Edward Mokurai Cherlin

Columbus, IN

Generalist
Serial NGO Founder

http://www.earthtreasury.org/

Edward Mokurai commented on the petition | 2 months ago

Prosecute the killer of our son, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin

My son, my brother, and yours, too.
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Pay Effective Teachers What They Deserve
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1 Million Strong Standing Up for Medicare
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Prosecute the killer of our son, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin
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Save Girls from Female Genital Cutting
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Demand Resignation of Anti-Gay Arkansas School Board Member
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Petition for transparency in the vote counting process
Edward Mokurai commented on the article | about 3 years ago

A Better Class of Learning: The Sudbury Model

Mokurai: I am suggesting that you teach them the essential software freedoms of the Free Software and Open Source movements, and the media freedoms of Creative Commons. How much of this are you doing?

Bruce Smith: The teaching that goes on at a Sudbury school is more spontaneous than this comment seems to suggest. That is, I could see it coming up in conversation if one of us knows about the movements you describe and finds them relevant; or a student might find out about them and ask someone to tell them more.

:So to answer your question, I don't know how often and in what depth these things come up in various Sudbury schools. We trust in freedom, responsibility, and the random way in which people encounter and explore what's important.

I'm offering to facilitate that discussion. I will of course ask around to find out more about Free Software and Creative Commons use in Sudbury schools, but everybody should know that I am available to explain what the movement for Software and Copyright Freedoms is about, and to put you into contact with those who can help you get started or help your students from novice to guru level.

See, for example,

o http://www.flossmanuals.net/
o http://earthtreasury.org/worknet/
o http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/
Edward Mokurai commented on the article | about 3 years ago

A Better Class of Learning: The Sudbury Model

Bruce Smith: Have you considered contacting individual schools and asking?

Certainly. I'm getting ready to contact many schools, now that I have something to show them on teaching concepts and skills of math and Computer Science.
Edward Mokurai commented on the article | about 3 years ago

When Aid Becomes Morally Indefensible

I don't believe in making moral decisions for other people. What do the Zimabweans say about food donations? What do they ask for?

How about letting them become legal refugees somewhere else, with proper financial support for feeding and housing them, and educating their children, and a usable communications system so that they can talk to the world about their plight? How about allowing them to immigrate to other countries legally? How about not stigmatizing them as the dirty, ugly, nasty and above all foreign poor who are trying to steal our jobs and destroy our culture if they do manage to get out? Would any of that go over well with them? Don't ask me. Ask them.

Or better still, what if they gave a dictatorship, and everybody left? What if there were nobody left to oppress?