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Kevin Makice

Four-year-olds know that being right is not enough - 0 views

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age four children knowledgeable relaying information detection

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  • Kevin Makice on 30 Aug 11
     
    As they grow, children learn a lot about the world from what other people tell them. Along the way, they have to figure out who is a reliable source of information. A new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that when children reach around 4 years, they start noticing whether someone is actually knowledgeable or if they're just getting the answers from someone else.
Kevin Makice

Too much data disables your decision making - 0 views

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decision making research information overload Princeton Stanford curiosity

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    "We like to think that more information drives smarter decisions; that the more details we absorb, the better off we'll be. It's why we subscribe to Google Alerts, cling to our iPhone, and fire up our Tweetdeck. Knowledge, we're told, is power. But what if our thirst for data is actually holding us back? What if obsessing over information actually reduces the quality of our decisions? That's the question raised by Princeton and Stanford University psychologists in a fascinating study titled On the Pursuit and Misuse of Useless Information."
christian briggs

What Teens Get About the Internet That Parents Don't - Mimi Ito - The Atlantic - 0 views

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Internet parents kids Mimi Ito learning

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  • Parents more often than not have a negative view of the role of the Internet in learning, and young people almost always have a positive one.
  • Young people are desperate for learning that is relevant and part of the fabric of their social lives, where they are making choices about how, when, and what to learn, without it all being mapped for them in advance. Learning on the Internet is about posting a burning question on a forum like Quora or Stack Exchange, searching for a how to video on YouTube or Vimeo, or browsing a site like Instructables, Skillshare, and Mentormob for a new project to pick up. It's not just professors who have something to share, but everyone who has knowledge and skills.
  • The Internet and her friends have offered my daughter a lifeline to explore new interests that are not just about the resume and getting ahead of everyone else. In today's high-pressure climate for teens, the Internet is feeling more and more like one of the few havens they can find for the lessons that matter most.
christian briggs

Data from social networks are making social science more scientific. (via @TheEconomist) - 0 views

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alessandro vespignani social physics GLEAM

shared by christian briggs on 09 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Alessandro Vespignani, one of Dr Song’s colleagues at Northeastern, discussed what might be done with such knowledge. Dr Vespignani, another moonlighting physicist, studies epidemiology. He and his team have created a program called GLEAM (Global Epidemic and Mobility Model) that divides the world into hundreds of thousands of squares. It models travel patterns between these squares (busy roads, flight paths and so on) using equations based on data as various as international air links and school holidays. The result is impressive. In 2009, for example, there was an outbreak of a strain of influenza called H1N1. GLEAM mimicked what actually happened with great fidelity. In most countries it calculated to within a week when the number of new infections peaked. In no case was the calculation out by more than a fortnight
  • christian briggs on 09 Mar 13
     
    Data from social networks are making social science more scientific (via @TheEconomist)
christian briggs

Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Inno... - 0 views

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innovation design open innovation democratization of innovation

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  • christian briggs on 12 Feb 11
     
    The researchers argue that as design and communication costs decline, single user and open collaborative innovation models will be viable for a steadily wider range of design. These two models will present an increasing challenge to the traditional paradigm of producer-based design-but, when open, they are good for social welfare and should be encouraged by policymakers.
christian briggs

Does Your Company Know What It Knows? - Andrew McAfee - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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enterprise 2.0 knowledge

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  • christian briggs on 23 Feb 11
     
    Organizations that are willing to overturn their communication norms can, with today's digital tools, access these benefits. Those that don't embrace Enterprise 2.0, meanwhile, will stay closer to their historical levels of knowing what they know. Which type would you prefer to work for? To invest in?
Kevin Makice

US astronaut fears 'memory' gap after shuttle ends - 0 views

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Mark Kelly NASA space shuttle program discontinue tacit knowledge transfer organization talent risk information

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  • Kevin Makice on 01 Jun 11
     
    US astronaut Mark Kelly, who is commanding the shuttle Endeavour's final space flight, said Tuesday he is concerned about a drain of NASA talent once the US shuttle program ends later this year.
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