Real journalism – and by that I mean fact-based reporting – is getting trounced by commentary and opinion in all its forms, from Fox News to the political blogs to Jon Stewart. Everyone knows newspapers are in horrible trouble. TV news continually loses ratings. And one way we broadcast journalists can fight back and hold our audience is to sound like human beings on the air. Not know-it-all stiffs. One way the opinion guys kick our ass and appeal to an audience is that they talk like normal people, not like news robots speaking their stentorian news-speak. So I wish more broadcast journalism had such human narrators at its center. I think that would help fact-based journalism survive.
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Systems Intelligence (SI) is a new concept introduced in 2002 by the principal investigators. The research group develops the conceptual basis of this competence and studies its different forms and manifestations in personal and organizational contexts. We seek to distribute knowledge and stimulate interest in Systems Intelligence in different fields including management practices, learning organizations, education, human relationships, etc. By Systems Intelligence we mean intelligent behaviour in the context of complex systems involving interaction and feedback. A subject acting with systems intelligence engages successfully and productively with the holistic feedback mechanisms of her environment. She perceives herself as part of the whole, the influence of the whole upon herself as well as her own influence upon the whole. Observing her own interdependency with the feedback-intensive environment, she is able to act intelligently.
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Thanks Howard for having conducted this interview and having allowed George Siemens to expose the philisophy behind his MOOKC idea. Great educational content. Also a path is shown for the future of self-determined and self-managed, life-long autonomous, learning in teams and around personal and wider, global, community networks "George Siemens, at the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute at Athabasca Universityhas been running "Massive Open Online Courses" (MOOCs). I talk to him about what a MOOC is, how it works, and the educational philosophy behind it." Excellent Interview by Howard Rheingold
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This video is really great. Howard is a master interviewer. George Siemens is provoked in answering the kind of questions that allow the viewer to reallt comprehend his thinking and the power of his MOOC. By the same token, it gives a nice indication of the similarity in design that Howard is following for his course... When will the two combine to a greater whole
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Transom » Radiolab: An Appreciation by Ira Glass - 0 views
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particularly the places where the story turns, or where the hosts are to take different sides of an issue, those moments are always improvised.
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Thus the utterly effortless chitchat that floats you so cheerfully from plot point to character moment to scientific explanation to the next plot point is actually worked over second by second and beat by beat, over the course of weeks.
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Jad’s an Oberlin-trained composer so he’s always either writing the music to fit the stories on his show, the way a composer writes a film score, or he adapts other people’s music so well you can’t tell it wasn’t custom made.
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And all that meticulous work is in the service of something that’s the opposite of careful and meticulous: this totally chatty, happy, loose, spontaneous-sounding conversation between Jad and Robert and their interviewees.
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on Radiolab. They invented this insanely concise, entertaining way to tell that story, and they have no problem hurtling through it quickly.
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For my part, I find it comforting that this level of excellence is so labor intensive that they only can make ten full shows a year (plus, sure, 16 “shorts” that they distribute on the Internet). If they could do an hour of this every week, I think I’d have to quit radio. What would be the point of continuing? How could anyone compete with that?
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There was an entire hour recently that took up the provocative question: from an evolutionary perspective, why would it be useful for us, or for any creature, to ever help one another? To ever be good? That’s a really hard premise for stories with ideas and emotion and strong characters and interesting plot lines.
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“In an almost comic attempt to make their job hard, the duo take only the most difficult subjects from science and philosophy: ‘Time,’ ‘Morality,’ ‘Memory and Forgetting,’ ‘Limits.’”
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What’s striking is the ambition of all this. Jad and Robert seem to be inventing their effects and techniques as they go.
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Sometimes it seems like the only people who understand how terrific the show is, are listeners.
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Radiolab also does a beautiful job figuring out a mix of stories that’ll move us from one idea to the next over the course of an hour. Lots of their episodes have a coherent argument to them, an argument that takes an hour and several stories to lay out.
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Radiolab: An Appreciation I marvel at Radiolab when I hear it. I feel jealous. Its co-creators Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich have digested all the storytelling and production tricks of everyone in public radio before them, invented some slick moves of their own, and ended up creating the rarest thing you can create in any medium: a new aesthetic.
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A 2010 NPR/SmithGeiger survey of news consumers who rightly should be in the public radio audience, showed that one of the biggest reasons adults say they choose not to listen to public radio is that they’re put off by the tone. One survey respondent said: “This type of story could be interesting, but the reporter’s voice and intonation is soooo affected, upper class, wasp, Ph.D. student-like, it detracts from the story.
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This information is presented quickly and cheerfully. There’s a bounce to the whole thing. Music plays behind. Jad looks at a map, as he’s talking to Laura, naming the cities the balloon passed on its flight across England. It’s visual. Do I need to explain here that part of making great radio is remembering that you always need to give the audience things to look at?
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All this banter also helps them solve a storytelling problem
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Radiolab: An Appreciation I marvel at Radiolab when I hear it. I feel jealous. Its co-creators Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich have digested all the storytelling and production tricks of everyone in public radio before them, invented some slick moves of their own, and ended up creating the rarest thing you can create in any medium: a new aesthetic. -
Telling a story - capturing the attention and curiosity of people. Sparking our humanity.
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Mission for week two: Evolution of cooperation questions (ACTION REQUESTED) | Social Me... - 0 views
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Pavel's
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a lot of smart people across the region also begin to identify themselves with one of the sides, inevitably getting involved in arguments they don't want to be part of, raising hostility towards each other.
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ake control over our pre-wired responses.
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awareness (such as meditation)
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help people learn how to identify and de-identify with various groups, by allowing them to experience the variety of social contexts.
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Roland's
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not only be critical thinking but systems thinking
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help people become more self-dependent.
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experiences are organized for children from the early age
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raise the level of critical thinking
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Education is liberating.
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The notion of indirect reciprocity could be important here: doing things for those groups without expecting to get a return, but setting an example
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reject the notion of tribes or of people being permanently and essentially bad and extremist, and to be welcoming and kind
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Bodil's
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I can work with other communities which are open, tolerant and welcoming.
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Better distribution of resources.
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reputation and trust
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know how to build trust and create cooperation, we should know something about breaking bad patterns
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knowledge about social dilemmas
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“growth mindset”
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David's
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separating fiction from fact,
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interaction in order to reveal the "true" characteristics of inform
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physical security, enough to eat, a place to sleep, freedom from threat.
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John's
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little can be done at the level of the individual, other than being aware that our appreciation of ideas, and our tendency to engage in counterproductive behavior may be due to forces other than the ideas themselves.
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becoming aware of our own weaknesses with regard to absorbing new information
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it is possible to gather individuals into a super organism that is less vulnerable to being victimized by false or misleading information,
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we need access to information and skill in critical thinking
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Hermano's
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My political answer is internationalism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalism_(politics).
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High level of material, political, physical, psychological etc personal independance
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My cultural answer is to displace the ubiquitous narrative of competition by this narrative of cooperative
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traces of trustworthiness online,
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tactical tool is the internet.
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empowers the common man to act at multiple levels, assuming responsibility for all the nested groups to which he would belong.
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Inger's
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Fighting discrimination
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stereotypes
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negative stereotypes
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experience the feeling of discrimination in order to fight it.
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Discrimination starts with stereotypes that turn into prejudice, and the individual becomes a member of a group that is dehmanised and stripped of human qualities.
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Elena's
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Meditation skills
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life satisfaction
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transferring an ultimate level of governance and common legislation to structures above nation states
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Practices of integration of spirit-mind-body
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value of own life and personal voe not to destroy self
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Calisa's
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only possible escape route is to get a glimpse of life on the outside, to see that there are different ways to live one's life, to understand that there are choices.
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only through the glimpse can the child even begin to contemplate the notion of breaking the "pre-wiring"
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glimpse does not guarantee escape
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shine your light brightly:
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If there are children in your life, invest in them
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Sahil's
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Stay informed about the big, complex world-shaping issues
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Use technology to express yourself beyond your home and workplace
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same forces producing the 'dark' forms of social cooperation mentioned above - compliance, conformance, solidarity - are perhaps the same forces behind 'good' cooperation.
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continually trying to re-imagine our 'imagined communities'
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the more connected we are, the more we'll be forced to recognize others' interests as our own.
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might include: cultural traits and norms based on morality (i.e. religion), integration of market economies, promoting greater free-flow of people/ideas, promoting denser urban centers, open access to information, monogamy??, anti-nepotism norms, cooperative higher institutions (with ability to manage laws/reputations/punishment).
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Luis'
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We are “pre-wired” to cooperate within our tribe
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impact of group identity
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“manifold and profound”
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make group identity salient
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redefining the boundaries of the group to include more people is the best opportunity for change
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Once you include everyone in the group, you find ways to encourage interactions among both sub-groups,
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narcos manage to stay loyal and cooperate within their cartel when competing against other cartels with equally loyal members.
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discourage cooperation inside the cartel groups
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Assurance game, because one narco will only fight if the other fights, and will defect if the other defects
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The key issue in the Assurance Game is whether we can trust each other.