Posts with keyword: culture

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Stowe Boyd: Social Cognition

Wed Nov 17 10:48:00 2010

Stowe Boyd is talking about social cognition. I always enjoy Stowe's take on things. Adding people with high IQ to a small group doesn't add to the groups effectiveness. What does make a small group more effecive is adding someone with good social sensibilities. Not correlated with IQ. Correlated with being a woman. Groups with good social interaction have less monologues and more interaction. Twittering led to students learning more--not just in one class, but across the board. Having friendly, personal conversations within a group leads to better performance. Feeling good about the context people are working with is
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Alan Kay: The 100 Dollar Laptop and Powerful Ideas

Thu Feb 23 22:47:00 2006

Alan Kay preopares for his talk(click to enlarge) Alan Kay's evening talk is entitled Learners, Powerful ideas, and the $100 Laptop. He says that he's never found the right order for the ideas in the title. Computer companies in the 1960s thought Moore's law meant that they'd get higher margins. Web presses are amazing pieces of technology, but when you look at it, you don't see anything that tells you about how it changes things. Similarly, looking at the DynaBook in 1968 doesn't tell you the most important things. Thus, the idea of a $100 laptop isn't important because of
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