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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
Brett Miller adds to the conversation about workplace literacy by suggesting necessary competencies for a "knowledge worker" and three levels of work literacy: competent, literate, and mastery. The levels remind me of the work on situated cognition first discussed in Lave and Wenger's 1992 book Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. That is, when we become part of a group we usually start at the edges, and then move to a core position in the center of the group as we increase our competence in whatever the group is about. -GW

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