Thanks for your thoughts Phillip and Scott.
I wonder if encountering the world as it is rather than as it is modeled to be forces us to realize a wider spectrum of working strategies?
It occurred to me that maybe one of the affordances of the web is that is helps us to encounter the world as it is, much more than we've ever been able to in the past - and so we are having to realise a wider spectrum of working strategies - through cross-cultural/global discussions such as this.
I think it's more a case of determining why we become stuck in certain ways of doing things.
This directly relates to our work on emergent learning. Being stuck in certain ways of doing things is not going to be conducive to emergent learning. There must be so many context dependent reasons why people become stuck in certain ways of doing things, but one reason that we have discussed a lot is risk - How safe do people feel in the learning environment ? How safe is too safe? How risky is too risky? Responses will be individual - which make the design process all the more difficult. So ultimately we need to look at a whole variety of factors that can be balanced - which is what we have tried to do with the footprints of emergence.
Looking forward to discussing this further in the webinar tomorrow and over the coming week.