{"id":70,"date":"2013-04-17T12:59:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T11:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2013-04-17T13:01:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T12:01:51","slug":"rhizomatic-learning-in-theory-and-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/2013\/04\/17\/rhizomatic-learning-in-theory-and-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhizomatic learning &#8211; in theory and practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was convinced by rhizomatic learning &#8211; but selectively. \u00a0It is highly appropriate for those at the boundaries of understanding or expression &#8211; so university researchers, company strategists, experimental artists. \u00a0However, in the practical world, rhizomatic learning, and the behaviours resulting from it would be chaotic. \u00a0Imagine a company without processes (including ethical processes), a family without &#8216;house rules&#8217;, a country without laws. \u00a0Interactive chaos as a means of intellectual evolution is not a practical way of life &#8211; it would be rather like Lord of the Flies. \u00a0The most powerful forces tend to drive the agenda and they are rarely motivated by what is right for the majority.<\/p>\n<p>As in software, I think most people in practical society need some version control. \u00a0It is difficult to organise if everyone has a slightly different version of what is normal. \u00a0So let the researchers enjoy rhizomatic learning (including user input as some of the &#8216;nutrients&#8217; or &#8216;walls&#8217; for development) but, for the rest of us, let us learn through one curriculum at a time. \u00a0Connectivism means that the period between versions will be increasingly short but the plateaus of stability are as important for operational value as \u00a0the regular spurts of progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was convinced by rhizomatic learning &#8211; but selectively. \u00a0It is highly appropriate for those at the boundaries of understanding or expression &#8211; so university researchers, company strategists, experimental artists. \u00a0However, in the practical world, rhizomatic learning, and the behaviours resulting from it would be chaotic. \u00a0Imagine a company without processes (including ethical processes), a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h817open-2","tag-h817open"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}