Comments on: Alternate ways of learning http://www.jarche.com/2008/02/alternate-ways-of-learning/ Life in Perpetual Beta Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:59:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jon Husband http://www.jarche.com/2008/02/alternate-ways-of-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-162980 Jon Husband Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:42:42 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=1451#comment-162980 Lovely stuff. Thanks for this story and the follow-on comments. Lovely stuff. Thanks for this story and the follow-on comments.

]]> By: Harold http://www.jarche.com/2008/02/alternate-ways-of-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-162950 Harold Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:20:50 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=1451#comment-162950 Diversity makes for more resilient ecosystems and it's what we should strive for in our education programmes. Diversity makes for more resilient ecosystems and it’s what we should strive for in our education programmes.

]]> By: Gilbert http://www.jarche.com/2008/02/alternate-ways-of-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-162741 Gilbert Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:33:22 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=1451#comment-162741 Glad that Stephen brings up the diversity perpective. Discussions about diversity and how to let it do its normal thing are probably more useful than discussions about curriculum and other physical concepts. Diversity seems to be fundamental to any ecosystem. Diversity like learning happens no matter what. What is important with diversity is to recognize its value early and not to mess around too much with the processes that causes it. Let nature do its thing. In the learning world diversity does not necessarily require that we learn different things. For example if we take a different path to get to the same results we will have diversity. GB Glad that Stephen brings up the diversity perpective. Discussions about diversity and how to let it do its normal thing are probably more useful than discussions about curriculum and other physical concepts.

Diversity seems to be fundamental to any ecosystem. Diversity like learning happens no matter what. What is important with diversity is to recognize its value early and not to mess around too much with the processes that causes it. Let nature do its thing.

In the learning world diversity does not necessarily require that we learn different things. For example if we take a different path to get to the same results we will have diversity.

GB

]]> By: Stephen Downes http://www.jarche.com/2008/02/alternate-ways-of-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-162725 Stephen Downes Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:23:12 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=1451#comment-162725 What's interesting is that his resulting learning will not in any particular way be better, but it will be different. And therein will lie its advantage. For myself, I became convinced of the impact of television as a learning medium when I discovered that there were distinct commonalities of thought I shared only with people who were, for some significant period in their lives, television-free. Our learning became, in a similar way, different. What’s interesting is that his resulting learning will not in any particular way be better, but it will be different. And therein will lie its advantage.

For myself, I became convinced of the impact of television as a learning medium when I discovered that there were distinct commonalities of thought I shared only with people who were, for some significant period in their lives, television-free. Our learning became, in a similar way, different.

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