To a global, virtual, free, open, {future degree- & credit-granting}, multilingual University & School for the developing world and everyone, as well as loving bliss ~ scottmacleod.com
In what ways will WUaS develop BRAINWAVE headset learning WITH best STEM CC OCW (eg MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) in Wikidata for online degrees - and in all 7,943 languages too?
In envisioning this (and re this blog's previous posts about brainwave headsets), I could see learners (in a Google Glass-connected brainwave headset for example) searching through MIT OCW's 2300 courses for what specific information they would need to engage next and uniquely in a 36 course undergraduate degree program.
But the great aspect of learning via the Conference Method and wiki is that learners can interactively engage, share what they are learning as learning, and teach as learners, but particular converse for idea generation.
Will one be able to add links and articles and academic papers by drawing an icon with one's brainwave headset from one side of a screen to another, thus contributing to a learning conversation?
Will one be able to co-compose with one's mind in a virtual world like OpenSim a musical motif or a film or theatrical narrative which then another co-composing could interweave their narrative with.
So with both textual, imagistic and musical symbolizing ...
Will try to post some examples of current brain wave headsets and how they work from this blog .. :)
Heard a nice performance by the Danish String Quartet on Friday at UC
Berkeley - identity (an anthropological/sociological concept too) comes
through the musicians (they're good) and their musical choices, as well.
How to grow meditative musical "identity" which is also freeing (and
loving and caring, among friends) is a question I'm wondering about?
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Dear Friends Association for Higher Education,
Due to financial reasons, Friendly-informed World University and School won't be able to travel to, attend or present at the FAHE conference in June at Woodbrooke in England, I'm sorry to say.
Please let young Friends in the British Isles and at FAHE know of this online CC (free) MIT OCW-centric degree opportunity to apply this autumn 2016 to WUaS (as if applying to MIT, Haverford, Stanford, or Oxbridge, for example) and matriculate online in the autumn of 2017 for a 4 year accrediting undergraduate bachelor's degree (with subsequent Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees, as well as I.B. high school diplomas, planned), and eventually in countries' main languages. These subsequent degrees and languages, in particular, could benefit FAHE and Quakers worldwide.
Friendly greetings,
Scott
http://worlduniversityandschool.org
Will Google's free ecosystem - Gmail, Translate, Blogspot, Youtube, Profiles, GDocs, Maps, Earth, Street View, Classroom, TensorFlow AI software, and much more, all accessible on the smartphone and in the Android ecosystem - as an ISLAND (even with its advertising) ... around which Google's publicly traded for profit company flows ... be a great model for WUaS's 501 c 3 Creative Commons' CORE for free best STEM CC OCW degrees in ~204 countries' main languages, around which WUaS is exploring developing a commercial side, with bookstore, for example, all planned in all 7,943 languages?
Seems likely ...
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Digital heritage, Scotland article ...
I just emailed this to a friend and Scottish Country Dance
instructor Linn H who comes from a town, North Berwick, close
to Edinburgh - "Remembering: The Scottish victory at the Battle of Roslin" ... http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/historic-events/remembering-the-scottish-victory-at-the-battle-of-roslin-1-4036636 - and she just emailed me back saying Berwick-upon-Tweed (in England) mentioned in this article isn't the same as North Berwick (in East Lothian, Scotland).
I haven't been able yet to go back in Google Street View to
the time of the article to do similar tours, but about which I'd like
to plan for research-wise and re WUaS! :) Interesting that this
significant Scots' history takes place so close to where you come from."
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I hope such Google Street View potentialities for history and tourism will become possible soon for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ... for all STEM researchers, as well as tourists, in all 7,943 languages.
As WUaS begins to develop further in a Berkeley Law class, I'm wondering how to begin valuing WUaS economically and financially.
My first approach, given WUaS's longstanding plans to build an endowment bigger than Harvard's (and possibly for each country's World University) - and given WUaS's plans to be in all countries and in their main and official languages, each an university, and to create flourishing wiki schools too for open teaching and learning in all 7,943 languages (http://glottolog.org/glottolog/language), and with AI and machine learning - would be to estimate Harvard's endowment at potentially around 50 billion dollars (the largest of any university in the world, as I understand this) and multiply this by 204 countries (per the 2008 Olympics) and then adjust for population size etc. So 50 billion dollars times 200 nation states equals 10 trillion U.S. dollars, as WUaS's plans for endowments for just the ~ 200 universities we plan to develop.
On top of this, WUaS would like to develop wiki schools in another ~ 7800 languages and each of these may have endowments too.
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If WUaS decides to organize around schools within any given online university, for example, in the Japan World University and School in Japanese, WUaS has 36 academic departments, each of these actually schools, WUaS will factor this into endowments' generation too.
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As further relevant material World University and School may want to share with our Berkeley Law "New Business Practicum," I began yesterday some "back of the envelope" or "in the blog" valuations of WUaS here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/02/pomegranate-seeds-valuing-wuas-as-wuas.html (very rough and very early) - all of which may become relevant in collaborating with governments in all 204 countries in offering a free, MIT-centric, CC education in countries' main and official languages, - and in planning for a WUaS bookstore as well.
For example, China WUaS, with a population of about 4 times the US, - re their share of WUaS endowment generation could be around $200 billion or 4 times Harvard's endowment, which would be United States of America WUaS's target ($50 billion) for our own endowment here currently. These figures (10 trillion dollars just for the 204 universities, excluding the remaining ~ 7,800 wiki schools), large as they are, may begin to have implications for all kinds of legal and financial planning re "New Business Practicum."
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The significant thing with the online WUaS bookstore, planned for all 7,943+ languages, is to create online markets for ALL of these languages, which might contribute to even regenerating the smaller languages and to online learning for matriculated and wiki-open learners and students. Each of these languages will begin as wiki subject pages/schools in each of those languages, as you probably know and based on this central SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_En_Wiki/index.php?title=Template:SUBJECT_TEMPLATE (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE) - so this is where the universitians will find the licensing. These online bookstores in all ~8000 languages will be accomplished with the internet and primarily in databases and eventually with AI.
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For my upcoming Harbin ethnographic book, I'm offering 4 free meditations ...
4 special gifts including a companion meditation album for all pre-orders of my actual~virtual "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book. PRE-ORDER AT http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html before February 14th and quickly receive 4 free bonus gifts!
... http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ~ and while no one has requested these yet, what I have in mind is sharing some Harbin poems I've written over the years - some of which get me "there" to a kind of "Harbin experience," which is enjoyably transformative. And I think some of these poems will get readers "there" too :)
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So thinking informing action with regard to the example of meditating on developing World University and School might lead to openings and further writing and symbolization about this which is creative and generative ...
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In what ways can I begin to blog soon in German for improving my writing skills?
In welche Weise kann Ich bald mein elektronische Tagebuch auf Deutsch zu schreiben anfangen um mein Deutschschreiben zu verbessern?
From Google Translate:
Auf welche Weise kann ich anfangen zu verbessern meine Schreibfähigkeiten bald auf Deutsch zu bloggen?
Can I begin to use Google Translate as a teacher fruitfully?
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In what ways too can I begin to focus this blog in terms of philosophy (western analytic as well as linguistically an especially meditatively ... Meditative philosophy ~ evolutionary biologically informed ~ and logically oriented; what are some of its moving precursors)?
Also from Google Translate:
In welcher auch Möglichkeiten, kann ich anfangen, diesen Blog in Bezug auf die Philosophie (westliche analytische als sprachlich besonders meditativ als auch ... Meditative Philosophie ~ evolutionäre biologisch informiert ~ und logisch orientiert, was sind einige seiner bewegten Vorläufer) zu konzentrieren?
I sit every morning and release into a relaxation response, inner releasing action meditation (partly informed by the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool). I sit in half lotus and also daily bend forward into yoga mudrasana {e.g. from half lotus bending forward to head on the ground on both sides}, which I find deepens the releasing bodymind-wise. I find this process very salutary and I sit in meditation first thing, enjoy doing so, and don't feel ambivalent about sitting. I've done this for years. I think of this as a biological process, not mediated by culture or symbols, and therefore a biological attuning.
I'm curious how to focus this meditating further. I've enjoyed Angela and Victor's yoga which involves a freeing up of the inner body (from some of the strictures and limiting traditions and religious aspects, I'd say, of yoga), and a kind of liberation too, while also being informed by yoga poses - and in reaction against Iyengar yoga too in some ways. But many religious traditions from Hinduism to Buddhism, where meditation is central, have developed specific true-over-time practices of meditation, including, for example, meditating on mandalas, candle flames, with an unsung chant, or musically with chanting among so many other practices.
Learning from these mediation traditions, but with an evolutionary biological approach in terms of a biological inner releasing action {that is also non-theistic and friendly, and F/friendly as Quaker informed too - since I see Quaker Meeting as a meditation too - and I tend toward the atheistic here}, I'm curious what kind of meditating one could do, newly and creatively, on natural mandalas for centering, for example, ... on circular flowers? But I don't meditate daily for what I would call centering.
And could one or I meditate World University and School, for example, into existence focusing on specific openings not yet envisioned?
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Here's where we can openly wiki teach and learn about this planned in any of 7,943 languages ...
How might a disabled or handicapped WUaS
student & in their room/home in a group VIDEO conferencing classroom in Google Street View in the Addison Museum in the Boston area, for example, add to experience of learning?
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Appreciating this Stanford University Online High School approach to group video classroom - https://ohs.stanford.edu/take-tour/classroom - accessible here - https://ohs.stanford.edu/take-tour - and especially re World University and School's pedagogical plans for engaging the Conference Method re Reed College but online in developing new ways.
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Appreciating greatly Stanford as a model for excellence in a university (offering bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees) with a California ethos (which includes being laid back, and influenced particularly by the 1960s in the SF Bay Area). And as outgoing President John Hennessy (after 16 years) here recently said, I think - it's taken 30-40 years to get Stanford where it is today.
Great Leadership Can Be Learned [Entire Talk]
John Hennessy, Stanford University
with Tina Seelig, Stanford Technology Ventures Program
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I hope WUaS (seeking to offer bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees) can focus for 30-40 years ahead, like Stanford has, to create major online universities in all countries' main languages that build on and from the greatness of Stanford.
Looking forward to your talk on Tuesday at UC Berkeley - http://matrix.berkeley.edu/event/new-flagship-university-john-douglas - in the same hall where I heard Rebecca MacKinnon and panel talk this past week at a CSHE event too. (I'll be coming from a Stanford Law event - with General Counsel CDK - which ends at 2:15, so hope to arrive by 4:10, if traffic isn't an issue).
I want to introduce you to World University and School (WUaS), which is like CC Wikipedia with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare and is planning to offer online CC degrees - bachelor, Ph.D., law, and M.D., as well as I.B. high school (accrediting with BPPE/WASC senior on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC to begin) in all ~200 countries' main languages. CC Wikipedia is in ~300 languages and they've created a new inter-lingual database over the past 3 years developing with artificial intelligence and machine learning which CC WUaS plans to build in as well; WUaS plans too to facilitate wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,943+ languages eventually, plus much more.
WUaS is currently a "client" in UC Berkeley Law course "New Business Practicum" with Professor Bill Kell, where we're seeking to develop legal and financial approaches to this developing business plan - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html - and collaborate with UC Berkeley and all of the University of California especially with regard to infrastructure.
In addition, WUaS is seeking to be incubated by the University of California for accreditation under a new developing incubation policy at WASC senior, where we're in some communication about this with UC Hastings' Law Professor emeritus BW. Late last year WUaS heard back from Stanford University's President John Hennessy that they wouldn't incubate us under this new WASC policy; startup WUaS was very glad to have heard back from President Hennessy.
Not only does WUaS seek to become the Harvard of the Internet and to create major online universities in all countries' main languages, but we also seek to become a major academic employer in all nearly ~ 8,000 languages perhaps eventually becoming twice the size of IBM (which employs about 426,000 people), so creating 852,000-1 million academic jobs (but not as big as Walmart's 2.2 million worldwide employees).
Looking forward to hearing your talk, meeting you and talking further, John! You have published so many interesting papers relating to "The New Flagship University."
- World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
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Re, where Stanford University Online High School is third after the two Phillips Academies (Andover and Exeter, where my grandfather went to high school):
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I met with Raymond Ravaglia, the head of the Stanford University Online High School, about 5 years ago in person ...
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There are a lot of Ph.D.s among teachers here at Stanford University Online High School ... and a great significant focus on philosophy ... :) ... and with jobs especially :)
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Hi M,
While not polity, this is a great vision - https://ohs.stanford.edu/take-tour#video . Stanford does video so well like so much else with excellence. Will blog about this today probably ...
Please note that one course is defined as a year-long course. Two semester-long courses taken in different semesters would be viewed as one course for the purposes of tuition.
* Tuition does not cover books, course materials, and extracurricular expenses for event attendance, yearbooks, etc.
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How to get into teaching (in general)? … and make it generative, even if tiring, is a question I give some thought to in a variety of ways … same with playing a musical instrument … where one just wants to do it because one is a teacher or a musician … I’ll blog about this - https://ohs.stanford.edu/take-tour#video - today, but I find this inspiring as well as a great model for teaching, learning as well as World University and School - (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com) - Stanford is amazing and 50 years after the 1960s and 70s which influenced it significantly being in California … there’s a lot of excellence at Stanford ...
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From a related text conversation with my friend soul who lives in Saudi Arabia:
[2/19/16, 4:41:16 AM] soul: good afternoon! Scott, how r u today?
[2/19/16, 4:41:38 AM] soul: just wanna tell u that on thursday my superviser attend one of my classes to see hows my performance ...
[2/19/16, 4:43:55 AM] soul: i dont like that .. but anyways, I ll see her on sunday to listen to her feedback
[2/19/16, 4:46:10 AM] soul: shall i go? what do u recommend ? ... wish me the best ;)
[2/19/16, 7:16:50 AM] Scott MacLeod: Hi Soul! Glad you’re feeling better, at least enough to go to school to teach. Your supervisor attending your class can be scary (I don’t like this either), but also a great and important(!) network - and your English is excellent - and I bet you’re a great teacher too. Yes - share some food with her on Sunday … :)
[2/19/16, 8:10:51 AM] soul: Thank u Scott u always make me feel happy and believe in my self
[2/19/16, 8:11:24 AM] Scott MacLeod: :)
[2/19/16, 8:17:17 AM] soul: 3 teachers attended my classes before and they enjoy a lot... this make me continue to be a teacher and not to choose another job. Also, my student love me and hug me, espcially 2 and 3 elementary levels. :$ :P
[2/19/16, 8:18:24 AM] soul: But sometimes i wish i can quit and find another job cuz teaching takes great effort from ones life
[2/19/16, 8:20:08 AM] Scott MacLeod: 3 teachers enjoyed your classes a lot in the past? surprise, surprise :) :) … and this makes you continue you on as a teacher, not choosing another job … music to my ears :) … Your students love you and hug you … can’t get much better than this … 2nd and 3rd elementary levels (2nd and 3rd grades in the US perhaps - possbily 7-10 year olds?) …
[2/19/16, 8:24:32 AM] Scott MacLeod: How to get into teaching … and make it generative, even if tiring, is a question I give some thought to in a variety of ways … same with playing a musical instrument … where one just wants to do it because one is a teacher or a musician … I’ll blog about this - https://ohs.stanford.edu/take-tour#video - today, but I find this inspiring as well as a great model for teaching, learning as well as World University and School - (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com) - Stanford is amazing and 50 years after the 1960s and 70s which influenced it significantly being in California … there’s a lot of excellence at Stanford ...
[2/19/16, 8:42:52 AM] soul: I ope the link and watched the vedio .. so insipring .. wish one day i study in Standford and meet u ;)
[2/19/16, 8:55:44 AM] soul: Here 2 + 3 their ages are about 7 to 9 ... too young and too noisy (:|
[2/19/16, 8:57:38 AM] Scott MacLeod: That would be great, Soul! … likewise … I like 4-6 year olds as an age group for teaching … but think teaching English as a second language would be better with your age kids … :)
[2/19/16, 9:04:47 AM] soul: Hate when i m typing and receving a call ;(
[2/19/16, 9:05:22 AM] Scott MacLeod: Multi-tasking is an art in the digital age … how to make it musical :)
[2/19/16, 9:09:17 AM] soul: Yup they many of them like English and they enjoy E classes but honestly, i face some who hate English cuz they think it's difficult .. and still try do my best to make them love E
[2/19/16, 9:09:52 AM] soul: Many of them *
[2/19/16, 9:11:10 AM] soul: And still hope to find another job .. (think)
[2/19/16, 9:11:58 AM] Scott MacLeod: thinking you are very inspiring … and through your engagement and interaction … how to find great teachers like you for all 7,943+ languages - will be http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_En_Wiki (and was http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages) and in online video too … like Stanford University Online High School :)
[2/19/16, 9:12:49 AM] Scott MacLeod: actually will be http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_En_Wiki/index.php?title=Languages
[2/19/16, 9:13:04 AM] Scott MacLeod: all from here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/
[2/19/16, 9:21:14 AM] Scott MacLeod: Here’s the virtual classroom at ohs.stanford.edu - https://ohs.stanford.edu/take-tour/classroom - with its seminar video technologies, upon which WUaS will also build (e.g. in Google + Hangouts/Classroom)
[2/19/16, 9:42:43 AM] soul: Sounds great! Can anyone join these virtual classes ?
[2/19/16, 9:44:10 AM] soul: And so sorry for replying late cuz my nephew is bothering me (doh)
[2/19/16, 9:45:19 AM] Scott MacLeod: WUaS has two wings - a) a wiki wing planned online schools in all 8k languages for open teaching and learning … and b) a free CC OCW degree wing for matriculated students … if you check out the private - https://ohs.stanford.edu/ - students from around the world can pay for 4 courses, 2-3 courses or a single course … say hi to your nephew from his new friend Scott :)
[2/19/16, 9:58:44 AM] soul: Good! I ll think about it
[2/19/16, 10:00:29 AM] soul: He says hi too and give u a (lips)
[2/19/16, 10:02:11 AM] Scott MacLeod: :) :) :)
[2/19/16, 10:14:03 AM] soul: Wanna show u puppets i made for teaching purporses
[2/19/16, 10:14:26 AM] Scott MacLeod: In Skype video? :)
[2/19/16, 10:20:22 AM] soul: No pic
[2/19/16, 10:20:28 AM] Scott MacLeod: Great :)
[2/19/16, 10:46:54 AM] soul: Did receive it ?
[2/19/16, 10:47:11 AM] soul: Cuz it dosnt appear to me
[2/19/16, 10:50:08 AM] Scott MacLeod: You can’t get video in Riyadh? Maybe we can try the regular G+ Hangout link I’ve used again and again … and which you were in on Saturday briefly, although I don’d know if you’ve ever been in this in video ...
[2/19/16, 10:53:57 AM] soul: Video ya sure
[2/19/16, 10:54:14 AM] soul: As we usually do together
[2/19/16, 10:54:26 AM] soul: Is that what u mean ?
[2/19/16, 10:54:59 AM] Scott MacLeod: Shall we try? (I should probably take a shower first :))
[2/19/16, 10:56:27 AM] Scott MacLeod: I’ve only seen your G+ photo … but while this may be video too … I suspect it’s only audio and a photo
[2/19/16, 10:58:57 AM] Scott MacLeod: Post your puppets’ pix to Twitter, Soul … I’m posting much these days here https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch and here https://twitter.com/scottmacleod and here https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand
[2/19/16, 10:59:39 AM] soul: Ok Scott take ur time .. sorry i cant make video cuz i cant show my face ... if u thats what u mean.
[2/19/16, 10:59:52 AM] Scott MacLeod: Do you wear chador?
[2/19/16, 11:00:26 AM] Scott MacLeod: Thanks for letting me know … am learning :)
[2/19/16, 11:01:24 AM] soul: Whats chador?
[2/19/16, 11:01:36 AM] Scott MacLeod: If you became a student at Stanford in person, do you think you’d still not show your face?
[2/19/16, 11:02:42 AM] Scott MacLeod: Is it not the veil - http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/01/iran-chador-hijab-resistance-social-pressure-veiled-women.html# ? But his is probably not the Arabic word … which is?
[2/19/16, 11:03:02 AM] soul: I think so :|
[2/19/16, 11:03:27 AM] Scott MacLeod: Hijab?
[2/19/16, 11:03:52 AM] soul: Yup hijab is an Arbic word
[2/19/16, 11:04:28 AM] Scott MacLeod: :) … and if you became a student at Stanford?
[2/19/16, 11:04:40 AM] soul: But chador is Farasi
[2/19/16, 11:04:48 AM] Scott MacLeod: … do you think you’d still not show your face?
[2/19/16, 11:04:59 AM] Scott MacLeod: Yes, thanks …
[2/19/16, 11:05:55 AM] soul: It's my religion, Scott
[2/19/16, 11:06:26 AM] Scott MacLeod: I don’t think I’ve seen any one wear Hijab at Stanford. Yesterday I was at both Stanford and Berkeley … and I think I saw some women wearing headscarves at Berkeley …
[2/19/16, 11:06:45 AM] Scott MacLeod: Yes, Soul, I understand I think …
[2/19/16, 11:08:06 AM] soul: Isnt it allowed at Standford ?
[2/19/16, 11:08:13 AM] Scott MacLeod: But I’m a cultural anthropologist too who sees place as significantly informing cultural practices which I think religions are … and modernity changes so much in these regards …
[2/19/16, 11:10:28 AM] Scott MacLeod: Stanford and Berkeley after the 60s with free speech and being in California and with highest achieving students have defined permissiveness … or the students did so themselves … more hijab and chador aren’t worn much because they aren’t not the norm or part of the social milieu so much
[2/19/16, 11:11:21 AM] Scott MacLeod: (As I just wrote I think I saw a very few women wearing headscarves at UC Berkeley yesterday … )
[2/19/16, 11:12:08 AM] Scott MacLeod: Do your puppets wear hijab? :)
[2/19/16, 11:13:44 AM] Scott MacLeod: (Women who are students at these universities seem much to be into almost knee high leather boots this past decade or so:) … from the Middle East too I think :)) … hard to explain this
[2/19/16, 11:39:19 AM] soul: So it's nt popular there but its allowed since there is permissiveness .. am i right?
[2/19/16, 11:41:27 AM] soul: Cuz i know some women who traveled abroad ,for studying, they wear hijab as they do here.
[2/19/16, 11:43:40 AM] soul: U must be kidding me :D i ll send it again to see
[2/19/16, 11:45:16 AM] Scott MacLeod: Definitely allowed … but I bet it’s not necessarily easy because not many other women students from the ME wear it that I’ve seen … but one would probably places where Stanford and Berkeley ME women students hung out and all wear hijab for example ...
[2/19/16, 11:47:10 AM] Scott MacLeod: Since in some ways tie die clothes, bell bottom jeans, sandals and flowers in the hair preceded wearing almost knee high boots at Berkeley and Stanford in many ways probably, I’m curious to find photos of hippie ME women students wearing tie die and hijab at Stanford and Berkeley … :)
[2/19/16, 11:49:40 AM] Scott MacLeod: Sometime I’ll ask my friend Shahrzad from Tehran who is a graduate student at UC Berkeley in architecture, and who now lives with her mother in Oakland, CA, next to Berkeley, about her experiences in moving to the SF Bay Area, and showing her face, wearing chador and or head scarves and how she navigated this. Iran however is differently linguistically and culturally from Saudi of course …
[2/19/16, 11:53:35 AM] Scott MacLeod: In a way, hijab can already be tie die - https://40.media.tumblr.com/dfaff3d3f05e38eeea3d5fdf6f86f3df/tumblr_o2220sujQG1te0okio1_500.jpg :) (Your photo of puppets didn’t come through).
[2/19/16, 11:54:39 AM] Scott MacLeod: But the women in both Stanford Online High School videos are somewhat typical of Stanford women these days, actually … I liked the high school student saying she was sailing around the world while studying … very Stanford and very hippy and in the 2010s :)
[2/19/16, 11:54:53 AM] soul: Yup sometimes its difficult to change ones culture
[2/19/16, 11:57:29 AM] Scott MacLeod: And yet culture is always changing … and Stanford and Berkeley were both hotbeds for free speech student youth movement counterculture too, which has moved on/changed but is still in the air too at creative excellent Stanford especially :)
[2/19/16, 11:58:16 AM] Scott MacLeod: (My actual virtual Harbin Hot Springs ethnographic book is about counterculture in some ways re modernity too :)
[2/19/16, 11:59:56 AM] Scott MacLeod: And that first Stanford online high school vision kind of expresses an ongoing excellent vision of what came out of the 1960s such as the internet and with education … now excellent high school from anywhere in the world :)
[2/19/16, 12:01:58 PM] Scott MacLeod: Hope you can get to bed and get a good night’s sleep Soul ! :)
[2/19/16, 12:02:54 PM] Scott MacLeod: OOOOooo the puppets came through and they are beautiful … you are a seamstress and a creator, Soul!
[2/19/16, 12:03:57 PM] Scott MacLeod: Thank you for sharing them … and they don’t appear to be wearing hijab from what I can tell … perhaps because they are boys … but I’m not sure :)
Scott's an anthropologist of physical-digital Harbin Hot Springs, as ethnographic field site - https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 - who also finds fascinating the internet, ideas, poetry, sociology, art, science, genetics of aging reversal and extreme longevity, philosophy, history, music, love and life ~ as well as the anthropology of information technology & counterculture :) -
scottmacleod.com ... Am also the president or head of, and professor at, MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch (& Academic @WUaSPress, planned in 7,164 living languages with machine translation, aka the WUaS Corp) planning free online degrees in ~200 countries & in their main languages, where you can wiki-teach, or wiki-learn, or wiki-create - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (see too: http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html in exploring questions of Yoga & wisdom). Identity-wise, a Nontheist Friendly Quaker - a NtF or NtQ - with Unitarian Universalist sympathies as well, and an academic
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