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It’s been a big week for the debate over gender and children’s toys. On Wednesday, the British toy purveyor Hamleys announced its decision to desegregate its offerings (which had previously been arranged in sections for boys and girls), instead opting to categorize them by type. Activists working for the spread of gender neutrality were thrilled;…
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Teachers Don’t Like Creative Students
by Alex Tabarrok on December 12, 2011 at 7:33 am in Economics, Education One of the most consistent findings in educational studies of creativity has been that teachers dislike personality traits associated with creativity. Research has indicated that teachers prefer traits that seem to run counter to creativity, such as conformity and unquestioning acceptance of…
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Alex Kehayias’s Blog: Learning to Code – I did it this year. Your turn.
Alex Kehayias’s Blog: Learning to Code – I did it this year. Your turn. alexkehayias: Next week marks the one year anniversary since I started to learn to code with no previous experience (I have a bullshit degree in marketing). I still worked full time on my startup while learning at night and on weekends.…
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bashford: reaDIYmate is about assembling your own wifi-connected gizmo in a few minutes. Personalize its shape. Change its behaviour on the web or your iPhone. Have it interact with your digital life and other reaDIYmate things in the real world. www.readiymate.com (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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Network thinking « Learning Change
Network thinking « Learning Change gfbertini: Curtis Ogden at The Interaction Institute provides a very good summary of the differences between network-centric and hierarchy-centric thinking, called Network Thinking: Adaptability instead of control Emergence instead of predictability Resilience and redundancy instead of rock stardom Contributions before credentials Diversity and divergence One…