modeling learning?

"Educators therefore face a different set of challenges. Very different. Their authority is in question since we've learned that we can learn more from talking with others than by listening to any single expert. But, more important, if knowledge emerges from conversations, then just about all our educational focus ought to be on learning how to be good conversationalists: how to listen, how to kindle a conversation, how to evaluate claims, how to speak in a voice worth hearing... and, most of all, how to share a world in which knowledge is plural, for that's what conversation – and knowledge – is about." From David Weinberger, "Knowledge in Transition: How access is changing the very Nature of Technology," in Interactive Educator, Autumn 2005 via Weblogg-ed Some thoughts today about conversations -- modeling conversations is what we were able to do in our podcasts and in our camtasia videos. And if teaching is more about modeling learning than about content delivery, and learning happens in conversations with many sources, then our podcasts and screencasts model learning in an important way...