This weeks reading was suggested by Nils and has two parts. Part I is How Social Networking Will Transform Learning by Tom Vander Ark who was the first Executive Director for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Nils has highlighted this quote fro…
This week's "reading" will be the TED talk by Daniel Pink on "The Surprising Science of Motivation." Pink, who wrote A Whole New Mind with its Manga version, Johnny Bunko, talks about motivation in business but it's not a great mental leap to see…
I found this piece stimulating on several levels. The quote contrasting "I think, therefore I am" with "We participate, therefore we are." is a interesting paradigm shift.
I wrote a response to the article, written after the last MGR was canceled.
The reading for this week will be Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 by John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler. It was suggested by Nils.
Hope to see you there...
October 5
theron has replied to a discussion in a Huddle workspace.
This Wednesday's reading will be the Reddit-TED interview with Sir Ken Robinson: http://blog.ted.com/2009/08/ted_and_reddit_1.php In the interview, Robinson responds to some assessment questions that will probably be of interest to MRG members. If…