Clark Quinn

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Foundations of Learning Science

Clark Quinn

Here, the focus was on schooling, and included cultural and motivational factors. I think the care is cognitive science: how we process information. While there are neural underpinnings, most of the results and prescriptions operate at the cognitive level, or above. The notion of scientific education had yet to emerge.

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Changing Culture: Scaling Up Excellence

Clark Quinn

I’ve found myself picking up books about how to change culture, as it seems to be the big barrier to a successful revolution. Another suite of principles include cutting the cognitive load to getting things done the right way, mixing together emotional issues with clever approach, connecting people.

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Making Sparks Fly

Clark Quinn

In the former, it’s about two things: getting the real cognitive underpinning right, and the emotional content, both integrated in a natural and elegant way. Then we elaborate with model-based concepts and story-based examples. So you start with your objectives (at a high enough level, addressing real business needs).

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Addressing Changes

Clark Quinn

For example, we need to understand situated and distributed cognition. We also need to understand cultural elements. Further, we need to recognize that they’re all tied together, not separate things. So, for instance, we learn as we work, we think as we learn, etc.

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Designing for an uncertain world

Clark Quinn

It’s in the nature of our cognitive architecture to have some randomness. For example trying to debug problems between hardware device and network service provider, and if you’re trying to provide a total customer experience, the old “it’s the other guy’s fault&# just isn’t going to cut it.

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