My new ebook, Cognitive Productivity, is now available for sale on Lean Pub. By purchasing this book, you get copies to read in ebook readers of your choice* or even in a PDF reader! You can read it on your computer, iPad, or other mobile device. Continue reading New Cognitive Productivity Book by Luc P. Beaudoin
Good Things to Come in 2013
The CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, mentioned at D11 last week that Apple’s “customers love surprises”. Our clients at CogZest have had the benefits of some of our products and a window into the future of cognitive productivity. However, coincidentally, CogZest has been rather coy on this web site about our own direction. Continue reading Good Things to Come in 2013
New Book in Peer Review Phase
Just a quick update on my new book which addresses the problems we face in using knowledge to become more effective. (Title to be revealed later.) Continue reading New Book in Peer Review Phase
What’s Your Problem?
Ph.D. students I meet for the first time are sometimes taken aback when I ask them with a smile “What’s your problem?” I then clarify, “What problem are you addressing in your research?” Even then, they are often still bemused. That’s because many research students think that their task is to research a “topic”. Later, they conclude that their job is to “answer a question”.
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Benefits of Learning in Depth for Kids and Adults
It is often said that “there are no quick fixes in Education”. Yes and no. There are no panaceas, quick or not. However, for many complex problems in many domains, there are some relatively simple but potent partial solutions. Vaccination is one example.
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The Tenacity of Paper
Since 2001, I have been specifying the problems we face in learning with technology. I have been developing products—knowledge, software and services—to the cognitive-productivity challenges we face. The first draft of my first book on the subject is written. I am not giving up…
This video, however, provides an original view of the tenacity of paper. It suggests that people will not ditch paper. However, I believe it also demonstrates that people will ditch paper after they have put it to good use.
Collaborative Productive Practice for Professional and Personal Development
At the Simon Fraser University (Education) Learning Together Conference May 17-18, 2013, I will present some of the ideas from my upcoming book on developing professionally and personally from knowledge resources using cognitive science and technology. By “knowledge resource”, I mean documents, podcasts, audiobooks, presentations and other learning materials. In keeping with the social theme of this conference, in my session, we will explore collaborative aspects of productive practice. The title of my talk is “Collaborative productive practice for professional and personal development: Socializing a new deliberate-practice framework.”
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Why So Quiet?
You might have noticed that the CogZest blog has been very quiet lately.
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Why Use Several OpenMeta Applications?
The main point of this blog post is that if you’re going to use the OpenMeta tagging framework for OS X, you should consider purchasing more than one OpenMeta app. They are not expensive. But first, I describe some of the benefits of tagging. Then I present and respond to criticisms of OpenMeta.
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Why Managing One’s Reading is Challenging
Managing one’s reading today is more challenging than ever. In order to capitalize on knowledge, we need to understand and resolve these challenges to our cognitive productivity. Here are some of them.