Reflected Learning, a definition


My basic naive model of the Net stood upon the idea of the ¨next step, the next phase¨. So my research task (self set) is to identify the ¨law¨ of next steps that make up the Net.

Later posts will clarify this issue but to cut the long story short my lense focused on the
nature of the unraveling next step associated with encoding knowledge. This was at a time
before web 2.0. This brought me near to the ideas of David Winer about Userland Radio and
technology advances such as RSS but did not quite grasped it. I was more comprehensive with the BEEP protocol proposal to IETF by Marshall T. Rose aimed to the application development community that I identified as the global net wide trend.

Anyhow this linked me to the idea of putting knowledge in the form of personnel digital paths onto the Net.

I had come to the conclusion that my various projects (always oriented towards discovering knowledge about the Net) with University students coming to the Lab to learn about the
Net (I was lucky to run one of the first infrastructures in Greece) had a bug. I gave to
them a lot (ie introduction to a new world) and what I got back, no matter how precious
could not be processed after their departure. A lot of knowledge was practical also and in any
case feeding it to the process associated with the next student along was only possible after
her time to depart had come. This meant slow progress in view of the ¨horizontal¨ holistic approach to Net understanding I pursued.

I figured that we needed to capture the learning path of Lab members and share it by a
mechanism such as local-team-slashdot server. The trail of a studentś postings along
with her mentor´s interactions was a more digestible learning material for the new comers
ready to be processed right away. I only needed to direct students to ¨meta learning¨ issues, summaries, long-term goals, reference models, history of developments.

This is the idea of the Shared Learning Path and I am testing it here more formally than my
initial attempt at ariadne-t.blogspot.com (greek) and meta-artificial.blogspot.com.