via @anya1anya 's post on fast company - life in beta: bold plan for change
We need to scrap the legacies of industrialism, everything from clock punching and rigid rules to SATs and HR departments. Instead, start celebrating "collaboration by difference" -- every team needs some people to count the passes and others to spot the gorilla.\
If you're that worried about distraction, something else is going on."
later reading:
tweet from dmlcentral: positive disruption
another post on now you see it on higher ed
We now know there is no such thing as monotasking on a neurological level. Neurons are always firing and the brain is constantly chattering to itself, calling upon different areas at once to respond in ways we are only now beginning to understand
if the issue is that Americans are working too hard at our jobs -- and we’re now working more hours per year than our parents did or than their parents did (and more than anyone in the world except South Koreans), then we should be addressing that real problem. Work speed-up and overload has social, economic, political and indeed cognitive consequences. In this situation, multitasking is the smokescreen for a much larger societal problem.
of course these new practices change our brains in some way - that's what learning is
First, it’s not the future. It’s the present that has changed. We have all gone through massive transformations of our work and social life in less than two decades and we’ve done an amazingly good job of it at one of humankind’s most dramatic moments. So the first thing we have to do is stop worrying so much.
The sociologists tell us that the cohort of students entering college this year are the least alienated, most family- and socially conscious, most politically engaged, friendliest, least drug- and alcohol-addicted, and least violent generation since World War II. Once we can breathe in and relax about that,curious what this means..
In the workplace, let’s demand software that helps us sort out our personal life from our work life.after reading Hsieh's delivering happiness - seems the culture zappos created there was no designation.. you were you.. work was life.
When we narrow the curriculum, we also make the realm in which kids can achieve even smaller, meaning fewer kids with diverse talents are likely to achieve