digital equivalent to the lab notebook I have had the best luck describing web logs as the digital equivalent to the lab notebook. Also ask why do the company give you that notebook and instruct you to record all your research and development in that book and not your own. Its because that is the way they manage their intellectual property. Web Logs are the digital or electronic equivalent of that same situation, and that is why every corporation will soon help their employees set up web logs for recording their work on research and development projects. Of course they will be behind the firewall but that is a way to capture and document what the company gets from their Knowledge workers.
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"The whole power of science is the power of shared ideas, not the power of hidden ideas"
Well said. Here's McGee's idea:
Setup each incoming Ph.D. or Master's candidate with a weblog at the beginning of their program. Coach them to use the weblog as a lab notebook of their developing intellectual capital. Use your own weblog to comment on their work and their thinking. Where do you think these students will be after several years of sustained and steady writing? How many will have already started to establish reputations as serious thinkers?
Substitute 'fourth grader' for 'Ph. D. candidate' and you have the beginnings of a real science program. Substitute 'portfolio' for 'lab notebook' and you have a revolution in the making. If you really wanted to make sure no child was left behind, then make sure they have a weblog at age eleven. | [Tellio] |
How I wish every ten-year old had a weblog. They see more clearly than most of us and routinely ask probing questions (when we let them). Indeed, growing a kids' weblog community is a project that would really interest me. I bet they'd get the hang of it faster than most adults.
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