What happens when you are a monk used to transcribing scrolls and you are faced with the new technology called “book”? Well, you call the help desk.
Category Archives: Linking Thinking
The Audiocast Diaries
Government regulation of the radio industry heavily turned it into a one-way medium, controlling content, and limiting frequencies and ownership. Maybe this new technology [a convergence of podcasting, radio and mobile phones], which allows two-way communications, will change radio back to its origins of a two-way medium, as it was in Marconi’s day.
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The Changing Face of Workplace Learning
The future of workplace learning is mobile, and distributed mobile at that.
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Being an Unperson
“There is no such thing as a true unperson. An unperson is a ghost, a prejudice in people’s minds.” A beautiful and terrifying video of how we let people know they don’t matter by someone who clearly does.
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You don’t have to read a book to talk wisely about it
Distinguished professor of literature Pierre Bayard explains how to appear extremely well-read without turning a page.
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Shrinkwrap Licenses
Shrinkwrap and clickwrap agreements start with the phrase “READ CAREFULLY.” If you actually did this, you would discover these “agreements” make a mockery of the law and of the very idea of forming agreements.
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Al Gore’s Foot Soldiers
Want to really send a message? Make a movie and train dozens to disseminate its message a la former US Vice President Al Gore’s 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
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Learning with Audio: Lessons from Television — Monk, House, MD, and NCIS
“In medias res” is a technique used in TV and film in which the viewer is catapulted into the middle of the action, usually a dramatic pviotal moment on which the rest of the plot is structured. What is activated is emotional involvement…
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Unhappy Meals
The message is: eat food, mostly plants, not too much. Simple. So why is it so difficult to learn?
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Many of our decisions make sense only within a social environment. Sanfey shows how game theory models and neuroimaging methods help define the processes underlying social decision-making.