On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Abd ulRahman Lomax <[email protected]> wrote:
> Back to the immediate topic, suppose there is a group of students who want > to learn math. Perhaps they can find a teacher, but suppose now that there > is no teacher. Suppose that everyone one of us is such a student, that there > are no experts. This, in fact, is the position of real scientists. The > "student/teacher" model is for children, and it doesn't necessarily work > well even there, and definitely not for deep education, where it's necessary > for the student to discover and build understanding out of their own > experience. Otherwise "education" becomes simply filling a data storage unit > with data, without understanding how to *create* the data (and understanding > its limitations). Skilled teachers will lead their students through this > process, not just expect them to be baby birds, mouths open to be filled > with the wisdom of the teacher. This is something that we talk a lot about on Yet One Other Website (peeragogy.org). I am sincerely interested to think about how wikiversity does or does not fit together with other efforts. It certainly can't be insular... _______________________________________________ Wikiversity-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l
