Sublime

Piaget’s great insight was that knowledge is not delivered from teacher to learner; rather, children are constantly constructing knowledge through their everyday interactions with people and objects around them. Seymour’s constructionism theory adds a second type of construction, arguing that children construct knowledge most effectively when they

who take ownership and responsibility for their own learning

‘communities of practice’s to describe the kinds of social learning that such cultures require. Members of a community pursue a common interest and help each other as they do so. And as they work and solve problems together, so their learning habits and attitudes rub off on each other. New members watch carefully how the more established members ta

Henry Jenkins

rather than distorting our education system around learning to work with AI via prompt engineering, we need to focus on teaching students to be the humans in the loop, bringing their own expertise to bear on problems. We know how to teach expertise.

We want a platform where we can swim in curiosity, where we can feel like our contributions amount to more and more over time, where we are encouraged to seek out the most arcane pieces of information and to juxtapose those pieces of information with current events in order to re-orient ourselves.

Above all, we want to be able to  play  wi

Through the research undertaken by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger,10 we now have a much better understanding of not just the social elements of learning but also the way in which learning is situated in a particular context. How we learn on a sports field, in a science lab or in a drama studio is heavily influenced by the social situation and by the