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Are you a Tablet Agnostic, Atheist, or Evangelist?

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It's interesting Jon, you often see life as a form of swimming, I see it as a form of chess. You're a better swimmer/swimming teacher than I am a chess player. But do we need to see learnig life through a lens of some other activity?

Not sure what I'm trying to say here, but I'll say it anyway wink


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It is a valid comment, indeed one we have discussed (a paper by Sfard on use of metaphor). The danger is that a metaphor can skew how you deal with a problem. I could have used skiing or sailing anologies too. I like to visualise things so recently I've done images of concentric rings with satelitte like blobs and 'spheres' of influence regarding websites, blogs and social media. These are comprehensible to audiences when I present, but faced with other topics I have dripped ink into a glass tank of water to suggest how messages soon diffuse in cyberspace. Others do this with charts and figures. What is more persuasive though?

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But I worry that we eschew a metaphor at  a great cost. Fenyman himself always started there.

My other worry is that you are going to discuss your way out of me being different.

This is a tricky, tricky, impossable thing that you are doing, I'll try to help you by critisizing everything that you say or do. I can do no more wink

Be aware that you have support!!



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It sounds pretentious only because whilst embracing 'Activity Theory' I cannot always use the argument lucidly, but Engestrom (search through the blog) presents an idea of how people or communities/groups communicate and learn from each other; when too people start to agree with gushing enthusiasm I'd worry, something else is going on. It is the very act of coming from a different stance that we as individuals begin to form ideas that are in effect beyond our current understanding, and when these 'objects' of understanding collide fresh thinking for both parties occurs.