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Connected Minds

Author : Nicolas Payette
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443839167
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Connected Minds written by Nicolas Payette and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme for this volume is social cognition, construed from a psychological and collective point of view. From the psychological point of view, the question is to understand how the human mind processes social information; how it encodes, stores and uses it in the social context. From a collective point of view, the question is to understand how individual cognition is influenced (improved, increased or impaired) by social interactions, for instance in communicating and collaborating with intelligent agents. These two dimensions of social cognition are obviously interdependent: the psychological dimension makes the collective dimension possible, which can in return modify the psychological dimension. The book is divided into four parts. The first part is about socio-cognitive skills. Among those, we count face recognition, imitation learning, embodied social interaction, cheater detection and psychological concept acquisition. The second part is about persons and memories: stereotypes, attraction judgements and impression formation are the subjects at hand. The third part is about understanding each other. A key part of that understanding is the motor system (whether or not we see it as a “mirror”), but community membership itself can also contribute to our understanding of others. The fourth and final part is about social cognition in societies. This section is unified by the common goal of understand how social cognition actually influences the structure of different societies, whether whole cultures, specific social networks, rural communities or even groups of caterpillars!

Connected Minds

Author : C. C. Long
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1504369688
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Connected Minds written by C. C. Long and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After spending her life bouncing from one disaster to the next, Vanessa began to crave a normal life. Once she is back home, she is finding out that normal is hard to come by. With the lives of her loved ones evolving around her, she finds herself in the middle of a world she knows nothing about, but Vanessa Riggs is a quick study. As she is beginning to discover herself, she is also learning that those around her are finding themselves as well.

Educational Research and Innovation Connected Minds Technology and Today's Learners

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264111018
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Educational Research and Innovation Connected Minds Technology and Today's Learners written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-23 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the debate about the effects of technology attachment and connectedness on today’s learners, and their expectations about teaching.

Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures

Author : Steve Wheeler
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1607528355
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures written by Steve Wheeler and published by IAP. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title indicates, this book highlights the shifting and emergent features that represent life online, specifically in and around the territory of e-learning. Cybercultures in themselves are complex conglomerations of ideas, philosophies, concepts, and theories, some of which are fiercely contradictory. As a construct, "cyberculture" is a result of sustained attempts by diverse groups of people to make sense of multifarious activities, linguistic codes, and practices in complicated and ever-changing settings. It is an impossibly convoluted field. Any valid understanding of cyberculture can only be gained from living within it, and as Bell suggests, it is "made up of people, machines and stories in everyday life." Although this book contains a mix of perspectives, as the chapters progress, readers should detect some common threads. Technology-mediated activities are featured throughout, each evoking its particular cultural nuances and, as Derrick de Kerckhove (1997) has eloquently argued, technology acts as the skin of culture. All the authors are passionate about their subjects, every one engages critically with his or her topics, and each is fully committed to the belief that e-learning is a vitally important component in the future of education. All of the authors believe that digital learning environments will contribute massively to the success of the information society we now inhabit. Each is intent on exploration of the touchstone of "any time, any place" learning where temporal and spatial contexts cease to become barriers to learning, and where the boundaries are blurring between the formal and informal. This book is divided into four sections. In Part I, which has been titled "Digital Subcultures," we begin an exploration of “culture” and attempt to locate the learner within a number of digital subcultures that have arisen around new and emerging technologies such as mobile and handheld devices, collaborative online spaces, and podcasting. The chapters in this section represent attempts by the authors to demonstrate that there are many subdivisions present on the Web, and that online learners cannot and should not be represented as one vast amorphous mass of "Internet" users.

Consciousness Becomes You

Author : Angie Aristone
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785351346
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Consciousness Becomes You written by Angie Aristone and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine for a moment that your consciousness could leave your brain. What could you learn and discover? What could you accomplish if your mind could travel wherever you focused it, to understand anything you desire, directly, from the inside out? How would your relationships improve? What would the world look like if we could all understand one another on such an intimate level? What if you were told that that your consciousness not only can leave your brain, but that it already does, and that we are all immersed in a telepathic experience of the world, though few of us realize it? In Consciousness Becomes You, the authors share personal stories, grounded conversation, and scientific research to explain that part of our minds, the connected mind, is connected to everyone and everything. Beginning with how we already experience this connection in life, the book explores how this connection functions, its uses, and the myriad of ways we all already receive and share telepathic information.

Aesthetic Science

Author : Arthur P. Shimamura
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199732140
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetic Science written by Arthur P. Shimamura and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we do when we view a work of art? What does it mean to have an 'aesthetic' experience? Are such experiences purely in the eye of the beholder? This book addresses the nature of aesthetic experience from the perspectives of philosophy psychology and neuroscience.

Curious Minds

Author : Perry Zurn
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262370298
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Curious Minds written by Perry Zurn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhilarating, genre-bending exploration of curiosity’s powerful capacity to connect ideas and people. Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what’s left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems—the networks, the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett, is a practice of connection: it connects ideas into networks of knowledge, and it connects knowers themselves, both to the knowledge they seek and to each other. Zurn and Bassett—identical twins who write that their book “represents the thought of one mind and two bodies”—harness their respective expertise in the humanities and the sciences to get irrepressibly curious about curiosity. Traipsing across literatures of antiquity and medieval science, Victorian poetry and nature essays, as well as work by writers from a variety of marginalized communities, they trace a multitudinous curiosity. They identify three styles of curiosity—the busybody, who collects stories, creating loose knowledge networks; the hunter, who hunts down secrets or discoveries, creating tight networks; and the dancer, who takes leaps of creative imagination, creating loopy ones. Investigating what happens in a curious brain, they offer an accessible account of the network neuroscience of curiosity. And they sketch out a new kind of curiosity-centric and inclusive education that embraces everyone’s curiosity. The book performs the very curiosity that it describes, inviting readers to participate—to be curious with the book and not simply about it.

Social

Author : Matthew D. Lieberman
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307889114
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Social written by Matthew D. Lieberman and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are profoundly social creatures--more than we know. In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food or shelter. Because of this, our brain uses its spare time to learn about the social world--other people and our relation to them. It is believed that we must commit 10,000 hours to master a skill. According to Lieberman, each of us has spent 10,000 hours learning to make sense of people and groups by the time we are ten. Social argues that our need to reach out to and connect with others is a primary driver behind our behavior. We believe that pain and pleasure alone guide our actions. Yet, new research using fMRI--including a great deal of original research conducted by Lieberman and his UCLA lab--shows that our brains react to social pain and pleasure in much the same way as they do to physical pain and pleasure. Fortunately, the brain has evolved sophisticated mechanisms for securing our place in the social world. We have a unique ability to read other people’s minds, to figure out their hopes, fears, and motivations, allowing us to effectively coordinate our lives with one another. And our most private sense of who we are is intimately linked to the important people and groups in our lives. This wiring often leads us to restrain our selfish impulses for the greater good. These mechanisms lead to behavior that might seem irrational, but is really just the result of our deep social wiring and necessary for our success as a species. Based on the latest cutting edge research, the findings in Social have important real-world implications. Our schools and businesses, for example, attempt to minimalize social distractions. But this is exactly the wrong thing to do to encourage engagement and learning, and literally shuts down the social brain, leaving powerful neuro-cognitive resources untapped. The insights revealed in this pioneering book suggest ways to improve learning in schools, make the workplace more productive, and improve our overall well-being.

Future Smart

Author : James Canton
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306822873
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Future Smart written by James Canton and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Game-changing trends are coming in business, technology, workforce, economy, security, and environment. Climate change, energy demand, and population growth will redefine global risk and power. Exponential new technologies will emerge in digital money, mobile commerce, and big data. An explosive new middle class of over one billion consumers will enter the marketplace. Every nation, job, business, and person will be transformed. To thrive in this future you have to become predictive, adaptive, and agile—to become Future Smart. Dr. James Canton, a renowned global futurist and visionary business advisor, illuminates the pivotal forces and global power shifts that everyone must understand today to thrive in a rapidly changing landscape: Regenerative medicine will extend our lifetimes and rebuild our bodies Robots and drones will drive our cars, teach our kids, and fight our wars Smart machines will design, manage, and service 40% of all global businesses—energy, commerce, finance, and manufacturing—without humans Digital consumers who live always connected will challenge every business to change its strategy Climate change wars will redefine security and resources Most of us are not prepared to meet the challenges the future will bring, but these changes are coming fast. Armed with knowledge, those who are Future Smart can take action to reinvent themselves, their businesses, and their world.

Blue Mind

Author : Wallace J. Nichols
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316252077
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Blue Mind written by Wallace J. Nichols and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark book by marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols on the remarkable effects of water on our health and well-being. Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In BLUE MIND, Wallace J. Nichols revolutionizes how we think about these questions, revealing the remarkable truth about the benefits of being in, on, under, or simply near water. Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with compelling personal stories from top athletes, leading scientists, military veterans, and gifted artists, he shows how proximity to water can improve performance, increase calm, diminish anxiety, and increase professional success. BLUE MIND not only illustrates the crucial importance of our connection to water-it provides a paradigm shifting "blueprint" for a better life on this Blue Marble we call home.

Shadows Have Offended

Author : Cassandra Rose Clarke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982154187
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Shadows Have Offended written by Cassandra Rose Clarke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original novel based on the acclaimed Star Trek TV series! The USS Enterprise has been granted the simple but unavoidable honor of ferrying key guests to Betazed for a cultural ceremony. En route, sudden tragedy strikes a Federation science station on the isolated planet Kota, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard has no qualms sending William Riker, Data, and Chief Medical Officer Beverly Crusher to investigate. But what begins as routine assignments for the two parties soon descends into chaos: Picard, Worf, and Deanna Troi must grapple with a dangerous diplomatic crisis as historic artifacts are stolen in the middle of a high-profile ceremony…while nothing is as it seems on Kota. A mounting medical emergency coupled with the science station’s failing technology—and no hope of rescue—has Doctor Crusher racing against time to solve a disturbing mystery threatening the lives of all her colleagues…. ™, ®, & © 2021 CBS Studios, Inc. STAR TREK and related marks and logos are trademarks of CBS Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Mind Connection

Author : Joyce Meyer
Publisher : FaithWords
ISBN 13 : 1455517291
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Mind Connection written by Joyce Meyer and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joyce Meyer, #1 New York Times bestselling author, explores the power of positive thinking and the undeniable connection between the mind, mouth, moods, and attitudes. Thoughts can seem random and meaningless, but they impact your life every day. It's all connected. What you think affects your words, attitude, decisions, and emotions and influences how you relate to yourself, to other people, and to God. In THE MIND CONNECTION, Joyce Meyer expands on the wisdom of her bestselling books Battlefield of the Mind and Power Thoughts to explain how to improve the quality of your thoughts and your life. She explores the undeniable connection between the mind, mouth, moods, and attitudes, so that you can develop and maintain the right mental position--no matter what challenges you face. Through practical advice and Scriptural insights, Joyce will help you learn to think with purpose, gain greater confidence, and claim the fulfilling life you were meant to lead.

Visions of Technological Transcendence

Author : James A. Herrick
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 160235877X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Visions of Technological Transcendence written by James A. Herrick and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines key narratives animating the techno-progressive rhetoric of the human enhancement movement, arguing that enhancement and transhumanist discourse performs a variety of distinctly mythic functions. Principal among these is to cast a vision of a technological future involving enhanced posthumans, immortality, human merger with machines and space colonization.

The Architecture of Intelligence

Author : Derrick De Kerckhove
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783764364519
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Intelligence written by Derrick De Kerckhove and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A refreshingly unconventional look at architecture and the World Wide Web. Using Vitruvius' classical text De Arquitectura as a starting point, De Kerckhove begins a journey into the exciting world of the Internet. On the one hand he explores the architecture of this revolutionary medium, on the other, he considers the wide-ranging opportunities which the IT world offers for architectonic design, revealing how this new medium for communication is as much based on tradition as on innovation. Derrick de Kerckhove is the Director of the McLuhan Institute and Professor at the University of Toronto. His research into the effects of innovative technology on human communication, of new media on traditional culture have gained worldwide recognition.

Emergence

Author : Steven Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743218264
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Emergence written by Steven Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR AN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Explaining why the whole is sometimes smarter than the sum of its parts, Johnson presents surprising examples of feedback, self-organization, and adaptive learning. How does a lively neighborhood evolve out of a disconnected group of shopkeepers, bartenders, and real estate developers? How does a media event take on a life of its own? How will new software programs create an intelligent World Wide Web? In the coming years, the power of self-organization -- coupled with the connective technology of the Internet -- will usher in a revolution every bit as significant as the introduction of electricity. Provocative and engaging, Emergence puts you on the front lines of this exciting upheaval in science and thought.

The Human Capacity for Transformational Change

Author : Valerie A. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136263527
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The Human Capacity for Transformational Change written by Valerie A. Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pressures for transformational change have become a regular feature of most fields of human endeavour. Master-thinkers and visionaries alike have reframed existing divisions as connecting relationships, bringing together as dynamic systems the supposed opposites of parts and wholes, stability and change, individuals and society, and rational and creative thinking. This reframing of opposites as interconnected wholes has led to realisation of the power of a collective mind. This book offers ways and means of creating the synergies that are crucial in influencing a desired transformational change towards a just and sustainable future. It describes how and why our current decision-making on any complex issue is marked by clashes between the different interests involved. More optimistically, the book pursues a mode of thinking that brings together government, specialised and community interests at the local, regional and personal scales in a collective transformation process. Practical examples signal the emergence of a new knowledge tradition that promises to be as powerful as the scientific enlightenment. Written in accessible language, this book will be insightful reading for anyone struggling with transformational change, especially researchers, students and professionals in the fields of administration, governance, environmental management, international development, politics, public health, public law, sociology, and community development

Thrones: Little Black Book

Author : Adam Forrest
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1499052723
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Thrones: Little Black Book written by Adam Forrest and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initial Statement There are many paths that one can follow that will lead the seeker to where they need to be; whether it is expedited or a gradual incline to the apex, along the road of evolution. We all have choices; we all contain the schematics necessary to achieve that which we seek to be. Certain trials to the crucible awaits obstacles to overcome and what you are going to experience, if you commit with profound scrutinization, is a journey of a life time, that which will expand your intuitive, creative, and psychic abilities and lead you towards the Gates of Eden. Nevertheless, an ordinary Journal is out of the question and once you meet your guide, together, we will explore the Universe... You may proceed.