bobjudeferrante

Bob Jude Ferrante is a software designer, entrepreneur, musician, composer, poet, teacher, and general troublemaker who thinks human beings are limitless. Or can be. But we have to prove it.

software: define, align, make it great & succeed

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Cereboom (n.): the 21st century way to manage your People Journey. Metrics Measure & manage culture, process, revenue, & success No intrusive surveys Great dashboards and easy to view reports Cereboom integrates with: your hiring markets (Indeed, LinkedIn, Monster, Hired, your ERPs (ServiceNow, SAP, Great Plains, MS Dynamics, Oracle) your people: Execs, HR, Managers, Staff your knowledge management systems your […]

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The Science of Decision Making | Stanford Online

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A publicly available course that seems tailor-made for neurojunkies… one of the profs co-chairs President Obama’s BRAIN initiative. Worth checking out! The Science of Decision Making | Stanford Online.

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The Power of Testing Memory: Basic Research and Implications for Educational Practice

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Study published by Henry L. Roediger III & Jeffrey D. Karpicke that provides grounding secondary compilation of a lot of research into the role of memory structures in training & teaching. http://pps.sagepub.com/content/1/3/181.abstract

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Harvard Grad School of Ed: Mind Brain & Education

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Harvard Graduate School of Education offers Mind, Brain, and Education degree concentration: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/masters/mbe

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U Illinois: Program melds teacher Ed w/CogSci

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University of Illinois College of Education has a program to train language teachers with a special focus on cognitive science. Cognitive Science of Teaching and Learning (CSTL) http://education.illinois.edu/edpsy/areasofstudy/cstl

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The rise and fall of cognitive skills | MIT News

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Apparently our brains don’t actually peak at age 20 and then begin a lifelong decline; the science is still out on this. Pretty exciting news for late bloomers. The rise and fall of cognitive skills | MIT News.

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brain science

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Here we’re talking about the latest studies, ideas, prizes, initiatives in brain science and cognition. This includes scientific studies and papers, articles, theories, findings, etc. The attempt here is to bring the latest news in this exciting area, and to provide a place to actively share on and comment on what’s happening, and to be brief

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solve your training problem with software

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I’m a software designer and manager of people by trade, and a trainer by necessity. I want to solve a problem we managers have. The Problem I hire new developers to work on our software products. My approach is “hire for talent, not skills.” E.g., I hire based on raw talent and engineering, without caring much about their “previous skills”

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i think i remember…

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a biased review of Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics winner Daniel Kahneman summarizes a life of research and publishing (often with his partner Amos Tversky). The pair wanted to understand why human behavior so often defies economic logic: We change the question to

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