Layered Learning: Some Thoughts about Information Funneling IMAGE: An abstract image of a sphere constrained by narrow bands. Satoru: (shaking his head) I don't see any 'layered learning' here. Melissa: (slowly scratching her cheek) Yeah. I just see layers of funky patterns. What should be 3-dimensional appears to be flattened out into some weird 2-dimensional plane. Tim: (nodding) Yep – that's what education often is: taking the life out of something & flattening it so that it can easily be displayed. ===================================================================================== from _Crassroom Voices - Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Education_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: An abstract image and dialog about informatic funneling KEYWORDS: cognitive scaffolding, heuristic simplification, information funneling Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) Begun: 2005 in Tokyo, Japan / Finished: 2020 in Shizuoka, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST http://www.tnewfields.info/CrassroomVoices/thanks2.htm TOC http://www.tnewfields.info/CrassroomVoices/index.html NEXT > http://www.tnewfields.info/CrassroomVoices/inflation.htm