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Re: serializing the facts



At 01:21 PM 8/21/00 +0800, Darwin Z. Palima wrote (off-list):
I would not characterize teaching
(and learning), not by blocks placed on top of each other, (what i
consider serial), where each new material increases the height without
increasing the base. Rather, I would opt to take the piling of sand by
pouring: the new material not only increases the height, but widens the
base also.

I agree with that completely. We are just using the word "learning" in a
different way.
-- Mr. Palima is using it to describe the _result_ of learning: the
multi-dimensional edifice of blocks.
-- I was using it to describe the _process_ of learning (and teaching):
the one-dimensional sequence in which the blocks are put into place.

Because of the high dimensionality of the edifice, choosing the
construction-sequence is never easy; two teachers who agree on the
architecture might disagree as to the sequence.