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Another possible Dadamac Learner January 8, 2011

A conversation in reply to Are you a Dadamac Learner?

David Pinto's reply is below (he intended to share it) NB Ref replies - Respond publicly by posting a comment on Dadamac's posterous or privately by emailing me


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i might be
pam
:)

but the last item throws me a little...
real life is a key part
the internet comes pretty low down so far...
for knowledge
good
but definitely secondary to tai chi, tango, GO, TRON, self-discipline dynamics in classes, social engagement, etc

does one get knighted? or some such :)

be well
david
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Hi David

I hope you decide that you are a Dadamac Learner. Ref "the last item" - the internet bit, which says:
  • A Dadamac Learner uses the internet as a key part of their personal "learning journey" (this can include using resources that are seen as "online learning"- but the networking aspect is more important)
Maybe I haven't explained that bit well enough. Dadamac is an online community - so the Internet is our "shared location". People in the Dadamac community - like John and me - could never have come together and collaborated before the existence of the Internet.  If you and I only met face to face and if we never used any of the Dadamac Internet "spaces" (like this one) to explore ideas, then I think you wouldn't be a Dadamac Learner, even though we do explore ideas together and I learn new things through our conversations. 

By the way - I completely agree with you about the joys of learning to do things that are not Internet based. (I did have online evidence to prove this belief in practice - last year when  Marina Kallatou  was helping me to learn Greek dancing  Phil Turner got his camera out - and he put a video clip on the archives of Franz's video bridge workshop January 2010.) Of course social engagement matters - but the Internet offers us opportunities for learning together with people  beyond out face-to-face network.

Pam