If we are espousing informal learning, does it mean we might redefine what "expert" means? Can it become a more horizontal and thus available construct? Practice?
Nancy White
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Thanks to you and Gunnar for the pictures. They help me put the elements into context. Or a system. or both! :-)
Coming back to this (I'm rereading entire threads as things have flown so fast, I'm a bit muddled)
what I sense is a signal that we have to pay attention to learning in a different way. Paying attention to the informal is clearly part of that. It jives with what you said earlier about learning not being a thing, but a way of being.
It is like my friend who has been studying the effects of culture in online learning. She says she is no longer using the word culture as a noun -- it is a way of being and at any one moment we take a snapshot and call it culture. Or something like that. I know I'm grossly misquoting her. :-)
what I sense is a signal that we have to pay attention to learning in a different way. Paying attention to the informal is clearly part of that. It jives with what you said earlier about learning not being a thing, but a way of being.
It is like my friend who has been studying the effects of culture in online learning. She says she is no longer using the word culture as a noun -- it is a way of being and at any one moment we take a snapshot and call it culture. Or something like that. I know I'm grossly misquoting her. :-)
Boundaries are useful things. They can proscribe limits or indicate the place to jump off and out. Is it the mindset towards the boundaries that count?
In practice, what would this look like. Do we enable boundaries that confine or ones that invite us to cross?
In practice, what would this look like. Do we enable boundaries that confine or ones that invite us to cross?
