Extending credit feeder to additional currencies

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kirby urner

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Jun 3, 2017, 5:03:07 PM6/3/17
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Always in the back of my mind....


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Charles

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Jun 3, 2017, 7:10:52 PM6/3/17
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Stanislas Dehaene is a European researcher w.r.t. incentive based learning who was recommended we contact. 

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kirby urner

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Jun 4, 2017, 11:30:43 AM6/4/17
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On Saturday, June 3, 2017 at 4:10:52 PM UTC-7, Charles Cossé wrote:
Stanislas Dehaene is a European researcher w.r.t. incentive based learning who was recommended we contact. 


I agree we need to stir up discussions within the EU on all this.

More on math-teach:

 

Charles Cossé

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Jun 9, 2017, 2:18:33 AM6/9/17
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On Saturday, June 3, 2017 at 3:03:07 PM UTC-6, kirby urner wrote:

Although we haven't exhausted the potential of using internet access as an alternative currency yet,  the history of "disruptive initiatives that were successful" includes several that were only successful after re-packaging themselves to appeal to a new audience. 

To make it more accessible for users perhaps we should re-sell the assembled and tested R-Pi.   Otherwise a user would be rightfully skeptical about these components (R-Pi, SD card, Edimax antenna, power supply) that were procured separately, working together seamlessly out-of-their-boxes. 

Another mild form of re-packaging might be to solicit "product evaluators" from parenting groups. 

And then there's the click-bait approach:
  • Children were required to earn their internet access and look what happened ...
  • Just do these two weird things to make your kids read anything
  • Just try this weird trick to make your kids beg for math

Another type of user is University Researcher.  Always on the back of my mind is to answer the research question: Is the type of "caring" which occurs when kids earn their internet access sufficiently similar to the type of "caring" which is present when somebody is truly interested in something, and under which conditions learning thrives?   Or maybe a bit shorter!

kirby urner

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Jun 9, 2017, 9:38:43 AM6/9/17
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On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 11:18 PM, Charles Cossé <cco...@gmail.com> wrote:

<< SNIP >>


To make it more accessible for users perhaps we should re-sell the assembled and tested R-Pi.   Otherwise a user would be rightfully skeptical about these components (R-Pi, SD card, Edimax antenna, power supply) that were procured separately, working together seamlessly out-of-their-boxes. 

Another mild form of re-packaging might be to solicit "product evaluators" from parenting groups. 

Absolutely.  0.01% of US Americans have the skills and gumption to actually assemble the equipment from scratch, download the software from Github, and roll with that.  Of that 0.01%, only 1% have kids.  Made up stats.  Says more about how I imagine the world than about the world perhaps.

On the other hand, a sleek little box, like a router, that comes shrink-wrapped from Amazon or Egghead, ready to plug in and setup via some little http dashboard, might take off, sales-wise, but only with some commercial promotion.  People are lazy and want to get the pitch.  Show me, tell me, a story, to make me wanna buy.  We're trained that way.

Kirby


Charles

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Jun 9, 2017, 10:23:08 AM6/9/17
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This looks interesting:  The Pi Desktop
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