02.08.05
Iterative Dialog
[Some thoughts last weekend…]
Iterative Dialog
The inevitable evolution of 21st century learning
Beyond print, beyond the television screen, there are concepts regarding educational communication that most media producers are now starting to grasp. We are breaking out of the stream-based, one-way messaging and language that drives yesterday’s educational materials, both low- and high-tech alike. The frame of reference of traditional materials is to provide pre-digested chucks of knowledge, hoping that students will be able to assemble these pieces, without further direction. Delivering these pieces has improved, and today we have a variety of platforms; print, audio, animation, even the web can provide this sort of experience.
But now, thanks to the growing amount of material that has been digitized and can be found though cooperating resources on the internet, we can begin to focus on Iterative Dialog as the standard for learning and exploration. ID takes the stream information that is provided to the student and gives them the tools to reflect that stream back to the source and peers that are sharing the experience. This reflection takes the one way stream and turns it into a loop, a loop which has amplifying properties. By providing truly iterative dialog structures, communication, formulation of ideas using raw knowledge become the primary means of learning and teaching.
Beyond the subject matter at hand, ID can provide a student with strong learning abilities, enabling them to grow their knowledge using their own inner tools, allowing them to rely on the parts of processing that they feel best suits themselves. In this way we work outside of the ridged structures of learning modes that have been recognized as barriers, and place the learning directly inside the mind itself.