Fear of the unknown keeps most people from exploring their comfort zone. Learning something new requires having somebody to bounce ideas off, to have a compatriot working with you that knows different things so that you partner into a relationship where the mental elder help guide the novice into the game of life.
In kulchas where grandparents watch the babies and were valued for their connections to heritage, the conduit function was very well-defined, though not elaborated. In our nukluar age, generational warfare is a highly developed game of letting people in on the secret before somebody hoses them down or takes them to the cleaners. Old folks voted back when it mattered and the seniors several generations back set up the ponzi scheme to eventually meet 2008 - the first wave of the bye-bye boomers who remember what great things the system did before their own eyes, without having the visual effect of the real horrors of WWII.
Intergenerational tug-of-war has to stop. There is no trust fund, no bank account and all the fiat cash in the world can not produce anything of real value, if people don't know the basics of how to. We're all in this together, so lets look at chemistry and see what we can learn about social structure.
Electrons mobility makes the world go round and electrons like to group in pairs. The larger the size of the element, the more electrons have to be accommodated in pairs. For most elements - not the very big or the very small - the magic number of electrons is eight, grouped in four pairs of two.
Thus, for each of four themed Envirothon interest areas, a senior conduit will be paired with a youthful coach to guide a team of students in forestry, aquatics, soils and wildlife. Each component will look at the energy dynamics of their area, both in terms of input/output and supply/demand. What serves as food, what is generated as waste and what types of values are involved in the ecology - habitat. Our framework will be in watersheds, our structure in conjunction with soil and water districts and our expertise areas pendant on our volunteer base.
The pilot this year will take place physically in Douglas County and by duplication through the net. This is a test of a learning system using natural resource science and a sports scoring system based on performance metrics. sorta like Rotisserie Baseball. As more people play the games and take part in events, the events will generate a score by a criteria that include both objective and subjective metrics. How it works in this go-round will be testing several hypothesis that i have on biochemphysetics - the integration of hard science with reality. Like sports, it will take practice, but we first need to generate a sustainable energy level and see which element it corresponds to. Different elements have different organizational structures and the proper electron pattern should fit both the mathematics and the group dynamics.
This year's Redile event theme will be to establish reference collections in the field of interest. For forestry and soils - these are self evident. For fish and wildlife, prints, pelts and keys, while in aquatics - chemistry equipment and macro-invertebrates. Redile has equipment available for physical measurment in forestry and water chemistry. Hands on use of the tools is necessary to understand the system - the monitoring should have little impact on the measured system.
Metrix - coaches and conduits will need to provide a checklist of information about each event that they attend - including number counts of people, with timeline, summary and photos of the event. The on-line time clock will be running for students this year, but eventually there will be no distinction between classifications - there will be much clearer definition of roles and criteria of order and chaos. So if you end up in Dr. Lenny's classroom at www.yourclassroom.com - leave a note on the chalkboard. Otherwise, i wouldn't know you were there.
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