Attendees

  • Tate - Poliical apathy - How do we get people engaged? Mincome.
  • Steve - Kickstarter for a kids book
  • Dan - in the field of UX
  • Farhan - Available already in the market - webpage annotations
  • Kris - getting students/interns for your projects
Minutes
  • Mincome -
    • How viable is it to require people to be active and engaged
    • Build a web app that is similar to a Canadian citizenship test
    • The questions themselves may be politized
    • Charter of Rights & Freedoms - Start with the original documents
    • fact checking search engine
    • Fact Checker Plugin
    • How do we handle people who are older and their jobs are gone, and they’re not motivated to learn something new
    • How to handle knowledge transfer amongst generations
    • Education is the biggest issue
      • It turned from wisdom to skill (all about making money)
      • Not about critical thinking any more
      • “Educated people don’t have horns” (You can’t tell by looking at him/her, but you can by listening to their reasoning)
      • People more eager to get paperwork to get a job than to learn things
      • Quest - All about reading to get a BA and then do a capstone project
        • Drop out rate is basically 0
      • SelfDesign - K-12
      • How do they handle socialization?
        • Smart kids will try to outsmart their peers
        • People not feeling smart will out toughen each other
    • Is there a social network that doesn’t keep you in your own echo chamber?
      • Kris: What are the alternatives?
      • Kris: How do you measure ego vs willingness to learn?
      • Active Listening
      • People’s perspectives don’t usually change until 3-4 meetings
      • Tate: Lawyers do this right: Ask as questions where you’re answering their answers
      • Tate: Online degenerates vs in person
      • Imagine an online forum where you had to wear a shoock collar to join it - force people to be reasonable
      • The data that turned the world upside down
    • Kris: How to combat online hate?
      • Force use of real identity
      • Certain threshold - until a certain point (people voted it out)
      • Is it a consequence of allowing free speech
        • It’s illgeal in Canada because you’re promoting harm to another
        • Farhan: Online courts
  • Kids books
  • Marqueed shutting down. Alts:
    • https://redpen.io/
    • https://www.cageapp.com/ * https://www.invisionapp.com
    • http://notableapp.com/
  • Webpage Annotations
    • Sources of information have changed dynamically and very fast
    • How do you incorporate all of that to one platform
    • Evernote
    • Turtl
    • Pocket
    • One Note
    • Browser plugin: detect if video - record at that part in the video, or in text would record where in the document you were when you clicked. Optionally use tags/categories
    • del.icio.us
    • Kris: pay for access to the coles notes wiki for any MOOC/course
    • Free University
    • Free MOOCs
    • UBC - teaches expertise is resaerching in their field
      • You’re learning by doing there – they’re not great at teaching
      • Not great for learning to learn
      • SFU doesn’t take IP, UBC does
      • Biospace.ca - Canada’s First Bio-Tech Community Lab
    • Raise enough money to pay for things for life - don’t touch the principle
    • What would it take to raise 100k for a principle fund
    • Kickstarter 1mm - Ideas Vancouver gets 100k
    • Awesome Shit Club