Nielsen's posts tagged Science2.0

For a while now, Daily Clique member nielsen [his blog is here] has been bookmarking articles and blogs devoted to the Science 2.0 movement—basically, massively multicollaborator online problem solving. Here are some of his recent bookmarks tagged Science2.0:

Questions of procedure from Gowers’s Weblog: Timothy Gowers updates the rules to his massively collaborative mathematics experiment. He posted the first project for this experiment a few days ago and has already received 145 comments.

Williams Math/Stat blog: The blog of the Williams College mathematics and statistics department.

For communicating ideas in the mathematics and statistics communities, the common media have been conference talks and journal articles. Neither of these options provides the freedom given by a blog.

Snark Attack: UCLA Research Dissing Technology Bombs: Clay Burell smartly dismisses a study from the latest issue of Science, which claims “multi-tasking and the use of computers, the Internet, and video games” have led to declines in our critical thinking and analytic abilities.

Creating an opposition between “critical thinking” and “reading and discussing,” on the one hand, and electronic/social media on the other, is a logical false disjunctive (in plain talk, a false either/or). Any competent teacher can use the new literacy tools to create new possibilities in critical thinking, reading, discussing, and more, that were only dreamt of in pre-Internet philosophies.

Poincaré’s legacies: pages from year two of a mathematical blog
from Terry Tao’s blog: Tao announces a blog book based on all his mathematical posts from the past year.

E. Kowalski’s blog: I’ve never been good at math but I know a dedicated blogger when I see one.