I have been digging more into the subject of informational cascades as I work on editing my submission to eLearn on “emergent learning” (which I’m going to refer to as social learning instead, given the current lack of agreement about what “emergent learning” means). The more I dig, the more excited I get. There’s some [...]
Kathleen reminds us that Steven Johnson himself supports her analogy of the Dean campaign as an example of emergent learning. “In fact”, she tells us, “Johnson was quoted in Wired magazine as saying that ‘Dean is a system running for President.’”
Except that, as far as I can tell, Johnson didn’t exactly say that–at least not [...]
Godfrey Parkin blogs:
In the E-literate blog, Michael Feldstein has recently had a couple of jabs at the burgeoning interest in emergent learning, as enthusiastically promoted by Jay Cross and others. I suspect that he’s overthinking it and just doesn’t get it.
If so, it wouldn’t be the first time. However, at the risk of compounding the [...]
This “active essay” put out by MIT’s medialab illustrates how emergence works. You can really see how the patterns form out of simple rules; maybe this is the best way to teach the concept. Note that the Java applets didn’t work properly on my Mac using Safari, though they seemed fine on Windows and Firefox.
I got an email this morning calling my attention to the existence of something called the “Emergent Learning Forum.” I don’t know this group and I don’t know what they mean by “emergent learning”; my previous posts on emergence were in response to articles that have appeared in eLearn and the echoes of them that [...]
