Jay Cross on No More ‘Learners’

He says it’s time to drop the preacher-and-congregation paradigm of learning.

This is a big idea, although probably familiar to some (i.e., be a guide-on-the-side rather than a sage-on-the-stage).

But Jay takes it a step further.

What if we stopped calling them ‘learners’?

Maybe the term ‘learners’ encourages us to think of them as, you know, deficient.

I think Jay is — gently and thoughtfully — getting at that slightly snobby, snooty mindset of you-have-gaps-and-I-need-design-instruction-for-you.

In this age where everyone is continuously producing and foraging for information, we need more paradigms than that.

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