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Conversation
Fumiko Green (Miko) , Qian Chen (Amy)
About youth, education and international cooperation (conversation from 2016)
Peter Burgess
Hello Mayor Okada and Mayor Toda san, I was able to attend this Education Commission Launch of Report on Financing Global Education which was presented to Secretary General Banki Moon.
Amy Chen, youth leader from China with whom I met through our friend Peter Burgess, are committed to develop experiential learning across national boundaries leveraging the power of social network as well as IN PERSON experience.
As I plan to move back to Japan, I would love to continue the cultural exchange targeting the rural community youth and young adults.
One of the most interesting areas for me .. is short tour of USA visiting entertainment related industry locations.. one of the effort in progress is tour of Sound Studio in NYC.. Mr. John Kiel the co founder of Sound Track Studio is MIT Alum and his studio does tremendous work in movie industry.. .. Incidentally, I had several opportunities to visit Kobe Electronic Specialty School lead by Mr. Fukuoka last several years.. The school has more than 100 chinese students studying Japanese as they prepare college educations in Japan.
I would love to see the youth tour organized with mix of Chinese, Japanese , and Korean .. to visit NYC and PA(Pennsylvania) visit the real sound studio.. etc.. and also plan a visit to Japan.. HYOGO and Tokyo..
I am copying Amy Boots executive director of Japan Society of PA with whom I had an opportunity to meet in person in JAPAN in July.. she is located in Pittsbugh.. and she was also JET teacher for a few years..
I think it will be awesome to start a pilot program with tours .. ( small group 10-20 at most with mix of 3 nationality .. with all with focus on ESL .. and also global citizen ship in mind..
With much tensions rising in territorial dispute and other tensions on economic front.. having a youth program started with communication and job skill developemt( in entertainment area ) will be a thing to do.. to divert the tension and allow the next generation to lead to form a new relationship based on common interest/love for creative process.
Amy.. please share your thought..
I would like to thank Chris Macrae the son of Norman Macrae to suggesting to attend the Education Commision report launch.. it was wonderful to be in the same room with Gordon Brown, and previous world leader and Jack Ma.. etc.
I believe grassroot pilot program is where everthing has to start to implement the big vision of the Education Commission..
the feedback is much appreciated.. .. I believe time is now to bring the sense of membership to bigger world beyond their national boundaries.. beyond different religions and political views.. inclusive program with commitment to humanities with focus on 1st person experience benefit today's millennium.. and also open the minds of rural seniors..
Thanks for your notes Miko and I wish all of you have a wonderful day! I am assigned to design a special trip among junior and senior high school students in Changsha to explore Washington DC, New York and Boston, mainly for discoveries of their future career, their dream and let them understand the gap between their dreams and their actual abilities. It would be a bonus to mix the group with different nationalities. China is the neighbor of South Korea and Japan. Regardless of politics, youth serves as a role to exchange values and get to know the culture of each other. I would love to know further about how we can put this idea together!
I could not agree more..
There are many places students should visit to really learn what it is like to work in respective fields..
be in industrial field or Entertainment field or Agriculture etc etc
and mixing the Chinese and Japanese in the mix
they must USE English
as a common language to communicate
rather than Japanese students sticking to each other to talk in Japanese while traveling
mixing them up .. so they can learn to TALK in English and also share the fields of work .. that may be their careers.. have them see in person A critical thing
most of the jobs exist today will not be around .. and other jobs.. will emerge. and all of them will require their communication skills to collaborate
Sound Track Studio will be awesome and I have another training facilities for Industrial technicians ie natural gas
John's sound track studio will be great.. he won academy award .. and work with great director like Martin S.
HUGO was the great one ..
Job training for visual art in movies and entertainment.. etc.. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.818697588188662.1073742046.232585593466534&type=1&l=4fc0a4a1db
9/21/16, 11:50 AM
Interesting idea. I agree that the youth are the key to creating more understanding in the future, and the divide between rural and urban youth is intensifying. The Japan-America Society of Pennsylvania is limited in the scope of things that we can do abroad, but could talk further about what might be possible in bringing kids to Western Pennsylvania.