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Ed Webb

Networks are Killing Science - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 28 Aug 09 - Cached
  • At the heart of scientific thinking has to be a strong desire not to fool yourself, coupled by an understanding of how to actually put that desire into practice.
  • this emerging scientific culture that bizarrely believes that if you can produce a model that fits the data that inspired you to build the model, you've actually shown that your model accurately captures the system. This culture floods the scientific literature with zero-impact papers, dazzles the computationally naïve, captures a lot of air time in the news.
  • The computer models can be dazzling, but unless they produce a demonstrated string of successes that end up changing the way everyone in the field thinks - the molecular biologists, the sociologists, the economists, then the sciences of complexity will be dismissed as unfruitful. In the end, your model has to inspire a someone to pick up a pipette and design an experiment.
Ed Webb

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody - 1 views

www.shirky.com/...looking-for-the-mouse.html

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shared by Ed Webb on 28 Sep 09 - Cached
  • television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit, that's 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television. Or put still another way, in the U.S., we spend 100 million hours every weekend, just watching the ads.
  • The physics of participation is much more like the physics of weather than it is like the physics of gravity. We know all the forces that combine to make these kinds of things work: there's an interesting community over here, there's an interesting sharing model over there, those people are collaborating on open source software. But despite knowing the inputs, we can't predict the outputs yet because there's so much complexity.
  • The normal case of social software is still failure; most of these experiments don't pan out. But the ones that do are quite incredible
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  • It's better to do something than to do nothing. Even lolcats, even cute pictures of kittens made even cuter with the addition of cute captions, hold out an invitation to participation. When you see a lolcat, one of the things it says to the viewer is, "If you have some sans-serif fonts on your computer, you can play this game, too." And that's message--I can do that, too--is a big change.
  • media is actually a triathlon, it 's three different events. People like to consume, but they also like to produce, and they like to share.
  • Here's something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken. Here's something four-year-olds know: Media that's targeted at you but doesn't include you may not be worth sitting still for. Those are things that make me believe that this is a one-way change. Because four year olds, the people who are soaking most deeply in the current environment, who won't have to go through the trauma that I have to go through of trying to unlearn a childhood spent watching Gilligan's Island, they just assume that media includes consuming, producing and sharing.
Ed Webb

Higher education curricula not keeping pace with societal, tech changes - 3 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...101018174416.htm

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shared by Ed Webb on 19 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • "Students in a global community, whether they are from Central America, Europe, Africa, Asia, or the United States, will face similar challenges; however the historical and social context surrounding solutions to such challenges necessarily differ," Laubichler says. "Our students will increasingly have the means to talk directly with each other in real time, and through such interactive forums, develop the intellectual tools to understand and address the complexity before them, in every human endeavor"
    • Lisa Durff
      Lisa Durff on 10 Dec 10
       
      So why aren't we students doing exactly this? Why in my doctoral class am I not engaging in collegiate discussions with my fellow doctoral students about connectivism. Why do I seek these very connections elsewhere? Maybe I'm a mutant........
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