Why does everything suck?: Apple Has Learned The Importance of Play. We Should Too (5)
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On Wednesday I attended the Sandbox Summit here in New York, which is a conference about the intersection between technology, toys, play, and learning. For someone deeply embedded in the software development world, but also deeply troubled by the state of education in America, the event seemed fascinating and also pregnant with possibility. And it did not disappoint.And while many of the speakers had lots of really interesting stuff to say, one statement by Nancy ...
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Leon said:
pretty tough to disagree with this.
Official Google Blog: Our Googley advice to students: Major in learning (19)
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Management guru Peter Drucker noted that companies attracting the best knowledge workers will "secure the single biggest factor for competitive advantage." We and other forward-looking companies put a lot of effort into hiring such people. What are we looking for?At the highest level, we are looking for non-routine problem-solving skills. We expect applicants to be able to solve routine problems as a matter of course. After all, that's what most education is concerned with. But ...
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Jardenberg said:
Jonathan Rosenberg berättar vad han (och google) letar efter när de anställer folk. En "mjuk" lista. Hur ser dina kriterier ut?
Alan Kay on 'The Camel has Two Humps' (9)
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I had some amazing comments left here by Alan Kay himself. Alan Kay (for those who haven't been paying attention) is the father of smalltalk, pioneer of Object-Oriented Programming (plus dynamic programming, message-based programming, gui-environments and much more), 2003 Turing Award Winner... he's a visionary without whom there'd likely be no windows in MS Windows (or Macs), no 'one laptop per child' program and many more things besides all that. Alan from Tron? Based on ...
