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Good luck, and have fun. ----Sj talk 10:08, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello Sj, thank you for your introduction and welcome to the Online Schoolbook “GOLD DUST. Papillon 17:16, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Hello,

I’m the author of the “Papillon” educational concept and creator of the online schoolbook "GOLD DUST". Based on the idea of writing a childrens book a study project developed. Thirst for knowledge and interest in topics taken from literature, history, philosophy, art and religion as well as openness for science, environmental topics and new media have influenced the development of the Online Schoolbook GOLD DUST.

This project is my passion since many years. It includes:

Fantasy Story „GOLD DUST” [1]

Online Schoolbook „GOLD DUST” [2]

"Papillon" [“Butterfly”] educational concept - Project study [3]

Testing the model project successfull in practice [4] at the Ellen-Key Grammar School in Berlin [5]

Survey from the Berlin Technical University with regard [6]

Online Platform – Learning in the 21st century [7]

Since 2007 Papillon participates in the educational project “One Laptop per Child". --Papillon 22:03, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

My native language is German. Please feel free to correct my English and give me your feedback and comments. I’m happy to answer your questions.

Now I want to introduce "Papillon" and present what is possible with this emotional and simply concept. On this level the potential of "Papillon" is not yet exhausted, only a first description.

Here are some hints and thoughts, to explore the Online Schoolbook GOLD DUST - a new system of education on the basis of ancient wisdom and modern research. Try it out and invite curiosity and hunger for knowledge in the classroom.

By using the Papillon concept learners get a mix from structur (text of the virtual world) and freedom (Internet).

Why imparting knowledge through narration?

The answer lies in the way the brain works: we remember things better when more than one sense is involved. That is particularly true when it comes to stories rather than simple informational documents. What has no emotional coloring is easily forgotten. --Papillon 16:06, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Why very distantly related links?

Analog view of a topic does not encourage thinking in contexts. A wide, cross-subject education and cross-border thinking challenges children to ask questions, show curiosity and to change their perspectives.

If someone is not interested in a topic, he will find it difficult to learn. Papillon therefore arouses curiosity in interesting cross-curricular themes and opens the door to the internet. Behind every door students can find a surprise, against one's expectations. Surprise is a positive emotion.

Neuroscientists are of the opinion that positive emotions support the learning process. An information may be better absorbed, noticed and be reproduced. --Papillon 20:55, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

The learning clicks represent a unique and innovative form of conveying knowledge. They are the result of an intensive combined achievement. Text and learning clicks are so tightly interwoven so that both elements can develop their effect as just one unit. However, the goal is not to link the text in general but rather how the text is linked. That is what is special about it. Links without the text don't work in such great manner we have learned in our praxis tests. --Papillon 16:06, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

We must ask ourselves: what should our children learn and what values we want to give them. Topics close to society's heart. Therfore all keywords and educational links are variable and suggestions and are subject to constant change. --Papillon 19:46, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

General

Education Level: K-12

• Learning with imagination [8] and time to deepen a topic in a digital self-learnig method. Getting into Einstein's brain [9] --Papillon 19:26, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

• The preoccupation with the key words (the penetration at the depth central themes) pays for itself in an acceleration of apprehension, and not only during school but for the entire life.--Papillon 17:19, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

• Particularly suitable for team- and project work. The role of the teacher is being transformed. He is providing the direction and ensures the point of reference while the Internet becomes the learning space and the student can work independently. --Papillon 20:06, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

• Due to the switch between digital and traditional work methods, the productive capacity to reflect and the joy the students experience from experimentation as well as the ability to critically assess the media are stimulated and promoted. Unique learning success becomes possible in this sense by combining technical affinity and the desire to read.

Concepts which combine what is information with creative methods of thinking and working boost the attention and motivation of the students and open up new ways from the to express themselves and create. The fairytale establishes the self-imposed delay between the onset of desire and its eventual fulfilment which can be increased through interaction. The desire for learning is awakened.

Chapter 1: Phantasos

Keyword: listlessly like a wilting leaf

Introduce new interdisciplinary areas and forster dialogue with science: Chronobiology [10] "Chrono" pertains to time and "biology" pertains to the study, or science, of life.

Chapter 2: The Gold Hat Officials

Keyword Nubia

Nubia was always important for Egypt, because from Nubia came the gold.

There is more behind the links than people expect, meaning that the effect of the Internet to amaze and astound can be used for learning success. The learner is surprised that even the most comical ideas in real life can find an equivalent in reality.

For example: Nubia is not only a fantastic name, Nubia was an ancient high culture

Keyword: the official for good thoughts

Theme: how one comes to good thoughts... ...when you emulate successful people, if you take part, when you are interested in science, if you ask why, when you play, when you help, if you are curious in new media, when you hear music, when you leran languages and so on...

Keyword: time

Theme: The Theory of Relativity

The student can view the content and continue to access it until he has completely understood the topic. This method of conveying knowledge is not feasible in regular instruction and has a decisive advantage: Gifted students no longer have to be bored because they understood the material long ago and those who are less gifted no longer have a reason to interrupt the class because they are not following the material. Everyone can process the instructional materials according to his or her own aptitude. Strong and weak students will be promoted together.

Keyword: towers

Dynamic Architecture: Rotating Tower

The boundries of architecture are new defined: Buildings are now able to change their shape and be part of environment.

Chapter 3: The Twinkling Lantern

Keyword: place in life

You've got to find what you love, that's the question of your life.--Papillon 19:28, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Examples: Links from the fairytale refer to the selection of a career, on how to get good ideas. Those in later semesters can be guided from fairytale to the theory of relativity, evolution, nanotechnology and ethics. Complex content on web pages is shown in a simple and easy-to-follow manner in a film or in an interaction.--Papillon 18:14, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Chapter 4: A fateful Birthday

Keyword: baroque

Baroque is also known as the era of stage and finds his glorious climax at the court of Louis XIV. Elements of staging we find in the Media-Society of the 21st Century, for example election campaign, product advertising, fashion,Harry Potter as a brand, etc. Why not education to stage? --Papillon 19:06, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

World history videos make history alive. Bring history to life with fascinating videos and interactive content. Examples: History Channel[11] Discovery Channel[12] you tube [13] BBC [14] National Geographic [15] --Papillon 07:59, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Chapter 8: Lilies or Airhead

Lilies - a symbol for stability (roots), wind - a symbol for independence --Papillon 12:22, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Chapter 9: In the Valley of Tears

Keyword: four virtues

Virtues [16] are more basic than values. All cultures honour virtues. [17] [18] The strategies of The Virtues Project help us all to remember who we really are. You can find out what the virtues are here and discover the strategies for applying them in your daily life here[19] The Virtues Project/Education Character education: [20][21]

Keyword: Justitia

What does it mean to teach for social justice? [22]

Keyword: Fortitudo

Teaching courage to kids [23]

"It may surprise you to know that children's books often raise deep philosophical issues and that children love to think about them. This website contains all the materials that you need to lead philosophy discussions with your students.” [24]

Top Sites in Philosophy for Children [25]

--Papillon 21:45, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Fairytales convey a simple basic thought: A good character makes you beautiful. It is exactly the right format to spin a yarn about the great questions of life. Let you inspire by the magical world of the GOLD DUST story. --Papillon 10:40, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Chapter 10: Energy Spheres

Topic: Time which we spend together

Majority of parents say children want more family time with more play time high on the wish list [26]

The Importance of Family Time [27] --Papillon 15:09, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Keyword: Gold Dust

GOLD Dust reflects our dreams, desires and hopes, our yearning and virtues, our good side. Gold Dust is irreplaceable, because it is the gold in us.

What are the children's wishes for themselves, their families and friends, for their country, the world and the future? (no wars, feed the hungry, save the animals, protect the environment... be kind to each other)

What is really important for each of us and as valuable as gold? For example: every child needs a family and wants to be loved, live without fear, to be happy, in life find what everyone is looking... --Papillon 21:29, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

In general I give you suggestions of educational links for beginner and advanced learner (younger and older students).--Papillon 22:49, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Chapter 14: The Three Days of Miracles

Keyword: enchanting melody

Music provides children with a means of self-expression and gives them a glimpse of other cultures. [28]

Keyword: angels

Religion is one of the most emotional and powerful topics. We gave students the suggestion to present each other their religion. We also encouraged them, together to celebrate religious events [29]and visit religious monuments: synagogue, church, mosque or temple. So students learn more about their neighbours religions, their similarities and to accept differences. They also have a better overview of the religions. With the understanding of other religions they are able to communicate better. Children must be given the opportunity to view a certain aspect from different perspectives. So they can see one aspect with different eyes and improve respect and tolerance.--Papillon 13:36, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Chapter 16: Terror Birds

Keyword:Terror Birds

Terror Bird is not only imagination, he really lived 62million years ago.[30]

Keyword: True greatness

Gandhi and other fascinating personalities whose work was characterized by humanity.

Karlheinz Böhm devotes his life to aid Äthopien - an example for Citizens' Initiative.

The Golden Rule as the core of true human greatness.

Educating for Human Greatness deserves to become a strong voice at the table of our current debate on the future of education [31]

Keyword: The terror birds are even eating the sea empty

Theme: Overfishing

Plundering of the oceans as a consequence of poverty and greed, the demand is insatiable

Overfishing is an example of Gandhi's seven deadly sins : Pleasure without conscience.

Chapter 18: The Beginning of All Evil

Keyword: Lying, Cheating, Stealing

Theme: Moral and ethical standards

Teachers told me that children can no longer distinguish between good and evil. Thus arose the idea to set a focus on this issue and to bring it into the public perception.

At my search for interactive content on this topic, I found many scientific but no exciting websites for children with whom they can easily learn why we don't should lie, cheat and steal. Maybe I do not have the right key words entered? Please help the project and donate sophisticated websites for students in several age groups:

Sensational I find in this context the scientific evidence from Dan Ariely[32] Professor, Duke/MIT that the mere thought of a moral authority promotes honesty[33].

Some ideas to deepen the topic:

Lie, cheat and steal: high school ethics surveyed [34]

When nobody is looking [35]

Teens: Sometimes You Just Have to Lie, Cheat and Steal. Teens say lying doesn't make you unethical [36]

Encouraing kids to do right thing: Use books 'Read stories, particularly fairy tales, which tend to have moral messages,' says Dark, who works for Lyn Fry Associates, a consultancy that runs positive parenting courses.[37]

Therefore the GOLD DUST story is an important and valuable part of the project. Fairytales convey to us a magical world through which the children can easily distinguish between the rules and rituals of reality, good and evil. They are an appropriate means of evoking fantasy and creativity and thereby promote the moral and social competence to make judgments.

How to Teach Your Child Right from Wrong [38]

Social and Moral Education [39]

Encouraging your child's moral development [40] [41]--Papillon 19:30, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Chapter 19 : The Heads of the Evil Seven

Theme: Timeless truth - Don’t be evil

Do you believe in an objective, universal truth? Is morality innate and universal?

Harvard psychologist Marc Hauser's argues that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct, unconsciously propelling us to deliver judgments of right and wrong independent of gender, education, and religion. Experience tunes up our moral actions, guiding what we do as opposed to how we deliver our moral verdicts.[42]

How to introduce values?

Catching sight of goodness, opening up oneself more to goodness, who does not want that? If only we did not have our daily existence with all of its dangers. Everyone can freely decide whether he helps someone with a problem or takes somebody for a ride, whether he will share or rather be greedy, whether he will hold the door for someone or let the door slam in his face. But when people cultivate goodness, they can also pass this on. That is why special care should be used in determining the difference between good and evil as clearly as possible. In order to do justice to our task, I first had to make a basic decision – either to give priority to the values or to follow the route of virtues. Virtues are not values. Values are geared toward societal change.

Because the topic is to be incorporated in a large context, only rules of conduct which universally apply were possible. They should not be specified for sociological implications nor for a specialised area but rather symbolise constancy.

Once the decision had been made in favour of the virtues, the seven mortal sins [43] were a possibility in contrast. One might ask oneself instinctively whether the does not sound old-fashioned and fuddy-duddy. In other words: An antiquated custom. On the contrary. These terms are provocative because what sounds like a term from moral relics, from another age, is in actuality timeless and up-to-date: Mortal sins are the gateways to torture, crimes and despair.

Headlines from The New York Times illustrating how the seven deadly sins are still alive and well. However, to focus one’s own actions on goodness, the virtues and the mortals sins must first be named and then precisely examined in order to make a conscious and voluntary decision to act virtually.

The exact designation of the mortal sins inspires an awareness on what the cause of all evil is, then he who enters through the door of the seven mortal sins encounters his dark, frightening side. The conflicts of this world provide copious examples. This means abuse, torture and murder, bribery scandals, assassinations, child molestation. The list is long. Children should be able to exactly distinguish what is bad for them and what is good for them. A strong character can more easily say no to drugs and violence and offers a shield against the temptations which are so strong that people believe things that they should not believe.

Following the tradition of personifying passions, I wanted to highlight the portraits of sin. The characters brings people closer to the concept of sin. I tried to express the nature of lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride and creating a more immediate experience with each sin in opposite to the seven virtues.

Personification offers an impressive portrayal of events through which sins, unlike the rather boring and seemingly compliant virtues, have tricky and fascinating possibilities and shows how their alternating interplay has an effect on cultural information. The mortal sins are not out-dated moral terms but rather have a timely quality because they are frighteningly current. It is particularly for this reason that people have forgotten their danger because pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony and lust are declared harmless as completely forgivable and human forms of conduct. "It is therefore extremely important that it be made clear to children and adolescents what is right and wrong. The school and the parents must act in a manner that is oriented to the children and adolescents so that they can learn as early as possible what is good and bad. The adherence to clear rules should be consistently required", notes the psychologist Bettina Schubert, consultant for violence prevention for the Berlin school administration. (quoted from: Die Welt, November 10, 2004)

The capital vices of pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony and lust are not outdated and have not been made irrelevant. Some examples:

The current global financial crisis is a crisis of virtues. Virtue is vital to the wellbeing of society. [44] Greed has brought the worst downturn since the Great Depression.

Debating the Vices and Virtues: prominent current example[45]

Art was inspired often by the 7 deadly sins: Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill [46]

New York Public Library and Oxford University Press: For 2002 and 2003, seven noted writers, scholars, and critics were invited to offer a "meditation on temptation" on one of the seven deadly sins[47]

7 Deadly Sins of Living Linked To Illness as Well as Mortality: [48] --Papillon 13:22, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

overeating, drinking, smoking and drugs [49]

At the Heart of What We Do, Values Education at the Centre of Schooling [50] --Papillon 15:55, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Chapter 20: The Dragon Throne

Keyword: Superbia

Superbia - Pride

begins harmless with know-all manner and conceit. Who only believes his own truth rises to the Lord people, see Nazi Germany, torture and crimes are the result.

Holocaust is the worst example of pride/superbia. Who feels like Lord people is not afraid to humiliate others. Pride ranging from bullying, exclusion of other people about abuse of power, to murder.

Lesson Plan: The Holocaust's Legacy [51]

Chapter 21: The Logic of Evil

You may think that the concept of deadly sins is a religious one and do not apply to you, but you may call them negative tendencies if you want. The fact is that you can find them in more or less intensity within most people.

Keyword: IRA - Anger

Anger is a burning sensation, who is guided by anger, easily exceed a dangerous threshold. Raw violence and cold-blooded murder are the rusult.

In the violent temper friendships are broken, people killed,[52] attacks perpetrated.

Keyword: laws

Ten Commandments: a tool for moral instruction for students. Analog codes are also found in other religions.

Keyword: INVIDIA - Envy

Envy who make careers, possessions accumulate, beauty, family or friends owns, threatens the envious gaze of neighbors. From envy will intrigue spun, fates sealed and marriages destroyed because one is bursting with envy and jealousy [53]

Envy—The Forgotten Narcissistic Issue [54]

Keyword: GULA - Gluttony

Why are we so fat? Americans enjoy one of the most luxurious lifestyles on Earth. Our food is plentiful. Our work is automated. Our leisure is effortless. There's just one catch: It's killing us. [55]

Gluttony is not just pure lust eating but is aimed at a general immoderation

Gandhi: Pleasure Without Conscience [56]

Envy, anger, greed and Co., how see and evaluate students these traits today. Search for examples from politics, show business, environment and in your personal life. --Papillon 13:07, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Keyword: Avaritia - Greed

“American Gangster” [57]: The film is a very good example of how greed and the excesses own personality and the family destroyed. Film Analysis and background [58]

You can have or be anything you want, but . . . [59]--Papillon 09:40, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Chapter 22: The Masks of the Seven Gates

decision

“The evil seven determine your decision long before you meet them.”

When we make decisions we think we're in control, making rational choices. But are we? Entertaining and surprising, Ariely, Professor, Duke / MIT unmasks the subtle but powerful tricks that our minds play on us. [60]

Keyword: look like harmless vices

Sins are masters of deception. Putting on their it’s-not-all-that-bad mask of naiveté to make them look like harmless vices. They appear as pure beauty, the true character hide. Nobody realize their dangerousness. Monster morph to beauties. [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] --Papillon 16:41, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Keyword: Flying Spider

When imagination meets reality: Flying spider, [68] Science of Spider-Man: Chemistry Spins an Amazing Web [69] Terror Birds, [70] spitting cobra,[71] Ozelot... [[72] Interlinking fairytales and the Internet constitutes a mixed world made of reality and imagination. Fictional characters and personalities from fables come into contact with actual figures and historically established facts. --Papillon 20:40, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

These examples stand also for brand-new scientific results: Flying Spider Model [73] Africa's Naja ashei snake is not only the world's newest snake species it's also the largest spitting cobra [74] Terror Bird Skull [75]

Textbooks can form the basis. But because the development in the 21st century is progressing at an extremely rapid pace, knowledge has a shorter and shorter shelf-life. Learning content researched on the Internet is very up-to-date (in real time). --Papillon 19:26, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

kids web instead spider web: learning [76] entertainment [77]

Chapter 23: The Green Elixir

Keyword: fan image

A picture of the Mona Lisa, that free floats in the air and through which one can go...

A new screen technology produces a thin fog. In this fog the projector throws an image. Is the projector connected to a PC, you can words and pictures write and paint in the air. What a surprise. I never thought that the idea (from the tale) with the fan image exist in reality.

The more unusual the context (between tale and reality) the merrier. No idea is too small, or too big. --Papillon 13:31, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Capitel 25: Goldfish

Keyword: one world

“No matter what the culture, birthdays are still birthdays, breakfast is breakfast, marriage is marriage, babies are babies. We all love something. We all have something that makes us sad. As I gazed up at those rock walls, the Time Capsule seemed to underscore the great promise of the Internet — that there can exist a single space where we all come together and share our stories, where we start to see common ground instead of distance and difference, and we start to think as one world.” Jonathan Harris, Creator of Yahoo! Time Capsule, Jonathan Harris [78] wants to make sense of the emotional world of the Web. With deep compassion for the human condition, his projects troll the Internet to find out what we're all feeling and looking for.--Papillon 13:06, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Capitel 27: Flammula-The Fire Fairy

Keyword: Ballerina

English choreographer Maldoom has been initiating 'Educational Dance Projects' worldwide for more than twenty years with priority given to underprivileged teenagers.[79]

Chapter 31: El Dorado

Keyword: El Dorado

Pizarro’s greed for gold and glory and ended with the demise of a great civilization [80]

Chapter 32: The Light-Thaler Thanksgiving Feast

Keyword: Saffron

What an unusual profession. I have never heard from foodhunter. Mark Brownstein foodhunter [81]

Keyword: moderate person

Be moderate when touching on sensitive issues

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