Monkeymagicthoughts on thinkingLinks for July 13th- July 14, 2008 Neighbourhoods: Community engagement &8216;may be delusory&8217;Is perfromance management antithetical to community engagement &8220;A practitioner &8230;said he understood community engagement when he realised he didn&8217;t need to feel he&8217;d failed because a box wasn&8217;t ticked&8221;Tags: community engagement performance management two kinds of training (3 July, 2008, Interconnected)The most powerful form is variable-interval reinforcement. ...http://www.monkeymagic.net/2008/07/14/links-for-july-13th-2/ The Language of Sanity- July 13, 2008 Mind Hacks points to some interesting research on language and psychosis. Mr Z illustrates the marked change in phenomenology that can be observed in such patients. He was a 30-year-old patient diagnosed as hypomanic with a history of bipolar illnesses. His mother tongue was English, and he had learnt Spanish after puberty. When he spoke in ...http://www.monkeymagic.net/2008/07/13/the-language-of-sanity/ Links for July 11th- July 12, 2008 The seductive allure of neuroscience explanationvia idiolectTags: neuroscience psychology belief persuasion gullibility The Mirror Neuron Revolution: Explaining What Makes Humans SocialMirror neurons are activated both when we perform a certain action&226;such as smiling or reaching for a cup&226;and when we observe someone else performing that same action. In other words, they collapse the distinction between ...http://www.monkeymagic.net/2008/07/12/links-for-july-11th-2/ Being caught out- July 11, 2008 From Times Higher Education via idiolect &8220;If we don&8217;t put ourselves under pressure, nothing interesting or exciting is going to happen. How could it In fact, what we&8217;ve done is spent three hours the previous night making sure that it doesn&8217;t happen. &8220;Then we have the gall to offer these hours of preparation as morally sound. Self-protection ...http://www.monkeymagic.net/2008/07/11/being-caught-out/ T.E.Lawrence on Discipline- July 11, 2008 From Seven Pillars of Wisdom: &8230; it had seemed to me that discipline, or at least formal discipline, was a virtue of peace: a character or stamp by which to mark off soldiers from complete men, and obliterate the humanity of the individual. It resolved itself easiest into the restrictive, the making of men not ...http://www.monkeymagic.net/2008/07/11/telawrence-on-discipline/ Links for July 10th- July 11, 2008 What video game offences parents most fearSigh &8230; 26% - A graphically severed human head 27% - Two men kissing 37% - A man and a woman having sex Tags: games parents fear Is Google Making Us Stupid&8220;The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.&8221; Depends mainly on time ...http://www.monkeymagic.net/2008/07/11/links-for-july-10th/ Institutional Change & Cost of Failure- July 10, 2008 Thought this was worth thinking about. One of the things that Shirkey writes about is how the new social tools and the powerline graph of user use success downloads etc&8230; has meant that there is no longer a high cost of failure. He uses SourceForge and MeetUp as two examples where if a ...http://www.monkeymagic.net/2008/07/10/institutional-change-cost-of-failure/ |