive a payment of $530.05, enough money to pay the rent. And we found this one on GoShare. What we're going to be picking up is one pallet and it has a 55 gallon barrel. I think it's like perfume or colonel or something like that baby. But we are here at the spot.  We're about to get our pockets on the swallow up. Let's go. We need it baby. So I'm just making sure I drop to the tip of the top before we leave baby. We got $83.10, we got to add the cash total. Put this run back right here.  That wind been blowing. We about to give them this bridge baby. We are getting on this bridge and you know I can't swim. So I, hey, if y'all don't see this video then. Woo hoo, it got real. But I didn't tell you guys this. Guess what? We are going to Missouri. You can find me in St. Louis. What I got? Let's talk about it. Comment below and let me know if you know about that. We are going to Missouri. And we're not going to St. Louis though. We're going to Maryland Heights. So if you're all in this Missouri area, Maryland Heights, shout out to you baby. Enjoy looking crazy. It's all dark over here baby. Ooh, we hopefully ain't no storm baby. So guess what guys? We're almost ready to a prop. I'm gonna show you right now. Check this out. You see that right there? It says 86 miles. Look at the gas. 89 miles. So if I wouldn't have got off right now baby, I would have made it there. But it was looking real ugly. So I'm about to go to this gas station and get this gas and get back to this cash. You know what I'm talking about? I can't take that chance baby. Let's see how much it's gonna cost to fill this baby up again. As you guys can see, their gas is definitely hiding our $60.97. Check it out baby. I had to get this for y'all. I had to get that for y'all. That joint looking right, beautiful. Waiting. This joint looking right, I just, yeah. We are finally here baby. Somebody behind me. I gotta back this joint in baby. Somebody got the fork truck. I don't know how it is gonna fit in there but I don't know how it's gonna happen. We'll figure it out. Let's go. It's not gonna work. I think we can roll it in. Yeah. Station baby. So we are at $82.22. I'm gonna put $17 and 78 sit in this joint baby. So we're gonna see if we can do it with $100 angle lot. When I got close to the home, this wind is blowing, blowing. We have about 92 more miles to go. The gas light came on so we're gonna do this and go keep on getting busy. I'm glad you guys are with me. I wanna get exactly $100, see if we can do it. Guess what? It is the next day. We got the clap and A-V-A-B. But guess what? We made. So I know you guys are wondering how was my first run? It was my first time ever doing a drive this long and it was by myself. I told you guys before that it was 335 miles. The 335 miles was just from my house to the pickup, to the drop off. But I did have to come back home. So all together I drove 701 miles. The question is, was it worth? And I actually ended up getting, instead of 530, I was like 536,000 because it took me a few more minutes long than it was supposed to take. Honestly, was it worth it? No, monetarily it was not worth it. But the experience was absolutely worth it. I learned a lot of things. And we're gonna go over the things that I learned. Number one, I know you all saw what I did. Guess what I did? Why did I tweak so hard when I was gonna go pick up that barrel? Look, I got the dolly right there. Tweaking, tweaking. Instead I wanna roll it off cause I was not thinking properly cause I'm trying to hurry up and move. And a lot of times when you're doing something new, you kinda panic sometimes. Something ain't going right. For me at least. Come up and let me know if you feel the same way. Number two, always, when you talk to them, always, always, always acts. If you have a van, always acts do they have an overhead door? Because that's the reason why we ran into that problem in the first place. They did tell me that they had docks and they had a forklift and everything to lift everything out. But when I get there, as you guys saw, it was only for semi. Number three, I found out this smoke can travel about 325 miles. That is with the heat on on a full tank of gasoline. That's number three. Number four, I found out that personally I can at least at minimum drive 700 miles alone. I know I can do that. In 11 to 12 hours of driving because I went there and shot right back. That's what I found out about that. Another thing that I learned was, guess what, nighttime driving is way better. But I would have preferred to leave at night and then as you drive it, it turned into day. So I'm gonna leave like it around two or three in the morning. Two or three in the morning. So by the time you get busy on the road, you ain't gotta worry about everything. Everything is light and you're gonna be able to stay awake longer. You're not gonna get as tired. Now, this whole experience was so great for me because I actually get to try the different things that I want to try. I didn't know what I'm really capable of and I didn't know what I really want to do. That's what we're doing at Gigash right now. As you guys know, I have told some of you in the comments section that we are only in phase one for the Sprinter Van. We're only in phase one. We're not in phase two, three. We're only in phase one and that is us doing the abs. Now, as far as over the road goes, to be completely honest with you guys, over the road is not for me. It's not, I already know that. It's not for me. I can tell you right now, I'm a QBG here with you guys. Over the road is not for me. 700 miles was cool. I think my sweet spot may be around 300, 350 miles round trip. That's me coming all the way back home. That's staying local. That's perfect for me.  Ugh, get busy like that. So I would rather do that. Now, I would do over the road only if I wanted to get to a destination. For instance, I know you guys remember, if you're new to the channel, you don't remember, but you can go back and watch the video. But I went to North Carolina to see my cousin. Now, if I had an order that's going down on North Carolina, I could go down there and chill with them for a little while. I would do that, drive down there, chill out with them for a little while, then try to get to one coming back. Also, it's gonna bring me right into this section. I drove a lot of dead miles, a lot of dead miles. If you don't know what a dead miles is, that means pretty much miles you're not getting paid for. So, I drove 335 miles and I got paid for that. But I drove 335 miles back and I did not get paid for that. So, all in all, that's why it was not a good order. But I did, I'm cool with the order. I know some big bad way you would take, but look, I'm learning this is my first time ever doing this. So, we gotta learn and earn. And if you pay, guess what? It ain't your concern. It ain't your concern, baby. Don't worry about what I do. You just do what you do. Now, we're gonna get started. I told you guys already that we are earning in phase one. Everybody be saying, get on that board.  Get on that one low board. Get on what is it called? Select this low board. Get on one, two, three low boards. I understand those are some great low boards, but guess what? When people don't tell you or what you don't know is, you have to pay a lot of money for those low boards, sometimes between $400 to $500 to $600 a month for the low board. Also, not to mention, with a lot of those low boards, guess what? You must have a DOT. And guess what we don't got? A DOT, we don't got a DOT, baby. And, let's go leave it to this. We are still using regular insurance. That's what a lot of people don't know. So a lot of people may say that this order was absolutely terrible. You should never do that. You should get on that low board, but I'm not paying $500 some dollars a month to be on that low board. And I'm not paying between $500 and $2,000 a month for insurance. I'm only paying like $95. So, you know what, I'm only paying $90 for that. That leaves me to this. Stop trying to do what everybody else is doing. You're not everybody else. I had to find out. Over the road is not for me.  Something, you have to be built for this type of stuff. It's not for everybody. I had to learn that. But, I want to say this. You guys need to run your own race. Stop worrying about what everybody else doing.  Stop looking over here, looking over here. Everybody want to worry about what everybody else doing. But guess what? While you're worrying about what everybody else doing, you're losing time on working on yourself. I hope you guys enjoyed the video. Again, if you are not subscribed, go and hit the subscribe button. Give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. And lock in tomorrow because we get back to the bag. Why don't we get back to the bag? The 2023 is a big bad season. We don't keep on getting my reason. I'll see you guys on the next one. Be cool, be cool, be cool. And you already know I'm in the DDK and I'm on my way.


there you go i decided to turn the car around so now i'm facing the sun the late afternoon sun peaking through right in between two sections of the mountain lots of dogs coming for the run anyway that was a good run quite a cool breeze late in the afternoon and so quite a quite a good pace one video i played it for today at least i've had a chance to make some i run so late in the afternoon and then you know it's either running or making a video and i come for runs so it's very difficult these days anyway there's one video we're looking at some of the interesting things you can do with group actions in abstract algebra and that is starting at least to look at the orbit stabilizer theorem and in today's video particularly i look at what the orbit of a set is in abstract algebra i've also made a mathematical notebook and i'll put some links in where you can download the notebook remember you can always use mathematical free online and i'll put some links to that as well so if you're interested in the notes that go that i'm starting to make at least to go with the abstract algebra have a have a look at that otherwise hopefully i can i can do both video recording and a run tomorrow and i'll see you then


I made a huge mistake. What's up, guys? We're back with another sad, sad Yu-Gi-Oh video. I did something that, as a Yu-Gi-Oh YouTuber, I should know better. I made a mistake that only a novice could make. What is that mistake, you ask? I didn't open my case of dark wing blast blisters before they reprinted all the good cards. So that means I have an entire case of blister packs of dark wing blasts, and they've just reprinted Fenrir. They've reprinted the Belleon. They've reprinted some of the Starlights even, the Cartesia. I mean, half the card dug half value now. I've had this for months. All I had to do was open it up in a video. I make videos every day. I had plenty of opportunity to open it up, and yet I didn't. So before we get into how sad that is, and we'll open up some of these packs and potentially pull some half value cards, we have a giveaway. I'll be giving away this Master Collection 2 set of promos, all six of them. That includes the Blackluster Soldier. That's some pretty amazing stuff, Exodia Necrosse. Just like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications. Let me know a mistake that you've made when it comes to Yu-Gi-Oh! And how dumb am I for sitting on these for two months while they were 50 bucks in a Belleon, 60, whatever they were, Fenrir.  And keep it nice, okay? Okay, so this isn't just about me being dumb and not opening these in time to actually get the cards out before they get reprinted and killed in value, which is a whole other discussion that we sort of talked about before. We could talk about it a little bit more in another video. But I also have never pulled the Blackwing Dragon. Still haven't pulled the Starlight. So we are still looking for that. There are still some good cards in here, even though a lot of them I've seen reprints. I mean, we still got the Blazing Cartesius Starlight. We got the Lady Labyrinth Starlight. I mean, there's some good stuff. The Blackwing is the second to worst one, actually, but there's good stuff that we could get out of here. And these are still blister packs while they are from a case. Shouldn't mean they're pretty crazy in terms of ratios. So I'm hoping that in this video, cucumber horse, this is still an awesome set, even though this just got to reprint as well. Tilting and train mint, okay. I haven't opened this in a while. Cashier Ogre just got a reprint in the Megatons. That was a, I think it was a secret in the Megatons. If you guys don't know, Konami did actually take a break for a month on releases. So the next releases until next month, but then they go crazy again. There's like three in a row. So I'm kind of in like a dead period of no free content. I don't get to open, you know, there's not like a new set every like two weeks, which, you know, it's a good thing for Yu-Gi-Oh, I think, but it's a bad thing for me having easy content. So I was looking around like, what can I make a video about? There's a superhero, okay. And then I was like, wait, is that a Darkwing Blast case that I never opened? I technically did open and I think I opened like 10 blisters. So that doesn't really count. I sold like, I think they come in 240 in cases of blisters. So 230 packs left that I didn't open. And I was like, oh no. And then I thought back, wait, we just opened Megatons. Remember how many Darkwing Blast cards were in there? Oh, the best cards in the set, Fenrir. Oh yeah, Loubellion, the top two cards. They're both from this set. Oh, I could open these and have the original prints and sold them for way more money before the reprint. But instead, your boy, which is me, by the way, decided that he wanted to open them for half price. So yeah, not the best feeling. These used to be one of the absolute best values to open up. You can go check out my older Darkwing Blast videos. And I just love this set because there were so many different things like Superswort. There are a couple of Supers. The best deal stuff was crazy. Got reprinted, by the way. The Supers were like 10 bucks and stuff. Then that even got a reprint. The whole set's in the Megaton basically. And then there's the Ultras. They had like the Fenrir, which is really expensive. There's a secret Loubellion. The Unicorn was good. The Unicorn's not even a dollar in the tens. There was 20 in here when it first came out. It was an insane open. Like you could get so many good cards. With me and Simo put together, pulled the Starlight Rare, which was one of the coolest moments. We might even flashback to it after we finish this pack right here. Very nice. Yeah, just an epic moment that happened right here. That's so good. So I've had some really good times with this set and also some really, really sad times, which is right now, this is a sad time that all the cards are not worth anything. Not necessarily not worth anything. Because like the Fenrir's still 20 bucks, which is still pretty good. Loubellion's still 27. That's still pretty good. I mean, that's money. Corticia is down at 17. I'm sure these are going to go down even more as we go. I think I'll add three from the back, but it'll be fine. As the Megatins get more dispersed, these are going to go down even more, most likely. If I had to guess, they are original print, but it doesn't mean that much when they're, you know, a super rare version versus a secret. People are going to want the Prismatic Secret. It just looks better. It's a little bit of a bittersweet video reminiscing on one of my favorite sets of 20. Was this 2022? Yes, it was definitely 2022. This got a reprint as well in there. Definitely 2022. Yeah, it was definitely not 2021. That was a long time ago. Serenir. So this got a, it's like a $7 secret. So I think this card got better for, maybe they limited one of them. Or maybe it was the banless speculation that it was going up a little bit because it might be a new replacement or something. I don't know. You guys know I'm not playing right now. I haven't even been playing Master Duel, much less regular TCG. So I've been slacking a little bit. We have Yoshiro of the Aqua again, the maiden of the Aqua Retrain, which is for some reason in here. Cucumber we have tilting, cashier ogre, a Druis Swarm. That's a great card. That's one of the best cards of the Megatons in secret. So even the Super I expect, it's still probably going to be a dollar. We'll see, but you know, maybe because everybody wants a secret, it's not. We'll have to see what it falls out at. But it ends up being one, two, three, four. We have Origin, original bamboo sword, not Origin. Salmon, Spiritualist, Preparations, Goaty. Venus slip in full bloom. And Blackwing, Chinook, the Snow Blast. We're not going to open the whole case today, by the way. So, you know, that would be a long video because blisters take a pretty long time to open because you got to open the blister and then the pack. So it's like two or three times as long as opening a regular pack. So we're not going to open the whole case, but we are going to open probably like 25, 30 packs over a booster box, see what we can get. Maybe we can pull something crazy. I'm still doing three from the back. I'm just used to doing three, okay? I still think this is an incredible set, just in general. It's just a really nice set to when you can have value cards at every level, besides common. But at this point, it's really hard to have a common view or something. But, you know, when it goes super ultra and secret and starlight, there's all good cards in all four of those rarities. That's just a good way to have value in the set. So I think Konami should take note and potentially try and do that more in the future.  Add super rare. And the thing that that does is first of all, it makes the supers have some value. Second of all, it means when they do like the reprints, the reprint as you see in the tins, the bestial stuff goes, you know, the super rares can go upgraded and be like some of the best cards in the set. So that's always a plus, you know? And then those aren't even like drew a swarm again. This we're actually getting really luck with these supers. And these aren't even like generic cards and they're still doing well in the tins because like you have to be a pretty generic card to go like really expensive. You have to be like pot of prosperity or something.   They do short print stuff sometimes, but it's pretty easy to pull everything. It's a cheap product overall. Like usually it's like 180 bucks to buy a case versus like a case of, you know, regular stuff. It's 600, 700 bucks, stuff like that. Just easier to obtain and it floods the market because it's usually such a good reprint, you know, overall set so people are all buying it. So holding value there is pretty tough. So that, you know, coming out from a super and then going to a secret and actually holding value is pretty amazing. And we'll see how well they do it because, you know, they just came out. But I just think that having a lot of value over the different rarities, like a nice spread, you don't want, you know, all the value to be in secrets or all the value to be in ultras because then you're only looking for the ultras.   But if you have hits in ultra secret and you have chances at the supers, you have a potential chance that hit in every single pack. It doesn't go away. Like once you've pulled the four ultras or the two secrets, you know, you could pull something everywhere. So it's a really like, it just makes opening more fun. It makes, there's a better spread. There's a me too. That's not a good card. Not a good ultra. And even the starlight's like 50 bucks, but it just makes it better for everybody. I think a lot of people, I've noticed like on my video that, you know, has all the views now from me just talking about the problem with Yu-Gi-Oh. Surprisingly, like crazy amount of views, but there's a lot of comments. When you do have, you know, when it gets to that many people, there's gonna be some comments. And just a lot of people just don't understand that Yu-Gi-Oh is an economy that we have to consider.  You know, you don't care about the stores. You don't care about the, you know, the sellers. You don't care about Konami. You don't care about any of that. You just care about getting cheap cards. But you should care about it because if you don't care about the Konami, if you don't care about the economy, the, the Konami, the Konami, that's an interesting thing. If you don't care about the economy of the cards, you know, eventually it's gonna crash and burn because unfortunately everything does revolve around if people are making money on it. Because that's just how it works. Konami's not making money doing Yu-Gi-Oh. They're not gonna do Yu-Gi-Oh. If stores aren't making money selling Yu-Gi-Oh, they're not gonna do Yu-Gi-Oh. Maybe players is the one thing. Players, they don't have to make money. But here's the thing about players. They need money to actually buy the cards, you know? So it kind of comes around, you know?  And then you're buying the cards. There has to be some money flowing out to like buy the cards. There's just a, there's just a lot going on. And I don't think people will realize that when they're buying cards and they don't really care. But it is something, Spellbound Secret Rare, very nice. It's something that we really should care about. And not that we want it to be expensive. It's just that we want the value for our money to be good. And I don't know how I got off on this tangent. But basically, oh yeah, because Darkwing Blast is such a good product. You want to spend your 65 bucks or 70. Because if the box is so good, it's worth 80. And when you open it up, you get like a lot of value out of it. Then it's not as big of a deal to pay 80. But if people want you to pay 80 for something that stinks, obviously that is not fun. So, and obviously it doesn't make any sense. Because why would you do it? Because it's not worth it. But if you open something up and you're getting like super awesome rarities, you're getting good cards in every rarity slot. You're potential to pull like a, you know, a great card is much, much higher than every other set. You're getting playable cards everywhere, everything you open up. It's just so much more worth it. The experience is worth it. The cards you get are worth it. It's just a better thing for everybody. Cashier Unicorn, there we go. Very nice card. Used to be 20 bucks. And now we can pop it up and just see how much we lost right here. So, enough of that sidetrack thing. But you guys can let me know in the comments what you think about that. It is something that I think about all the time. There is a side of Yu-Gi-Oh that some people just don't really realize that, you know, there is some importance to the card's maintaining value. And if we keep releasing these stinky sets, and the reason I keep bringing it up is because this set is so good. Like Darkwing Blast was amazing. And I hope we can have more Darkwing Blast. Like there's no reason we can't have a couple Darkwing Blasts a year. You know, great sets that are really awesome. We want more than a couple, honestly. We want to have four of them. Four great sets a year. That would be really nice. And then the reprints, you know? We don't need so many reprints, I think. I feel like we're getting crazy. Rarity Collection and Megaton, and Battles of Legend. And I feel like, is there another one that I missed? I guess Maven's was last year, so I guess Rarity Collection took that spot. But three reprints, you know, might be a little bit too much. If there's four, then I missed one. But OTS is all reprints, too. The thing about these great sets is they hold up better if they don't have, like, everything reprinted, you know? So if this could, like, last a couple years, you know?  I don't know. Maybe if they just had a bigger print run of these. Who knows? Who knows? We'll figure it out one day. I don't know if we will, actually. Valence. Those didn't get a reprint. That was funny. Somebody was like, they didn't reprint the Valence cards. And I was like, I wonder why. This has been fun. It's been fun. I've just been kind of chatting along. So hopefully you guys have enjoyed this. More of a discussion video, as we were doing the opening, which I don't know if you guys like that. If you guys like what I'm just rambling while opening some cards, it's kind of like, it reminds me of a TikTok thing. You know, you're watching a Subway Surfer while you're also listening to somebody talk. It's almost the same thing as this video. All right. It's our last pack here. I think we've opened, like, 30 packs or something. I didn't actually count them. But we've got an eight. Only once? If we really got one secret? It's kind of rough, actually. We did pretty good other than that. Let's see. Will there be a Blackwing in here? Blackwing Starlight. Who knows? Who knows? Let's see if we can do it. We have the Silent Wolf Kalupo. Great noodle. Black Shadow Squall. Celestial. Secret Arts. We have Decisive Battle. The Zongna. Neutrary Mole Cricket. Okay. We got to open a couple more packs. We only got one secret. All right. I'm going to add five packs to the mix. So give us five more chances at a secret here. Come on, Secret Rare. I think we got a spellbound, and that was it. Let's get in a loot belly on. That would be nice. How about we get a Finn Rear as well? How about that? Or Blazy Cartesia. That's a good secret. Or a Starlight, obviously. Camellia. Great noodle. Shadow Squall. Also, we'll probably be doing another search for the Blackwing Dragon very soon. So if you want to see that, let me know in the comments that you are hyped about it. Let me know how important is it that we pull the Blackwing?  Or is it like whatever? I don't care about the Blackwing. Personally, I just feel like it's a, you know, it's a missed thing we did. We missed the Blackwing. It's unfinished business. That's what I'm searching for. Turbo Tainted.  And it's Super OC. Another Meets you. Honestly, we'll probably pull that as a Starlight again. I think that's what we pulled the first time. Did we ever pull another one? Oh, yeah. The C-mo moment, obviously. The Rue Clothes we did pull. That was sweet. Why did I have open packs of that? I can't remember. Something about the live stream. I really can't remember. Coggero. Mold Cricketly. A Catalyzer. Coggero. We have Power Load. Okay, Dinosaur. Two more packs, guys. It's been an interesting video. Definitely a little bit different than our normal. Haven't talked much about... I guess I have been talking about this the whole time, haven't I? Basically. So maybe I have. Four from the back. Maybe even more than usual. Who knows? Laughing Puffin. That got like a Super, didn't it? Curse of Arama Tier, not Arama Seer. We have Zonda. Tribegade. Silver Sword Master. Okay. Last pack magic. Here we go. We're just clearing out the bad ones for later, right? Final pack of Darkwing Blast. Hope you guys have enjoyed this video. Don't forget to subscribe to the channel. I can't speak. Hit that sub button. I'll say sub. That'll make it a little bit easier.  It will be guaranteed fun on the channel. So I can grow over it by guarantee.  Let's go. We have Turbo Tainted. Amazon is Pet Liger. Last pack magic here. Can we do it? Starlight Wear Blackwing Dragon. No, we can't. Shout out to Tomefo Show, Daxter, Tomato Juice, Puffins of Doom, Ernesto Dina, America Doisier, Supreme Stage 21, CJ, and then a Thai show Ian Moosa Jr. Barting Robert F. and Thomas McLean. Thank you guys for supporting the channel. I'll see you guys in the next video. Peace.