Novices learn best through formal learning, for it provides the structure, signposts, and scaffolding a newby lacks. Old hands learn best informally, because they already have foundation knowledge, familiarity, and a framework for understanding. Jay Cross
I think that we learn best by having each of these threads in our hands knitting them both at the same time. So much of learning is guided which is followed by get-the-hell-out-of-the-way followed by guiding again and so on and so forth and doobie doobie doo. Now can someone explain to me why we put students through the infernal and seemingly eternal novitiate we call high school? Yeah, I know you know. It doesn’t have anything to do with learning and has everything to do with command and control. That’s why my three children have spent a grand total of less than a year in public learning institutions. (My youngest is in a private arts academy for dance that requires a morning of academic work, a compromise for her and us in order to get what she can’t get here for love or money—dancing every day)
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