I'll be going to Hong Kong later this month. I'll be speaking at TEDX Pearl River, one of the TEDX programs taking place throughout the world this year. TEDX programs are TED programs independently organized in venues from Nairobi to Nantucket (if you don't know about TED, you owe it to yourself to learn. Go to TED.com and check it out) in an effort to further spread the great ideas introduced at TED.
TEDX Pearl River is being organized by my friend and fellow TEDster, Jose Rueda. Jose is a remarkable entrepreneur, leader, and big thinker who is the Chief Executive Producer of PlayLab in Hong Kong. We first met at a TED program in California several years ago and I later invited Jose to an Inner Circle I was conducting in Los Angeles in 2008. He enjoyed it so much he requested that we conduct another Inner Circle in Hong Kong and so we did. And now we'll be doing both an Inner Circle and taking part in a TEDX all in the same week. Double whammy of the best kind.
Jose is the kind of thinker perfectly suited to convene a TEDX program. He follows the expected trajectory of a discussion topic, then throws in another aspect of the issue that illuminates things in a whole new way. He is a humanist first and foremost, deeply concerned about the impact of new technology on human beings and its potential for improving life as we know it. I've reported here before about PlayLab's focus on creating software that can train people in new and wonderful ways. For example, he demonstrated to me last year a video game designed to help kids with attention deficit disorder (ADD) learn to improve their powers of concentration and focus on whatever is the task at hand. It was impressive and, I'm told, kids with ADD live it because it rewards them for paying attention.
The coming Inner Circle in Hong Kong will include other TEDX Pearl River speakers as participants to discuss the topic of "Where is Innovation, Now That We Really Need It?" This is the same topic I've facilitated among senior executives in London and Hong Kong earlier this year and I know this one will be equally provocative. Our earlier scrutiny of this topic revealed deep concerns about--among other things--education of young people and the current failure to provide the kind of venues and teaching that appear to provoke innovation and creative thinking. Europeans and Americans have indicated in our Inner Circle conversations that they feel the Western world is stuck in outmoded systems of education that are hopelessly incapable of producing the kind of innovation necessary in order to remain competitive in a global economy.
In recent conversations preparing for the coming Inner Circle, Jose voiced the same concern, indicated that Hong Kongers are frustrated with the rote methods still used in Hong Kong schools to teach young children. He says educational practice there has simply not kept pace with our evolving technologically savvy global population. So we may find that East and West parts of the globe have the same educational concerns and share the same fear that "somewhere else" others are getting it right. I'm not sure where "somewhere else" is, since I've heard the same thing in Beijing and Tokyo, too.
Will report back. Meanwhile, you may want to think of the public school system of education in your own city, state and country. Up to par? Delivering what is needed for school children to compete globally? May be a conversation you want to initiate yourself, wherever you are.
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