{"id":1954,"date":"2012-01-15T10:44:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T17:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2012-01-15T10:44:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T17:44:45","slug":"the-rise-of-the-new-groupthink-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/01\/15\/the-rise-of-the-new-groupthink-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of the New Groupthink &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/15\/opinion\/sunday\/the-rise-of-the-new-groupthink.html?pagewanted=all\">The Rise of the New Groupthink &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve long suspected that many (if not most) people who insist on groupwork for everything do so because they can&#8217;t really produce anything on their own.<\/p>\n<p>Working in groups is great and necessary, but it really is important for people to be able to work alone too. When teaching a course, I usually try and make sure that students do both: work in groups AND work alone. Also, make sure they don&#8217;t always have the same people in their groups.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to assessing published works (non-fiction), watch out for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>authors who ALWAYS publish alone &#8211; it often implies they don&#8217;t play well with others (i.e. can&#8217;t get along with other people; don&#8217;t know how to share; unpleasant, dishonest or worse)<\/li>\n<li>authors who NEVER publish alone &#8211; this often implies that they can&#8217;t actually do anything (i.e. they are riding on the coattails of others)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-1954'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1954);\" title='Like' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'><b>2<\/b> people like this post.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1954);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(1954);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The Rise of the New Groupthink &#8211; NYTimes.com. I&#8217;ve long suspected that many (if not most) people who insist on groupwork for everything do so because they can&#8217;t really produce anything on their own. Working in groups is great and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/01\/15\/the-rise-of-the-new-groupthink-nytimes-com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[388,36,103],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-academia","tag-interdisciplinarity","tag-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-vw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":782,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/06\/07\/your-brain-on-computers-attached-to-technology-and-paying-a-price-nytimes-com\/","url_meta":{"origin":1954,"position":0},"title":"Your Brain on Computers &#8211; Attached to Technology and Paying a Price &#8211; NYTimes.com","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"June 7, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Your Brain on Computers - Attached to Technology and Paying a Price - NYTimes.com. I think everyone has a choice. \u00a0 One of the choices people are NOT making anymore is to spend time pondering. \u00a0 If you don't keep balance in your life, then various skills are lost. There\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computers&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computers","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/computers-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3447,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/05\/25\/where-ive-been-online-may-2013-part-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":1954,"position":1},"title":"Where I&#8217;ve Been Online (May 2013, part 1)","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"May 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a record of places I have bookmarked. (I also post them to Diigo, but since I don't like to leave stuff only in the cloud, I am also keeping a copy here. The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com tags: nytimes groupthink intelligence Solving the World -\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Games&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Games","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/games\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1034,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/08\/25\/your-brain-on-computers-overuse-of-digital-devices-may-lead-to-brain-fatigue-nytimes-com\/","url_meta":{"origin":1954,"position":2},"title":"Your Brain on Computers &#8211; Overuse of Digital Devices May Lead to Brain Fatigue &#8211; NYTimes.com","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"August 25, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, allow me to say, DUH! Your Brain on Computers - Overuse of Digital Devices May Lead to Brain Fatigue - NYTimes.com. This subject keeps coming up in the news. No surprise really. I've made a few comments here (on Cognitive Load Theory) and here (trying to fix education by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computers&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computers","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/computers-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"NYT article image","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/25brainspan-cnd-articleLarge.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/25brainspan-cnd-articleLarge.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/25brainspan-cnd-articleLarge.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1858,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/11\/07\/what-if-the-secret-to-success-is-failure-nytimes-com\/","url_meta":{"origin":1954,"position":3},"title":"What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? &#8211; NYTimes.com","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"November 7, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? - NYTimes.com. I've been saying this for years!!!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1626,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/03\/17\/doing-it-right-on-the-web-nytimes-com\/","url_meta":{"origin":1954,"position":4},"title":"Doing it Right on the Web &#8211; NYTimes.com","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"March 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I sometimes complain about how poor design is on the web:\u00a0 like here, and here so I would also like too point out places where they get it right. Every now and then I come across a site that makes me think, \"these guys know how to use this medium.\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2017,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/03\/12\/for-creators-of-video-games-a-faint-line-on-cloning-nytimes-com\/","url_meta":{"origin":1954,"position":5},"title":"For Creators of Video Games, a Faint Line on Cloning &#8211; NYTimes.com","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"March 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"For Creators of Video Games, a Faint Line on Cloning - NYTimes.com. Indie developers simply don't have the infrastructure to produce games in the same way that the big companies do. Yes, I know that the big companies all started off as little guys. So, when did they stop being\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Games&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Games","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/games\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}