After reading Brian’s post about mycorrhizal networks I went digging around through some older papers and found this, an exploratory piece by my doc student Erin Brewer circa 2003. (Erin was my co-author on the Online Self-Organizing Social Systems paper.) As we examined biological models (like self-organization) to explain what we saw happening in informal online learning communities, mycorrhizal networks caught our attention. I’d forgotten about the topic until recent discussions in the ed tech blogosphere brought it back to memory…
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“Uncle!” I’m done.
Yesterday I (very briefly) argued for a networked view of both knowledge and learning that Stephen characterized as logical positivism. It was interesting to say the least. He quotes a portion of my writing, “The entire edifice of ‘complex learning’ is built on the foundation of ‘simple learning,’” and then makes what seems to me … Read more
Responding to Responders on Learning
Several of the disagreements with my recent post were with the (apparently low) threshold I set for learning. I continue to believe that if (1) I don’t know something, and (2) after engaging in some process I do know it, that (3) I have learned something. It doesn’t matter to me how insignificant the thing … Read more