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Blair Peterson

A Tech Geek on Why We Need the Humanities | Input/Output | Big Think - 0 views

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  • And John Seely Brown, a visionary technologist and innovation expert, argues that foregrounding the Humanities is our only hope of sustaining innovation in the United States. As physicist Michio Kaku has pointed out, the only jobs left to humans in the not-so-distant future will be those that computers can’t do – the kind that demand intuition and creative thinking.
Blair Peterson

The Future of 21st Century Science: Tearing Down Knowledge Silos | Think Tank | Big Think - 0 views

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  • Artificial disciplinary boundaries were drawn, and research was put in silos that grew ever narrower. Therefore, you have scientists who study mice. You have scientists who study yeast. Institutional boundaries and funding incentives often discourage, rather than encourage people in different fields to collaborate. 
  • The interdisciplinary approach both to research and learning is starting to gain favor again because people are starting to recognize the dysfunction that is often apparent in large research institutions, but also because the small and nimble research labs are proving they have a method for speeding the pace and reducing the cost of discovery. 
Blair Peterson

Humanizing Technology | Special Series | Big Think - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 03 May 12
     
    I love this series on humanizing technology. They present some excellent ideas that generate difficult questions. The most recent piece is on how Rio is using technology to become a smart city. 
Blair Peterson

Jaron Lanier: Let's Unmask the Great and Powerful Oz of Technology | Input/Output | Big... - 0 views

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  • But Lanier argues that we’d be better served by broad-based computer literacy courses that teach the logic behind our IT
Blair Peterson

Study: U.S. Adults Possess Only Average Skills | Big Think Edge | Big Think - 0 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 09 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • To solve this problem, we obviously need to address the inadequacies of both the K-12 system as well as college, where students are graduating without the real-life skills that will give them a competitive edge in the global job market. 
  • The responsibility of committing to lifelong learning certainly falls on individuals if they hope to get ahead. But the responsibility falls on companies as well. In fact, if businesses do not make the investment in the professional development of their employees, they will lose the best ones (and, perversely, keep the worst ones).
Blair Peterson

Adventures in Experimental Philosophy: Training Your Brain to Innovate | Big Think Ment... - 0 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 20 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Ask naïve questions, invert perceptions, combine incompatible ideas, remix metaphors and pursue paradox. 
  • yet I think that if you take these as a point of departure, as I sometimes do, you'll find that you get outside of yourself in terms of your routines, your education and your common sense.  And you start to look at the world in different ways that may lead you to ideas that you never knew that you had. 
Blair Peterson

Blah blah blah life long learning blah blah blah | Dangerously Irrelevant | Big Think - 1 views

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  • How many of us stand up in front of kids and say, "This is what I'm learning right now. I'm not any good at the moment but this is the process I'm following and this is what my plan is for achieving success. And I’ll give you an update in a few weeks, and then another few weeks, and so on, about how I’m doing?"
  • How many of us purposefully and explicitly show our students what it means to struggle with learning, overcome obstacles, and emerge on the other side more skilled and more knowledgeable than we were before? You already know the answer: nearly zero.
  • We feel like we have to be the 'experts' instead of co-learners.
  • Blair Peterson on 24 May 11
     
    Nice post from Scott that encourages educators to be learners and to model the behavior.
Colleen Broderick

Are your local schoolchildren 'students' or 'learners?' | Dangerously Irrelevant | Big ... - 2 views

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  • Colleen Broderick on 22 May 11
     
    I love this table from Warlick as a simple reflection tool. No need to keep it confined to students, however, since this prompted equally important questions when I think about the teachers I work with...
Blair Peterson

The Crisis of Meaning in the Millenial Workforce | Rogser Martin | Big Think - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 26 Sep 11
     
    What motivates millenials?
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Penn Jillette | Magician | Big Think - 1 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 04 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Blair Peterson on 04 Sep 11
     
    Want to know what Penn Jillette thinks the future of magic will be like? He says that David Blaine's street magic was a huge shift in practice. Don't have real breakthroughs because there just aren't that many magicians practicing. Magic is not conducive to new technology. No one is using cutting edge technology. 
Blair Peterson

Innovate, Or Get Out of the Way! | Think Tank | Big Think - 0 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 19 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • "I define an expert as someone who can tell you exactly how something can’t be done,"
  • What's the root cause of a market failure? Why does that market failure exist?  Why doesn’t the goal you want to achieve in the world exist right now? What’s keeping it from happening?
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