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Title: Palaestria
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Palaestria
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- Knowledge producing megamachines
- - and the social enterpreneurship
Laszlo Z. Karvalics
Digital Vision Program, Stanford University,
April 5th, 2007
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Palaestra
- Place for the Physical education
- Place for Games
- Place for Intellectual activity and learning
- Everywhere in the Greco-Roman world
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Olympia
- The Palaestra, 3rd century BC
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Sardis Palaestra
- This building was excavated and reconstructed by
the Harvard and Cornell Universities expedition
to Sardis.
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Leptis Magna (Libya)
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Ankara, Anatolia
Built by Caracalla (211-217)
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Cyprus, Salamis
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Tunisia, Palaestra Petronii
- built by Petronius Felix, 225 AD
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Palaestria Utopia or Social Innovation?
The best way to predict the future is to invent
is (Alan Kay)
- The Vision of Palaestria 800 million students
(between 12 and 18 years), 40 million teachers, 5
million scientists of the World, merging into a
scientific problem solving megamachine - Information age science
- Information age education
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Abstraction Perspective
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Canopy Walkway
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The control crisis of Science
1.station
(James Beniger, 1986)
- Astonishing sign production lack in
processing/transforming capacity (brains) - Financial bottlenecks
- Organizational disfunctions
- Shortage in human resources
- Cyberscience, intensification not enough
- Need for MORE BRAINS
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Where are the brains?
- SETI_at_home
- Stardust
- Hobby-scientists?
- ProAms?
- Small, hardly manageable, ad hoc communities
- THEY ARE IN CLASSROOMS
- THE SCHOOL a well-organized knowledge
(re)producing megamachine
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Is it possible to make real Science in this
age-group?
- Thousands of examples
- Existing projects
- The End of the Wunderkind
- The teacher as knowledge broker
- Lifelong research contribution for everybody as
an option - Motivation to learn
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Control revolution in Public Education
- From banking education to co-intentional
education - From direct, one-dimensional, local, bureacratic
(community and political) control to
multi-stakeholder, de-centralized, global control - Involvement, participation and choice instead of
passive knowledge acquisition
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The Megamachine at work
- Hybrid online clusters
- Competition for (human) resources
- Cooperative and open platforms
- New workflow solutions
- Introductory games
- Re-algorythmisable living objects and creative
processes
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Disciplines to start
- Astronomy/Space research
- Biology/ Biotechnology/ Genetics/ Environmental
Sciences /Ecology complex - Archaeology/History
- Too many individual objects and relations
- Cyberscience infrastructure and large-scale sign
production - Directly touches everybodys life
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Where are the social enterpreneurs in Palaestria?
- Ice-breakers in generating pilot projects
- Champions of extending local best practices to
global level - Active players in the new, distributed control
environment of public education and science - Evangelists and push-groups of the transition
- Co-designers of the biggest social innovation
ever - Supporters/sponsors of the Megamachine-development
and dissemination of the results
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The next steps
- Friends of Palaestria project and homepage
- First scientific publications and books
- Discourse generating
- Allied forces from different disciplines
- Pilots (10.000 students, 500 teachers, 20
scientists) - Specification of software needs
- Pool of existing best practices
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Discussion time
- Thank you for the invitation
- Thank you for your attention
- Thank you for your questions
- Thank you for your future support (if any)
zkl_at_itm.bme.hu
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