Just in time
I came across this post just now and it kinda got me thinking about ‘Just in time’ learning. I commented:
I am one that you talk about. A blogger with my favourite apps and that’s it. I’m not saying I don’t know 10, 20 people to turn to if I have a query outside ‘my zone’ but then those 10,20 people don’t know everything about everything either.
We live in a ‘just-in-time’ learning world.
As you can read on the post but my brain went on:
There are many people who argue that ‘Just-in-time’ learning to stupid, that there is a need to know stuff, their arguement goes something like this:
If I was flying in a plane that I would want to know that the pilot is trained and KNOWS how to fly and KNOWS the emergency proceedure and s/he is not just Googling as we taxi down the runway.
OR
If I were having surgery I’d expect the surgeon to be fully trained and not googling as he scrubs in.
To each of these I answer OBVIOUSLY!!!
But what about that pilot when he lands and goes home to cook dinner, is he to hold in his head the 6 complimentry spices that go with vension? Should he have learnt that in Food tech 20 years ago and be chastised for not remembering?
Or the surgeon, when she goes to download music for the dinner party, should we be critical of her for having to ask her 12 year old daughter while she sits at the keyboard?
My point, I guess, is that: Yes, of course there is a need for retained knowledge, but that is surrounding core activities in one’s life, work and the everyday/ every week. For everything else there is ‘Just-in-time’.
