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Clarence Fisher alerted me to this:
A version of David Weinberger’s Small Pieces Loosely Joined for children. What a wonderful idea. [Don’t worry, David, I won’t shanghai you into signing this one as well!]
And it got me thinking.
I will know that something significant has happened when the reverse takes place. When I see books published on blogs and wikis and chat and social networks, explicitly targeting the over 65s or something like that.
Or should I make that the over 25s? :-)
Take a look at this video on YouTube, of a four-year-old playing drums. [Thanks to David Peskowitz at Boing Boing for the heads-up].
If you feel like it, search for four-year-old+drumming on YouTube, and see how many different hits you get.
Many people may use things like this to propagate a “nature wins” argument. I’m doing the opposite.
Everyone needs role models. Even four-year-olds. Especially four-year-olds. They need to see the Art of the Possible.
Until things like YouTube came along, the search and transmission costs for these disaggregated role models was too high. But now we have liftoff.
Just a thought.