[WikiEN-l] The WP Challenge: Healthy Collaboration

[MuZemike]

Which is one of the main reasons I (also slightly biased as per my 
background in education) am a huge advocate in public education. It's 
not just learning stuff (or having stuff "crammed into your head" a la 
"Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'"), but a critical part is also learning how to 
interact and socialize with other people who are not necessarily your 
family.

-MuZemike

On 1/18/2011 1:27 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
>> on 1/18/11 2:10 PM, Fred Bauder at fredbaud at fairpoint.net wrote:
>>
>>>> The importance to the individual of collaborating within a group. And
>>>> the
>>>> importance to the group in recognizing, and nurturing, the individual.
>>>>
>>>> From:
>>>> "Amy Chua Is a Wimp"
>>>> By DAVID BROOKS
>>>> Published: January 17, 2011
>>>> NYT
>>>>
>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/opinion/18brooks.html?nl=todaysheadlines&e
>>>> mc=tha212
>>>>
>>>> "Most people work in groups. We do this because groups are much more
>>>> efficient at solving problems than individuals (swimmers are often
>>>> motivated
>>>> to have their best times as part of relay teams, not in individual
>>>> events).
>>>> Moreover, the performance of a group does not correlate well with the
>>>> average I.Q. of the group or even with the I.Q.'s of the smartest
>>>> members.
>>>>
>>>> "Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Carnegie
>>>> Mellon have found that groups have a high collective intelligence when
>>>> members of a group are good at reading each others' emotions ‹ when
>>>> they
>>>> take turns speaking, when the inputs from each member are managed
>>>> fluidly,
>>>> when they detect each others' inclinations and strengths.
>>>>
>>>> "Participating in a well-functioning group is really hard. It requires
>>>> the
>>>> ability to trust people outside your kinship circle, read intonations
>>>> and
>>>> moods, understand how the psychological pieces each person brings to
>>>> the
>>>> room can and cannot fit together."
>>>>
>>>> This also presents to how "home schooling" can produce the
>>>> socially-challenged.
>>>>
>>>> Be healthy,
>>>>
>>>> Marc Riddell
>>>
>>> Heh,
>>>
>>> All backwards, her children, hungry for safe opportunities for social
>>> interaction, will be sitting at home editing Wikipedia most evenings.
>>> Nightclubbing and ski weekends is just not going to work for them. We
>>> can
>>> look forward to substantial contributions to math and music.
>>>
>>> Fred
>>>
>> And you consider Wikipedia, right now, to be a "safe opportunity for
>> social
>> interaction"!? Please take a closer, more-objective look, Fred.
>>
>> Marc
>
> Everything is relative, compared to a Rainbow Gathering Wikipedia is a
> piece of cake. We have more than our share of people without social
> skills, at least when they start editing. That is part of what the
> internet is about.
>
> Not that there are not people who will NOT be socialized; some notable
> Wikipedians fall into that category.
>
> Fred
>
>
>
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