Kids today can tell you what sites are hot, what sites are passé and how different sites operate as different kinds of collectives. That’s because their evaluations are based on how their personal sense of identity and agency matches with the various collectives that constitute different spaces.

We call this style of learning inquiry. It creates a motivation to learn and provides a set of constraints that make the learning meaningful.

In a short book called The Tacit Dimension, he begins with a very simple premise: “We know more than we can tell.” What he describes is the tacit dimension of knowledge,

second difference is that the teaching-based approach focuses on teaching us about the world, while the new culture of learning focuses on learning through engagement within the world. Finally, in the teaching-based approach, students must prove that they have received the information transferred to them—that they quite literally “get it.” As we

From this perspective, therefore, the primary difference between the teaching-based approach to education and the learning–based approach is that in the first case the culture is the environment, while in the second case, the culture emerges from the environment—and grows along with it.

riddle. Games researcher Espen Aarseth describes the dynamic as one of aporia and epiphany. In both cases, whatever information one has is insufficient to reach a conclusion about meaning or knowledge. Play provides the opportunity to leap, experiment, fail, and continue to play with different outcomes—in other words to riddle one’s way through a

If the twentieth century was about creating a sense of stability to buttress against change and then trying to adapt to it, then the twenty-first century is about embracing change, not fighting it. Embracing change means looking forward to what will come next. It means viewing the future as a set of new possibilities, rather than something that

We learn those things by watching, doing, experimenting, and simply absorbing knowledge from the things, events, and activities around us.

Inquiry is an extremely powerful technique for learning because it produces stockpiles of experiences. Things that result in dead ends for one particular question may wind up being unexpectedly useful later on—even, perhaps, for a completely different question.