 Welcome to Think Tech on Spectromosi 16, Hawaii's weekly newscast on things that matter to tech and to Hawaii. I'm Lisa Anderson. And I'm Cynthia Sinclair. In our show this time, we'll review the most recent top five Think Tech talk shows and staff pick. We'll check out the elements of the best of the best and get a handle on the public issues and the guests involved. Think Tech produces more than 35 talk shows every week in our downtown, high-tech green screen studio. Our Think Tech talk show offerings are very diverse and their coverage is also very diverse, covering things you might never have otherwise known. Every week, Think Tech chooses its top five Think Tech talk shows from the week before based on the number of views each of them has had on the internet. For this past week, the winning shows were as follows. Number one from the series Beyond the Line, hosted by Rusty Kamori, it's called Peace and Education with Dr. Maya Satoro-Yng, Beyond the First Family, with guest Maya Satoro-Yng. Maya discussed her experiences as the famous sister of President Barack Obama and how she is helping to advance the objectives of the Obama Foundation. Maya shared valuable insights about her success as an educator, author, and co-founder of Seeds of Peace. Well, it's good because he's such a good man. I really think about leadership, you know, with him as an example, being about remaining grounded in your story, in your roots, but also connecting to so many people far and wide. So, I think he's a wonderful international leader. For instance, I think that he is really focused now, even post-presidency, on building out civic engagement and identifying other leaders. So I'm grateful now to be able to work with the Obama Foundation as a consultant to help to build the Asia-Pacific Leadership Program, which is about identifying leaders in the Asia-Pacific who have done a lot, but need perhaps support through wraparound mentorship and innovation and also philanthropy to take their projects to the next level. So these are leaders who are committed to the region, who are embedded, they are people who have boots on the ground. Maya, you're a co-founder of that incredible organization called Seeds of Peace. Can you tell me about that? Yeah, Kerry Yerosevich, who's an early childhood and family expert, she and I co-founded Seeds of Peace a few years ago to help rebrand peace and to expand to schools and to the community. The idea is to bring together educators, family and community leaders in a 360 approach and to work on the algorithm of developing peace within, peace between, and peace and service to the community. And so our hope is that by doing these workshops that involve a three-part series where not only do participants hear from extraordinary organizations, initiatives, nonprofits, educators and youth in the community, but also develop action plans. Our action plans may involve mural building for an artist that creates a community space. Number two, from the series Hawaii Together, hosted by Kelly Iaquina, it's called Population Growth Equals Greater Resources, the Simon Abundance Index with guest Gail Pooley. Professor Pooley discussed his recent publication called the Simon Abundance Index, a new way to measure availability of resources, where he found that instead of making resources scarcer, population growth has gone hand in hand with greater resource abundance. He showed how data supports the finding that greater population growth results in greater resources and prosperity on the planet. We've always lived in a world of scarcity. I mean, we never have enough time, we never have enough. The question is, how do we measure that? And the opposite of scarcity is really abundance, and what is abundance? And so our thinking currently is, is there a definition of abundance that we can use to begin to measure changes in this relative scarcity? Now before you give me that definition, let me just point out the shift I'm hearing you talk about, shifting from thinking of competing for scarce resources to the mode of creating abundance. Absolutely. So what is abundance? You know, abundance is really this, the definition that we use is the measurement of prices relative to population. In the day when only the very wealthy could afford an iPad, today virtually anyone can afford a small little device that replicates what an iPad does. Is that what you're talking about? Yeah, absolutely. So when we think about this, it's, are we being able to create things for one another that allow us to escape poverty? Are we lifting ourselves out of poverty? And this process of creating new things, innovation is really what we think about today. For example, when you think about a physical resource, think about a piano. A piano has 88 keys, but how many songs can you create with those 88 keys? I would imagine an infinite number. It's an infinite number. So we live in this world where we have a physical limitation on the number of atoms that are on the planet, but we really have infinite ways that we can rearrange those atoms. Now that's very encouraging because you're moving economics away, as we said earlier, from looking at scarce resources, which pits us against each other to compete for those scarce resources, you're moving economics into a realm in which we cooperate to take resources and bring out an infinite amount of abundance. Exactly. My goodness. This is good stuff. Here's another thing. We look at an iPhone and we say, you know, it's about four or five ounces of atoms. You know, you've got four or five ounces of water. But these atoms have always been on the planet. We've just been able to come up with new ways to rearrange these atoms in ways that create value for one another. Number three from the series Screen Time Reset, hosted by Lauren Pair. It's called Why Tech Executives Send Their Children to Tech Light Waldorf, Cultivating the Whole Child and Honing Human Competitive Advantages, with guests Alicia Maley-Soddok and Yuka Otaka Brice. While researching Screen Time, Lauren kept reading articles mentioning that Tech Light Waldorf schools in Silicon Valley are filled with children of technology executives. In this episode, Lauren talked to two Honolulu Waldorf teachers, Yuka Otaka Brice and Alicia Maley, about Waldorf's stance on technology and why it is perfectly rational for tech-savvy parents to send their kids to Tech Light Waldorf, despite the apparent contradiction. Yuka and Alicia highlighted Waldorf's focus on developmentally appropriate tech. They shared how minimizing media and tech exposure when children are young strengthens their imagination skills, interpersonal skills, and engagement with life and learning. What I love about it is it sort of creates this merge of academics and arts, experiential hands-on learning, and kind of creates a very strong foundation for the children of building creativity, building critical thinking skills through this foundation of imagination, and creating lifelong learners. What's really exciting is with our education system, it's such an active educational process for the children are really deeply engaged with all of them themselves, and technology tends to be a passive experience where they're just sort of receiving information or receiving images, and so it contradicts what we're trying to do with the children. You know, one of the things that we're looking at when we talk about the appropriate time to bring something is, for instance, in second grade. When you look at a second grader's development, you're looking at somebody that's starting to toil with these ideas of morality. So Yuka's bringing fables, the silliness, these stories of the saints, you know, something that really grounds people and gives the kids something to enact with, something that really means something to them. Instead of, like you're referencing with technology, you know, you can put a child on an iPad and all of a sudden they're having information put on them. So no matter what the developmental age, what we're trying to work with is the actual life of the child. I feel like a lot of parents are tackling this issue alone, but it really is a community issue. And so even if there was a school that was a little more tech liberal, just the value of the fact that your class discusses what they think is appropriate, and that the parents in the school are kind of working together, I think there's so much value in that across the spectrum. Of, you know, tech light to more tech liberal. And to make a shared agreement, you know, it's really, it can be really iffy when we talk about technology because there's such a big split, right, in the way we raise children. And it's so easy to make somebody feel like they're a villain for, you know, texting somebody, or for letting their kids watch a movie, or for not having their kids on a screen, that they're behind, you know, there's so much of the back and forth. So I think no matter what realm you're coming from, the most important thing is that you do create a community agreement. Yeah, and conversation. Right, a shared value. Number four, from the series at the Crossroads, hosted by Keisha King, it's called Red Table Talk Community Presents, Relationships SOS, Love, Single, or Married, with guests Roderick Brassard and Rashawn Brassard. The show covered marriage and infidelity and discussed how to win at marriage in a world that promotes divorce. It was part one of a two-part discussion on love and relationships. They spoke about tips on how to overcome darkest marital challenges and master second chances, embracing singlehood and developing healthy self-love, learning the art of listening, communicating, and mutual respect. So I've introduced you all as people who've been married over 20 years. Exactly how long have you been married? 22 years, to be exact. 22 years. Yes. Wow, congratulations. That is worthy of applause. Give myself a hand. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Give me some dance with that one. Okay, I see you. I see you. Okay, that's good. 22 years. Yes. Give yourself a hand. Yes. I like that. You've talked a little bit about communication, about respect, about money, about control, and yet you survived all of those challenges. Did it get any worse? Did it go any deeper? Those are universal issues that we've all faced. Did you have anything else that gave you pause within your marriage? Oh, yes. Most definitely. Most definitely. I mean, there's a lot of things that brought a lot of pause. I mean, some serious, not even say pause, like a slam on the brakes, if you will. And there's been a fidelity. You know, that was a major blow, a major blow. Like I said earlier, with the transition of always coming and going back and forth, with not just with the job, but the physical movement, that takes a lot out of a family. It takes a lot, you know, when you have to up and plug and move your family to another place and relearn people, get to another ministry, if you're in church, you know. A lot of different things that you, you know, you take for granted when you're in one place for a set amount of years, that you don't have that when you're every three or four years moving. Healthy issues with families, you know, our parents, you know, that's been another major, you know, challenge as well. I mean, you want to share in there because I don't want to take up the whole spot. Well, as we were talking about our communication, communication was a big issue for us because we didn't know how to communicate with one another. That's what led to us learning how to later on, the art of listening. We didn't know how to listen to one another. We were hearing each other, but we weren't listening. And so in that process, it brought about, as we spoke, the infidelity on both of our parts. It wasn't just on one end. It was both of our parts to where infidelity had taken place. And when we learned how to communicate and when we learned how to listen, that first of all, we had to really bring God into our relationship because without God, we wouldn't have been able to function, be together, and stay together. Number five from the series Hispanic Hawaii hosted by Richard Concepcion. It's called Venezuela's Political, Social, and Economic Crisis with guest Teotiste Duran. On January 23rd, Juan Guaido, president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, was sworn in as the interim president of Venezuela during a demonstration in Caracas, thus ignoring the government of Nicolas Maduro. To understand Venezuela's political, social, and economic crisis, we need to examine different points of view, which together will help us have a realistic vision of what is happening there. Teotiste Duran spoke about the crisis and how it can create multinational conflict and affect global economic and political stability. He is the president of the National Assembly and according to the articles of the National Assembly, that is, of the Constitution, he is the one who took the presidential power. So let's bring that point when Maduro took power after Chávez died. Maduro became the president and the inflation during Maduro until now has risen from 1 million percent to 10 million and has had more than 466, 65 political prisoners and when they went to the elections there was no opposition group then the elections were observed internationally and it was legitimate and that's why Guaido says that he is not the legitimate president. That's why he is not the legitimate president. That's why he says that he is not the legitimate president. And that Maduro is not legitimate because his elections were not fraudulent? They were fraudulent. He was fraudulent. Moreover, he has not won any election because in 2000 when he was launched as president that Chávez supposedly said it in a national chain that when he went to Cuba he was going to operate. But if something happened to him that they voted for Maduro because that was his heir as if Venezuela had been a company of him to be the heir then there were many people there were many people that we didn't vote a lot of people didn't vote for that man and Peruel de todas formas took the elections that the elections were won by Capriles really it was won by Capriles I say it because I am already there and we were in the marches and all Capriles had too many people but unfortunately as the power the power has had them then they took away the elections that easily. We also have a staff pick from the series Code Green hosted by Howard Wigg it's called Making the Invisible Visible at Kamehameha Schools Fertive Learning with guest Dora Nakafuji the school innovation group at Kamehameha Schools is developing an entirely new way of learning where the students become involved in campus energy projects and learn STEM skills while doing things learning by accident educators are realizing that conventional classroom teaching is minimally effective the invisible visible method literally brings energy efficiency measures home every generation we have new technology that evolves and materials that come up and our current times we have some amazing technologies and even though in the past we've had great observations great lessons learned and ways of doing things the new technology and the new materials afford us some new efficiency and I think that's really the challenge is how do we bring these types of skill sets into our learning environment not only allow the kids to experience it but also operationally how do we gain efficiencies and how do we develop our next practices rather than just best practices it's really hands on right and if you put these tools into practice it becomes second nature it's that going to that old adage of flying by the seat of your pants which has a sense of adventure but it's also what kids gravitate to because there's a sense of exploration kids do not like to sit in classrooms since they're at a teacher who's talking they want a sense of adventure and if we can give them three dimensional stuff to play with I think that really enhances the learning experience when we talk about energy it's very hard to visualize electric use and other things but when you turn on the light you're actually using a lot of energy and many times we don't even really appreciate how much energy we use throughout the day and as we introduce renewables and other types of generation onto our islands as part of our 100% renewable goals we actually need to start asking that question of how are we using it and how are we more sustainably integrating that into our environments our project really is just the small sliver of the entire portfolio of all the things that are happening and this was really designed to address kind of our understanding of our various campuses and our places and how much energy we were using and how to more effectively manage the energy use because we want to be conscientious we also want to be good citizens and in doing that we need to actually understand some of these things that relate to energy whether it be water and other underlying infrastructure for operation but energy being a key component you can always find the links to these shows in our daily email advisories if you don't already get our daily email advisories you can sign up to get them on thinktecawaii.com these are only sampling from the top five and the staff pick from across our 35 weekly talk shows there are of course 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