Jay Cross interviews John Seely Brown about the roots of informal learning
There’s a slight irony in that many non-specialists may find this discussion of the problems with abstraction in learning… a little abstract. But there is good stuff here, including the background to the Institute for Research on Learning, and what Jean Lave learnt from how people learn in Africa.
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Nowadays, my learning often arrived in giant “ah-ha” packages:
Friday’s encounter with JSB was one of those peak learning experiences.
Of all people, I’d lost sight of the fact that you can’t teach people abstractions. Give them the specifics; with the help of their friends, they will create memorable abstractions for themselves. And remember them.
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