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Cynthia Lucas
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We are going to do a travelogue today using quotes from a UNESCO institute in India with a vision written by American education profs, hen a May conference at the Vatican we were not invited to, on to Washington, DC and a think tank tied to Betsy DeVos, and an upcoming August 8 conference at UN HQ right there along the East River. Then we get to visit the Silicon Valley to finish up. All of these initiatives are pushing the exact same visions and many are tied to the same institutions and people who worked so hard to misportray the Common Core and competency-based education in the US. None of these conferences though are mentioning each other unless you recognize common attendees and funding.
I don't think the ties to the False Narrative are an accident and if I, and my book Credentialed to Destroy, are going to be an irritant to that vision, I might as well be highly effective and revelatory in precisely what we are really jousting against here at ISC. In fact, it was following up on things that were put into print that were provably untrue that led me to the Humanity 2.0 conference so let's start there.
The full name of the Vatican's new initiative, now with co-sponsorship from Google, is "Humanity 2.0: A Shared Horizon for Humanity" that quotes its CEO, a Canadian tech entrepreneur, as stating that:
All that is required to change our destiny is prudence and the will to act. If history has taught us anything, it's that humans rarely rise to the occasion unless they're inspired by what 'should be', and this is why Humanity 2.0 is committed to articulating a common vision.
And then using education and the news media and social media platforms to impose that 'common vision' and create a "shared horizon to unite humankind." Humanity 2.0 also intends to facilitate "collaborative ventures between the public, private, and faith-based sectors." That convergence of every institution with the ability to forge policy probably explains why the website headlines with a quote from Thomas Aquinas that sounded eerily reminiscent of the Mihaly Csiksentmihalyi definition of Excellence in education we tracked to the General Evolution Research Group from the 1980s--education should tie together in the student what is wanted, known, and felt. These ties make sense since both GERG and Humanity 2.0 see education as the primary tool to create "the kind of human civilization we should be striving to build" in the internalized attitudes, values, and beliefs of the students. [continued here...]
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