On 25/12/2013 5:47 AM, "Joe Corneli" <holtzermann17@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Abd ulRahman Lomax <abdlomax@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Back to the immediate topic, suppose there is a group of students who want
> to learn math. Perhaps they can find a teacher, but suppose now that there
> is no teacher. Suppose that everyone one of us is such a student, that there
> are no experts. This, in fact, is the position of real scientists. The
> "student/teacher" model is for children, and it doesn't necessarily work
> well even there, and definitely not for deep education, where it's necessary
> for the student to discover and build understanding out of their own
> experience. Otherwise "education" becomes simply filling a data storage unit
> with data, without understanding how to *create* the data (and understanding
> its limitations). Skilled teachers will lead their students through this
> process, not just expect them to be baby birds, mouths open to be filled
> with the wisdom of the teacher.

This is something that we talk a lot about on Yet One Other Website
(peeragogy.org).

I am sincerely interested to think about how wikiversity does or does
not fit together with other efforts.  It certainly can't be insular...

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