Ladders, Learning and Lessons from Charlie: exploring the potential of public click pedagogy

Abstract

Learning new material, developing new skills or making new discoveries can be complicated, lengthy and messy. Few of us go from inexperienced to skilled or novice to master in anything like a simple, tidy or routine manner. We often learn more from our mistakes than our successes. Yet, in efforts to 'teach' students various facts, skills or dispositions, formal education systems favor simplification of content and gloss the messiness of learning. Depending upon its complexity, what we are attempting to learn is often rendered into a simpler, tidier, approximate version, one deemed suitable for our current level of knowledge by those who have greater expertise in what is to be learned. Well intentioned rendering often goes hand in hand with overlooking the specific moves or means through which individuals actually come to learn things.