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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Exi friends, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have been invited to give Ted talk, and I might take them up on it. I have hung with you for well over 20 years and always read the chatter even if I don’t participate as much as I once did. My ideas and attitudes have been greatly influenced by ExI. Naturally my Ted would be greatly influenced by that association.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I will not speak on my real area of expertise (satellite controls) because that wouldn’t be of general interest to the people who invited me. They want to hear about a more recent interest of mine: education.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So… I might give a talk on the future of education.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please, your perspectives, ideas, suggestions for focus, anything you want to offer. I have time: the outline wouldn’t need to be ready for several weeks and the pitch itself would happen in May. I am thinking of a techno-optimist view of the near term easily-foreseeable future. My notion is to talk about our local public school’s embracing highly diversified curriculum: what if we do and what if we do not?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Help me Exi-wan Kenobi!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>