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Class Team Work

One has to love a good stock image… When PB4 was announced as a team-focused exercise, a fair amount of the lecture theatre either groaned or laughed nervously. However, after this week’s practical, I can honestly say that their fears were misguided. A quick scan of the room reveals a set of content groups humming…

Work Ethic – My response to Cal Newport’s Article

Work ethic. It’s all about ethic. Well, if success is what you’re after. This is something that I and a great deal of others hold to be self-evident. It is also an idea championed by Cal Newport in his celebrated blog series. Newport, an assistant professor of computer science, takes aim at the concept of…

Deep vs Hyper Attention

The question of the merit of deep vs hyper attention-span is a prickly one to confront. It is unpleasant because at some point it leads to a self-reflection of how efficient am I? It can be constructive in this sense, but nonetheless unpleasant. It is a question explored by N. Katherine Hayles in this article…