Comments on: 5 laws of human nature and online collaborative communities

By: David

David — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:20:59 +0000

So could we use the law to manage expectations of younger learners, reel them in from looking forward or manage their frustations of technology. I did some reasearch for a major bank a while ago and one of the findings was that younger people got more frustrated with slow or unharmonised bank processes, because they knew they were uncessasy, created by people or technologies. Eg why cant I do my account opening on my phone, get half way through, then finish it at the branch. Thier viewpoint was creatd because other products and srvices could do this, so why not the bank? Fro the banks perspective, these expectations were unreasonable, given the increadible complexity in creating channel harmonisation, they were working on it, but had yet to acheive it.

By: Michael Josefowicz

Michael Josefowicz — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:16:19 +0000

Re: 5. Maes-Garreau law, – Any prediction about a favourable future technology falls just within the expected lifespan of the person making it.

This is the first time I’ve encountered it and haven’t yet followed the links.

But I think it points to the under appreciated critical importance of the time horizon in helping to see the mechanisms of education. Things tend to more easily engage when it’s clear when it fits.

One might see the process of maturation as extensions of the time horizon. Children live in now. Adolescents move from now to a forward looking then. Adults live in now, but have the ability to look to backward thens and forward thens.

In that context you might find interesting an admittedly somewhat opaque post I did a while ago. http://ilnk.me/1032

By: David

David — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:15:47 +0000

Thanks, am working on the chrome issue

By: Vijay

Vijay — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:29:50 +0000

Surprisingly mind-broadening learning capsule! I tried to subscribe to your RSS feed but it is not working under Chrome.