Spark 195: Pagination, Education, Participation

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• Two main discussions of interest:  Enhancing education with technology and online collaboration. 
• Classrooms will/should become "hacker spaces" or "creative spaces" where students come together and with some guidance from the teacher, they build stuff.  This seems to make sense for classes such as industrial arts and computing science, but what about language arts (I'm thinking grammer) and social studies (I'm thinking history)? 
• The identity of "young people" today is "what I've built, shared, and what others have built upon".  Corporations will hire these digital leaders based on these attributes.  I argue that the same criteria can/should be applied to professionals currently in the IT industry
• Greater importance of imagination over creativity.  Whereas creativity is thinking about how to do something better, imagination is thinking of an entirely new way to approach a problem (thinking outside the box?)
• Rather than viewing the world as entities competing against each other, the natural way of the world may be collaboration between entities. 
• The "group IQ" of a collection of people is not most influenced by the IQ of the individuals but by the diversity of the group.  Having women in the mix also increases the group IQ
• If we look at the world we live in, if we were competing more than collaborating, would we have our cities, hockey leagues, the United Nations?  If competition was the driving force, I think it would be more of a Mad Max world, but without vehicles, since these probably would not have been invented