Blog #4

     This chapter talks about knowledge and how to obtain it and use it in different ways, one of the methods on how to attain knowledge is through a learning community. In a community you can learn something, put what you learned into your work and then teach others and have a strategy to do whatever task there might be. Even if something is forgotten it can be relearned in your community and with relearning it you can figure out how to make whatever you're doing more efficient. For example I know how to code in Python but if I don't practice I'll eventually forget some of the syntax I need to use, learning Python again from a friend or a peer could introduce me to new strategies to use in my code and I will be able to apply that as well as what I already knew to another project I might be working on or give someone else another way to do something. 

    The chapter would then go on to talk about "Co-Learning" saying that it is nearly impossible to construct knowledge alone. Having someone to compare ideas with is super beneficial, even if they think in the same way you do they're bound to notice something that you didn't at first. Having a community of people is even better, the ideas that can be shared leave little to no room for missing something. This can even apply to someone that thinks completely differently than you, they are bound to notice something that you didn't and have a perspective that you might not have even thought existed. 

    Later they go into how classrooms were originally designed to put people into the workforce in factories, learning the bare minimum and making everything super structured and simple. In reality this is no way to learn anything, being dependent on someone else to know what you need to know in life will not lead you to independent thinking and success. Educators instead of being robotic in their classes should encourage conversation and new ideas in their students, teaching them to think for themselves and ask proper questions. This is not a way to learn everything but it is a way to deepen your understanding in subjects that may be more difficult, asking the necessary questions and getting the answers you needed.