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Is Johnson's "Clustering Emergence" Really Small-world Network Formation?

I was thinking some more last night about Stephen Johnson’s new position that there are separate types of clustering and adaptive emergence as I was reading Albert-Laszlo Barabasi’s book Linked (which I am enjoying immensely, by the way; more on … Continue reading

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Yet Another Take on Emergence

This piece by Richard Seel (found by way of the Wrede article referenced in the previous post) is yet another version of emergent learning that seems to live roughly in the same neighborhood as Kathleen Gilroy’s and Godfrey Parkin’s (though … Continue reading

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What Steven Johnson Really Said About Howard Dean

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 … Continue reading

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Emergent Emergence

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 … Continue reading

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More Emergence Hoo-Ha

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 … Continue reading

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