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And speaking of design, you'll notice that I already broadened the discussion, because it's not just persuasive technology that we're talking about here, it's any piece of design that we put out here in the world.
This motivated the students to keep going, and it also meant that everybody was working on the same thing at the same time, so if you went into a
discussion
forum, you could get an answer from a peer within minutes.
Of course, we couldn't have a classroom
discussion
with tens of thousands of students, so we encouraged and nurtured these online forums.
So let's look at what happens when you make a tool that anybody can just pick up and build something quickly, so one of the examples that I like to sort of kick off this
discussion
is this example of this cat feeder.
I belong to an Internet
discussion
forum, an African Internet
discussion
forum, and I asked them, I said, "Since 1960, we've had exactly 204 African heads of state, since 1960."
And they say in their
discussion
that this is very likely because freaks get published.
Now, I tell them, a paper has four different sections: an introduction, a methods, a results, a
discussion.
And the
discussion
is, who cares?
I'd like to put this kind of Friday night bar
discussion
aside and get you to actually step into the lab.
And we just shake hands, and have a coffee and a nice discussion, and we talk about food and basketball.
And so what this tells me is, when you look at the
discussion
of how to resolve our fiscal problems, we are not a nation that's powerfully divided on the major, major issue.
We're not open to a
discussion
of eliminating it.
And I remember watching the
discussion
on television and thinking how interesting it was that the separation of church and state was essentially drawing geographical boundaries throughout this country, between places where people believed in it and places where people didn't.
And then, that this
discussion
was drawing geographical boundaries around me.
And that got me into a
discussion
with some other people, other scientists, about maybe some other subjects, and one of the guys I talked to, who was a neuroscientist, said, "You know, I think there are a lot of solutions to the problems you brought up," and reminds me of Michael's talk yesterday and his mother saying you can't have a solution if you don't have a problem.
And what we want with these pictures is to create a
discussion
about what we have that is pristine on the planet and what we must hold on this planet if we want to live, to have some equilibrium in our life.
And a huge eruption of
discussion
around accessibility came, and we're really excited about that.
I think it's just that we have to think very deeply about the implications, ramifications of our actions, and so as long as we have good, deep
discussion
like we're having now, I think we can come to a very good solution as to why to do it.
Scaling up the
discussion
at the size of the planet, we see the same thing.
This is the cover of an extraordinary article published in Nature in 2009, which really launched the
discussion
about the phosphorus crisis.
I happen to be alive, end of
discussion.
Let's have a
discussion.
Who will get our
discussion
started?
What's emerged from this
discussion
is the following question: Will the cash incentive drive out or corrupt or crowd out the higher motivation, the intrinsic lesson that we hope to convey, which is to learn to love to learn and to read for their own sakes?
It's part of a
discussion
all of us should be having.
JB: Again, I think this responsibility is kind of up to all of us, that everything we do, everything we build, everything we make, needs to be made in a consensual
discussion
with everyone who's avoiding it; that we're not building systems intended to trick and surprise people into doing the right thing, but that they're actually involved in every step in educating them, because each of these systems is educational.
HW: James, it's such an important discussion, and I know many people here are really open and prepared to have it, so thanks for starting off our morning.
Double standards for men and women, sex as a source of shame, family control limiting individual choices, and a vast gulf between appearance and reality: what people are doing and what they're willing to admit to, and a general reluctance to move beyond private whispers to a serious and sustained public
discussion.
Now, in this
discussion
today, I'm going to focus on a different aspect of MOOCs.
We have to go to completely online grading and peer interaction and
discussion
boards.
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