> Your understanding of the topic is often completely limited to the way he frames it, and becomes quite useless when you leave that limited framing.
Completely limited?
My framing of human learning goes roughly like this:
1. When we are motivated to solve a particular problem, we can draw upon a multitude of “frames” (one example being metaphor, another being an equation, another being a visualization) to help us.
2. People sometimes cannot shift frames of reference effectively (i.e. perhaps fixating on only an few approaches). This is not the fault of the particular frame(s); this is a limitation in how people use them.
3. To our brains, almost everything is a “model” … a way of conceptualizing, deciding what to pay attention, what to ignore, what questions to ask, and when to recognize we aren’t getting anywhere.
4. Some models / metaphors are better than others for certain people and contexts.
- Some are better connected to other models, allowing more fluid thinking.
Completely limited?
My framing of human learning goes roughly like this:
1. When we are motivated to solve a particular problem, we can draw upon a multitude of “frames” (one example being metaphor, another being an equation, another being a visualization) to help us.
2. People sometimes cannot shift frames of reference effectively (i.e. perhaps fixating on only an few approaches). This is not the fault of the particular frame(s); this is a limitation in how people use them.
3. To our brains, almost everything is a “model” … a way of conceptualizing, deciding what to pay attention, what to ignore, what questions to ask, and when to recognize we aren’t getting anywhere.
4. Some models / metaphors are better than others for certain people and contexts.
- Some are better connected to other models, allowing more fluid thinking.
- Some are more rigorous.
- Some are simpler.
It depends on so many things.