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Informal Learning - Let's Get Real

I have a lot of stuff today, stuff I've been saving as well as some items I hunted down. Tomorrow I am presenting online at e/merge 2006 - Learning Landscapes in Southern Africa, and I have decided to offer my thoughts on how we can know E-Learning 2.0 will work, indeed, is working. The links today almost all apply to that question and will show up in my talk tomorrow.

Tony Karrer writes, "I'm becoming convinced that folks in the informal learning realm are quite willing to live with 'free range' learning. It's way too touchy-feely and abstract for me. If this stuff is important, then I want to:

  • Know that it will work
  • Know why it works
  • Know that it's repeatable."

He is reacting to George Siemens, who writes, "We have a rough end target (solve this problem, innovate, adapt, etc.)...and we really don't have a clear process (other than teams, meetings, and emerging collaborative spaces)." I don't think Siemens is right, really, but explaining why - and meeting Karrer's challenge - takes a bit of doing. More on this tomorrow. Tony Karrer, eLearning Technology, July 17, 2006. [Link] [Tags: , , ] [Previous][Next]

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Re: Informal Learning - Let's Get Real

Anymouse, July 17, 2006

"He is reacting to George Siemens, who writes, "We have a rough end target (solve this problem, innovate, adapt, etc.)...and we really don't have a clear process (other than teams, meetings, and emerging collaborative spaces)." I don't think Siemens is right, really, but explaining why - and meeting Karrer's challenge - takes a bit of doing". Why George isn't right is because networks need to remain flexible in order to adapt to changing environmental circumstance, one factor of which, within this environment, is learner requirement. If they don't retain that quality, they don't survive any better than the dinosaurs have, - salt water crocodiles are the only ones left, but only because they are true amphibians, - adaptable. When I say networks, I mean the nodes within them also. Many people seem to see nodes as separate entities within the network, but the nodes and the connection factors are intradependent. Some nodes survive, containing the essence of the chosen direction (e.g.,Lessig of CC), others disappear or transmute according to the requirement of the moment. The Cartesian viewpoint of a network as a sparate entity to the environment that it's situated within, is a statement of the, so far, failed history of the human animal. A human being is a node, composed of a mass of networks. How we interrelate with the other external networks that we are enmeshed within will determine our survival aspect, every bit as much as the dinosaurs. As a final note of doom, - we are not true amphibians. Weaver. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

Re: Informal Learning - Let's Get Real

Anymouse, July 18, 2006

I am sooo jealous. Give my love to Table Mountain! [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

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