The Common Loon
This weblog about facilitating lifelong learning in a digital age is maintained by Shanta Rohse. I created it to support a graduate independent study course I am taking at Athabasca University's Centre for Distance Education in Winter 2005. You can find out more about me from my personal web site.
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Why the loon?
It's from an old reading blanket that's incubated many a lifelong learning project.
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What should we be lifelong learning about: my reading list
Some of the most interesting resources I've discovered address the critical question, what exactly should we be lifelong learning about? These include:
Thomas Homer-Dixon argues that we need different ways of learning - ways that let us come up with creative solutions to problems we have never seen before - to respond to the ways in which the world, and our lives, have become more complex. He calls this ingenuity, and the the critical gap between our need and our supply of ideas to solve complex problems the ingenuity gap.
Robert Sternberg and coauthors describe the concept of tacit knowledge - the knowledge that is not formally taught (and may not even be verbalized), but that we learn from our own experiences. It includes things like knowing what to say to whom, and when. Tacit knowledge is an indispensable element of expertise, and an important aspect of practical intelligence, without which we cannot survive in the world.
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