The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
- scenario- or story-based learning - most of the learning is embedded in the context of a story
- the characters in the story and her relationship to them is very meaningful to her and drives a lot of her motivation early on
- in all the areas where Nell develops skill, an apprenticeship model is used (see one, do one, teach one)
- The dojo, dinosaur, etc
- she reflects back on these mentorship/apprenticeship experiences when considering which actions to take in the future
- this comports with how I carry around past coworkers in my brain, and imagine how they might handle situations in order to make decisions about the situation
- it's a form of play-acting - simulation - modeling the behavior of others
- This is Jesus's way of teaching - follow me
- On Miranda's humanity - the human ractors in the system, doing the voiceovers, strangely seems to drive a very different outcome for Nell than it does any of the other thousands of girls trained by the Primer (the mouse army)
- "Project-based learning" is not sufficient because it (often) lacks a context of use - the project is extracted from it's actual environment where all of the tacit knowledge exists about how to join the project into a real context.
- Therefore the project isn't often motivated by doing a real thing and lacks transferability to the real world
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