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April 25, 2013 4:32 PM
Sugata Mitra has shared wise words about our false beliefs on how learning should be built on steps from simple to complicated. See his TED video about this. We as humans are context capable beings even if live in the woods:)
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Learning basic digital skills through use of a network is somewhat of a contradiction. Hence, I have commented on Siemens’s key principles in the context of this most fundamental learning in a networked world. In the developing world, the most basic of digital skills (keyboard, mouse, logging on etc.) have to be learned before more valuable skills (searching, publishing) can be developed.
A non-networked person will have been exposed to only a narrow range of opinions. Hence the acquisition of digital skills is an essential precursor to accessing a diversity of opinions. It is no surprise that repressive regimes limit access to diversity of information.
However, a more fundamental learning is that of understanding that such sources exist and how to find them.