One of my own personal theories of learning is that if you do a task reflectively you will learn it. Do it 10,000 times you will be an expert. The rest is access to the task. There is also the judgment aspect of this; when should you perform a task. A surgeon once told me that anyone could be trained to cut it is the judgment of when to cut that counts. A teacher may know the best questions to ask but if they don’t know when and how to ask them it doesn’t matter. Anyone can learn to drive a taxi but I once asked a taxi driver what he had to learn to become an expert taxi driver and he replied that the maps came easy, the addresses the basic driving. The hard part was the judgment the split decision to pick up someone or not. The risk of getting beat up and robbed is a real one in the taxi business. To me this is where interaction and situated learning come into play. This seems to be the only means to develop this judgment.
Judgment that can only be learned in the real context of the application and practice that enables fluent and accurate completion of the task.
Lucasw
