tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21077063.post7213638821556204234..comments2024-02-16T08:32:46.618+00:00Comments on Donald Clark Plan B: Google: first MOOP (Massive Online Open Pedagogy)Donald Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00796341486328270474noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21077063.post-64318850569246062092013-02-15T15:42:57.451+00:002013-02-15T15:42:57.451+00:00Donald, I have to agree with your observations. I ...Donald, I have to agree with your observations. I remember as an older medical student (after many years of traditional ed and life experience) being bored with memorizing and started watching Google Tech Talks to keep my mind stimulated and actually used what I learned about neuroplasticity from the above with my stroke patients. Though I no longer practice medicine, I still have everything one needs to know to be an effective GP on my Android smarter than me phone proper algorithms included.#edcmoocAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04024622408666903602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21077063.post-83625406790614959372013-02-12T13:22:04.368+00:002013-02-12T13:22:04.368+00:00Susan Greenfield has become a bit of a joke in thi...Susan Greenfield has become a bit of a joke in this filed. See my comments http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=susan+greenfield<br />Not sure about the comparison with diabetes and obesity. There are no benefits in having diabetes ad you have to distinguish between Type 1&2. Again, I can't see that an abundance of curiosity; learning and knowledge is comparable to obesity. Donald Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00796341486328270474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21077063.post-66155206793164817082013-02-12T13:15:51.597+00:002013-02-12T13:15:51.597+00:00Agreed the world average effect of internet techno...Agreed the world average effect of internet technologies will be positive and the products of the internet will continue to transform access to knowledge very economically (which is to be celebrated in my view).<br /><br />However I’m interested in the steady state position (not that we’ll have such a thing in the near future). I wonder if comfortable middle classes in rich countries will not only lose relative advantage in term of access to information/education, but will also perform poorly in "deep concentration" tasks and slowly as other countries attain more wealth will a similar pattern emerge?<br /> RE: Plasticity, I only have a "pop science" level of understanding in this area. Previous encounters with what I would call 'plasticity' include:<br /> Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Phantoms in the Brain - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/lecture1.shtml <br />"So what happens is the sensory input from the face skin now invades the vacated territory corresponding to the missing hand, and that then is misinterpreted by higher centers in the brain and arising from the missing phantom hand"<br />Also<br />Ed Yong "How acquiring The Knowledge changes the brains of London cab drivers" http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/12/08/acquiring-the-knowledge-changes-the-brains-of-london-cab-drivers/#.URoqMPLDLG1<br />And most controversially<br />Susan Greenfield: "The internet and 'mind-change'" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri4_CW9P41s<br />I suspect that we are in the same arena as video games. In her TED talk "Daphne Bavelier: Your brain on video games" (http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_bavelier_your_brain_on_video_games.html) reveals that a sweet spot of 40 minutes spent playing certain types of video games can improve cognitive ability. <br />My concern is that we aren't very good at keeping to these sweet spots (see obesity, diabetes etc )<br />In regard to Flynn I’d draw parallels with nutrition, on average people born in the West over the last 50 years have been taller than those born 100 years ago. However obesity has followed a similar pattern ( see http://www.voxeu.org/article/100-years-us-obesity).<br />To stretch the comparison, in my view it would be pertinent to anticipate the obesity whilst also celebrating the height offered by this new information paradigm.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10706893852892512747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21077063.post-9287550653156736312013-02-12T01:02:52.744+00:002013-02-12T01:02:52.744+00:00Well my guess, based on the Flynn Effect, is that&...Well my guess, based on the Flynn Effect, is that's it's all positive. The mind is not wholly 'plastic' that's an old behaviourist myth and every time a new medium comes along, we see it through pathological glasses. Rather than seeing 'search' as a huge epistemological leap we are in danger of seeing it as some sort of epistemological deficit. I find it hard to believe that finding things out quicker than we did before can be anything other than a plus.Donald Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00796341486328270474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21077063.post-17142966314329685042013-02-11T22:24:47.997+00:002013-02-11T22:24:47.997+00:00I agree in the main,though the next challenge is t...I agree in the main,though the next challenge is to find out what effect this information buzz has on our plastic minds. Of particular interest - what is the impact on skills like sustained concentration and thought or deduction? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10706893852892512747noreply@blogger.com