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‘In a world that is not predictable, improvisation and innovation are more than desirable, they are essential.’ My reading of Wenger helped me understand the potential of the read/write web for fostering innovation.
“Metrics for such innovations are tricky, since social practices evolve slowly and surround us continuously, and thus become our frame of reference. It is not until we are abruptly forced to put them aside that we become aware of how much they have been shaping our lives.” (link) John Seely Brown,I think Wenger is about realistically providing an authentic environment where the natural processes of learning and innovation are augmented. Imagine if we made no space for innovation in learning. There would be only one answer, one way of learning. How much real learning would occur? On the other hand if we choose only to focus on innovation it would be difficult to know what was important to us, how we should start.
