I feel like my teachers always emphasized the importance of group work but kind of threw us to the wolves to figure out how to do it, especially when we are all supposed to be equal players with no manager to oversee the final product. Can you recommend any resources for how to do effective, professional group work among peers?
Brainstorming has developed a fraught reputation, perhaps deservedly so. When groups of people are thrown together and expected to come up with original ideas, there is often too much pressure to be creative—resulting in ideas that are anything but. But what if brainstorms were designed to generate questions, not ideas? It’s an approach that’s being…
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. Researchers have been investigating the novelty effect for decades. It started in the 1930s at the Wawthorne Works factory. The factory wanted to see if changed the lighting improved productivity. It turns out…
Today’s generation of fighter pilots could be the last of their breed, thanks to an AI system dubbed ALPHA that’s proving unkillable in air combat. The US Air Force has just completed dogfighting trials in a simulator, pitching the software against retired Air Force Colonel Gene Lee. The AI – which ran on a $35…
Top 3 posts of the week Sharing: 4 Reasons That Technology Might Not Be Helping Them Learn Seems to be a recurring theme, don’t do technology for technology’s sake. ⓔ Highlight the minimum and maximum cell in a Google Sheet column #gafetip #itip15 Although it’s a little tricky to set up, I use this all…
This “c factor” is not strongly correlated with the average or maximum individual intelligence of group members but is correlated with the average social sensitivity of group members, the equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking, and the proportion of females in the group. Source: Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups |…
I received an email from Adobe support regarding inappropriate pictures that can be found in the image search. Image Searches Adobe Spark features free public domain image searches. In addition, when using Spark Video, students are provided access to hundreds of thousands of free icons that can be used in presentations. Adobe Spark employs a…
