Hi Richard, I believe Khan Academy provides an excellent example of this type of integrated learning environment with much of the features as discussed by Danny Hillis in this talk. Of course, he seems to go a few steps further, talking of something like an open protocol to which an institution like Khan Academy would be but one node a student can hook up with, like a travel agent for packaged vacations. ^_^ ....personally, I'm more of a guy going places and discovering what's there, not much of a need or desire for all the packaging, be that learning or traveling.
I believe the greatest challenge in this networked knowledge approach is the question of whether and how to unify and consolidate all the different knowledge bits and their representation. Just as there are a bazillion things to learn, there are a bazillion different ways to go about learning supposedly the same thing, let alone representing that, not to mention the mountains of people and institutions working on achieving exacly that, each their own way. This rather visual map through which to navigte with colored places for all the things you've already managed to visit (and those you are about to) very well shows what's kinda missing in this traditional school environment... an approach where students have a way to look back and get a feel for how individual progress bars they can fill depending on their talents and interests rather than being forced up and down a supposedly unified class curriculum. Not sure if things like Common Core are all that helping. Maybe as a guide, an entry point, but not so much as the holy grail of what's out there to learn and how, especially seeing how some methods of teaching math in it seem to be mindblowingly ridiculous. Best wishes, Tobias. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
