learning

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Learning, or, Learning How To Learn

One of my most eye-opening early experiences was a tour of a local manufacturing plant during high school. One of our tour guides was a MIT trained engineer who accompanied us, explaining how everything worked. At the end of the tour, he gave each of us a picture of a

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communication

In Defense of the "Smackdown" Learning Model

I've occasionally been told that I have a confrontational style of communication . But that's not necessarily a bad thing – as Kathy Sierra points out, the smackdown learning model [http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/08/the_smackdown_l.html] can be surprisingly effective: >

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learning

Success through Failure

I found this Will Wright quote, from a roundtable at last week's E3, rather interesting: Will Wright said he's learned the most from games that seemed appealing on paper, but were failures in the marketplace. "I actually ask people when hiring how many failures they&

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