All The Young (edu)Punks Jon K. – drunk on electrons

15Sep/090

Knowledge Metaphor

In the Elluminate session tonight Alec Couros suggested that his personal metaphor to knowledge that was: Knowledge is more like a river than a reservoir. I like that a lot, although as an aside, I thought to myself that knowledge is like a virus, you cough out an idea, and if someone likes it, it latches on to their system and mutates. As they think it changes... and spreads to a new host.

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