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Posted By Terry
I discovered Charles Nelson’s blog when he kindly commented on one of my student’s blogs. In the post I have linked to, he talks about learning theory, error, and flow. He looks to video games as a place where flow can be found, as well as lots of time on task, which is another predictor of success.
Today I am wondering if there is more than one kind of thing which constitutes “learning.” I find myself resistant to the education theories that try to boil down all learning into manageable, predictable patterns. When teaching someone to read, or teaching someone a foreign language, there is just a lot more “right and wrong” and I can see how error feedback is important. But when I am teaching composition theory and asking students to just consider different theories, how do I locate error? Is there a place in education for open-ended questions, for personal development, for big questions for which there are no answers?
Apr 30th, 2007
Good find! Thanks for passing it along. I think you know my answer to your question.
For open-ended stuff, the only real error is disengagement–which can manifest itself in many ways, of course.