As I explain on a page you can click to here, I chose the name “GoldenSwamp” as my home on the Internet because, to put it informally: the Internet is a swamp, and it is full of gold. I am convinced that education needs to understand and act upon the nature of the Internet - which is the theme of my blog. As several years have now passed since I made the choice of the GoldenSwamp name, both the swamp character and presence of gold have proven increasingly valid.
In a fascinating post by Stuart Henshall about a keynote speech by David Snowden, these ideas are elaborated. I will not attempt to reinterpret what is said in the post, except to give you these snippets. Think about gold in the swamps that are our brains and the Internet:
. . . Dave Snowden is really focused on how we do the sense-making. He says the human brain doesn’t make decision on the basis of a rational ordered process. People scan at most 2 to 8 percent of what they view and then the first patterns they see they lock into.
So if I go to extreme fragmentation and a loose adaptive contextual framework then I can create a more flexible adaptive system
This snippet explains why I am building the new learnodes.com blog:
The brains makes sense based on fragments.. Blogs are closer to the way our brains are supposed to work. Ergo! If you don’t have a blog strategy you don’t have a chance at a knowledge strategy. If you don’t have a knowledge strategy you don’t stand a chance of getting out of the cell you have constrained yourself to!
