Wirearchy » 2004 » December » 06 http://blog.wirearchy.com You know more than me, we know more than you, and wherever this all going, we're going there together. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:02:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 en Is This A Good Reason to Blog ? http://blog.wirearchy.com/2004/12/06/is-this-a-good-reason-to-blog/ http://blog.wirearchy.com/2004/12/06/is-this-a-good-reason-to-blog/#comments Tue, 07 Dec 2004 02:10:00 +0000 admin http://blog.wirearchy.com/2004/12/06/is-this-a-good-reason-to-blog/ Found on the Sift Experiment blog

At the World Future Society 2004 meeting, Edie Weiner, president of Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc. (a leading futurist consulting group in the United States) said we need to train intelligence instead of smartness:

Education today produces “smart” people rather than “intelligent” ones. Smart is the ability to learn a lot of stuff and repeat it back as needed. In the twenty-fist century, no one will pay for smart. Smart is being outsourced; it’s no longer a higher-level job. Intelligence is the ability to get from A to D with no B or C guidance; you’ve never seen it before … We need to learn how to be more intelligent – and we’re not doing that by making students compete for grades and get high scores on standardized tests. That’s making them smart when we need them to be intelligent.

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So how do you get from A to D without having seen it done before? Arguably part of challenge requires seeing things as they are, instead of how we assume them to be. But that means seeing things in the present, instead of through the lens of case studies or old technologies. How do we do that?

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