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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): What if "This is your brain on drugs".was a good thing?

Mark Oehlert

Im on board with that but then comes this article in The Escapist, " This is your brain on smart drugs." " So now Im thinking, wow, that really puts a Flowers for Algernon or Terminal Man spin on the whole "made not born" issue doesnt it? " OK.so was a good thing? Is it from The Edge or his book?)

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Will Thalheimer and the Answer to Who Learns What from Where

Mark Oehlert

Maybe we all need to read SWAY: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior and try to understand how we got here. Will Thalheimer just brilliantly asked a great question - who do you learn from? He asked this of retail clerks but you have to wonder how different the results would be for the typical office worker population.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Soapbox for the Day: Academic Journals like Field Methods, that dont support things like access to their content

Mark Oehlert

previous rants on this topic ) Until I get some explanations though, Im pretty well amazed at the academics involved in this scheme. Im feeling stupid here because I just dont freaking get it! Usually the "peers" who review articles, arent paid or theyre paid very little. I swear, I m just sitting here shaking my head.I

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Thousands of people at IBM are already doing it.

Mark Oehlert

o Any employee can have a blog, a wiki, or a podcast. This minimizes inappropriate behavior. Each tag is linked back to the tagger’s BluePagesprofile, and clicking on the tagger’s name lets a user send the personan IM o IBM owns more than 50 islands in Second Life. o IBM has more than 20,000 wikis with more than 100,000 users.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): All Hail the Cult of the Amateur!! Sign me up for a lifetime membership!

Mark Oehlert

Keen is ready with "we need laws, a series of social contracts, to constructively regulate our behavior on the Internet." Here is what Keen sees when he looks at the Internet "I mostly see cultural and ethical chaos. " That is a dark world that Keen lives in isnt it? Want to know what can fix such a horrible thing?