theorywatch

Another take on the idea of enabling “parasitic learning” (again, in the context of technology) by two of my favorite authors John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, who point out that Lave’s concept of “legitimate peripheral participation” may also function in this way. As the late Abbie Hoffman wrote, Steal This Book… but you have to care enough to want to, no matter how deliberately vulnerable to theft “the book” is made! (Come to think of it, this also works in a somewhat ironic juxtaposition with Freire’s “banking” concept of education, doesn’t it? Especially since lately so many people have been making “deposits” to my own “account”, intentionally or not….)