Open communication networks > social based learning processes > creating knowledge

Fundamental ideas about how knowledge truly occurs; why delivery and storage of information should not be confused with knowledge; what’s the critical importance of communities of practice in helping learners “to be” real practitioners (e.g. a physicist, social scientist, historian, etc.) rather than people just knowing about such professions...all are essential concepts in a John Seely Brown’s article: "Learning in the Digital Age" [1].

I can’t find the original date from this paper, but I guess is about 6 years ago or so (!!). Therefore, here there are the underpinning ideas of what is now a hype new organizational field such as Knowledge Management and its linked strategies on e-Learning.

Seely Brown is enthusiastic about opportunities ICT brings about in changing education system from a very constructivist approach: learning as a situated action. He defines the features of digital learners, the way today kids learn to manage new contents and multimedia possibilities, and some pioneer directions observed in higher education.

Essential literature.

[Tag]Seely Brown: Learning in digital age