Federated Education: New Directions in Digital Collaboration | Hapgood
An engaging introduction to Federated wiki. Published 2014-11-06.
Via Joel Chan.
Sputnik was launched in {1957}.
Q. What’s Mike Caulfield’s example of broken communication w.r.t. GPS?
A. USA launches GPS in the 1960, but Arthur C. Clarke had proposed it 15 years earlier (before Sputnik launched). The scientists working on GPS hadn’t read his proposal!
Q. What was Clarke’s reaction to the GPS inventors not being aware of his prior suggestion?
A. He’d thought the idea was obvious, not a special insight. So he hadn’t tried hard to publish it.
{unconscious competence}: {you don’t know the value of what you know} (Carol Goman, via Mike Caulfield)
The simplest explanation of federated wikis, according to Mike Caulfield: {You want the consensus engine, eventually. But you don’t want it at first.}