Comments on: Darts and dimensions http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/1523?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=darts-and-dimensions Dave Ferguson's interests, ideas, notions, tangents Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:54:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dave http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/1523/comment-page-1#comment-12887 Dave Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:47:41 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/?p=1523#comment-12887 Janet, I think one of the frustrating aspects of self-directed / informal / ongoing learning is that it isn't neatly structured. USC professor Richard Clark said more than once that people with a lot of knowledge in a field tend to <i>like</i> highly organized learning, but that they actually learn better from less well-structured stuff. (One other implication: the way you think you like to learn is not the way you actually learn.) The SNA/SDLC example to me embodies that: I wanted to get the answer I needed, but it rarely appears with a label "The Answer You Need." I'm sorry we won't have a chance to meet. Janet, I think one of the frustrating aspects of self-directed / informal / ongoing learning is that it isn’t neatly structured. USC professor Richard Clark said more than once that people with a lot of knowledge in a field tend to like highly organized learning, but that they actually learn better from less well-structured stuff. (One other implication: the way you think you like to learn is not the way you actually learn.)

The SNA/SDLC example to me embodies that: I wanted to get the answer I needed, but it rarely appears with a label “The Answer You Need.”

I’m sorry we won’t have a chance to meet.

]]> By: Janet Clarey http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/1523/comment-page-1#comment-12886 Janet Clarey Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:31:36 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/?p=1523#comment-12886 "So I asked another guy." BTW...I'm not in DC. Will miss it. Andy is traveling and had it scheduled first...so have a Guinness for me. “So I asked another guy.” BTW…I’m not in DC. Will miss it. Andy is traveling and had it scheduled first…so have a Guinness for me.

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