I have been digging more into the subject of informational cascades as I work on editing my submission to eLearn on “emergent learning” (which I’m going to refer to as social learning instead, given the current lack of agreement about what “emergent learning” means). The more I dig, the more excited I get. There’s some […]
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Book Recommendation: The Selfish Gene
It may seem odd, given the focus of this blog, to recommend a book on evolutionary biology. But Richard Dawkins’ book The Selfish Gene lays a solid foundation for helping to understand developments in the aggregation sciences. Dawkins’ main thesis is that evolution is driven by the survival of the fittest genes, not organisms and […]
The Problem with "Emergent Learning:" Informational Cascades
I just submitted an article to eLearn Magazine that starts to get at one of the reasons why I am skeptical about emergent learning as a panacea. I’m not going to give away too many of the surprises here (unless eLearn decides not to publish the article, in which case I will post it here), […]