Marco Polo goes Digital, The @Silkroad40 Project - Part 1

in #eductation6 years ago

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“Going digital” is not exactly a new thing and mostly understood as putting offline stuff online. Usually a boring thing. And here is were we want to tell you a different story.

Marco Polo - apparently a guy with routes from Croatia - most probably for most people stands for travel. What pceople usually do not know - we didn't know - is that he started traveling as a very young man, often with his brothers and father. Well, in fact we want to state, he was not traveling. He was discovering, he was exploring, he was trading. He was doing all this in for him absolutely unknown territories. As if one of us today would start traveling to the stars, trading with other civilizations, that we do not have any idea about. As if political realities did not exist.

A lot of things are remarkable about this: first: the role of his family, second the fact that traveling was the least thing he was actually doing, third globalization. For us today we would therefore like to call him one of the Global School Entrepreneurs. There are many like him who have before him and after him done the same on smaller skales. The @Silkroad40 Project is a reminder of this idea and at the same time an answer to Marco Polo.

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@Silkroad40 participating at the #TRA2018

Today - and this is where it gets digital - we have different technologies to explore, to learn and do business. Humans have found pretty efficient ways to do global business, but has learning, has exploration become a global activity? For some it has, but for most it is a dream. It is equally a dream to test and develop technology that not only makes travel a learning experience, but which makes it accessible for everybody. The @Silkroad40 project can serve as the attempt to globalize education, innovation and most of all exploration.

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Departure of @preinisch in the 6th district of #Vienna #austria towards the @silkroad40 adventures.

Philipe (@preinisch) on his motorbike on the traces of Marco Polo is also a @neomad or @GlobalSchool entrepreneur. He is exploring the idea of learning on a global platform because he is embedded in a technological framework that - because of today's advancements - allows us to not only participate in his exploration but offers us opportunity to interact and understand travel as a means to knowledge.


Marco Pollo image by wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo

Text by @wolfgangsieberth

with a lot of love,
Jean

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Nice article @wolfgangsieberth, I really like your writing style, it fit really well with the @globalschool and with the @silkroad40 experience. =)

Thank for writing this text @wolfgangsieberth! :)

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