Internet of Sense

Why To Connect Everything With Everything

Organizations of Learning or Learning Organizations

Mark Van Doren's remark that:

The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to permit a vision of the world as simple, but if the educator does not aim at the vision no one else will, and the consequences are dire when no one does (p.19).

Bowden and Marton write of two other barriers to learning and the process of inquiry that emerge from the learning environment:

[W]hy do learners under certain circumstances focus on the sign instead of what it signifies, on the words rather than on the meaning and on the surface rather than on what the surface is the surface of? [Because in the institutional setting] learning ... is experienced as a demand, and living up to the demand of proving that one has learned becomes dominant in the learner's awareness. (p. 57)