無知と知の境界（不正確な部分的翻訳）
elearningpost経由、IT Learning at the Boundaries of Your Ignorance。
- 重要な問題：どのようにしたらもっとも生産的に学習ができるか。
- 著者の解答
- 学習が最大になる無知の境界がどこにあるかを理解しそれを利用するスキルを育てる
- to develop skill in mapping what we need to learn
- Two techniques can help identify and map a learning agenda at your boundary of ignorance:
- monitoring your curiosity and
- your conversations.
- Two techniques can help identify and map a learning agenda at your boundary of ignorance:
既知と未知の接するところが無知の境界である。
Inside the circle, we are comfortable with what we know, yet there is little opportunity to learn something new. Outside the circle, our lack of knowledge makes learning nearly impossible.
既知の中では知っていることに満足しているが、新しいことを学ぶ機会はほとんどない。未知の世界では、知識が欠落しているせいで学習することがほとんど不可能になる。
ゆえに、二つの領域では学習が生じない。
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does our boundary of ignorance. At that edge, we are most likely to find the best balance between a base of knowledge to work from and new territory worth exploring. It is at the edges of what we know where maximum learning can occur.
学習の円が拡張する（学習すれば既知の領域は増える）につれて，無知の境界も拡大する。その縁では、知識の基盤(work from?)と、探求する価値のある新しい領域との間の最善のバランスがもっともありそうだ。（すなわち）学習が最大になるのは，まさに知っていることの境目だ。
すると、以下のようなことが言える。
Learning how to recognize and use those edges is a key skill we need to develop to become more effective learners
端を理解し利用する方法を学ぶということが、もっと良い学習者になるためにのばす必要があるスキルである。
What piques your curiosity is an excellent indicator of where your learning energies ought to be focused. Curiosity is an edge phenomenon where new inputs have enough structure and content from your perspective to emerge as something more than background noise and chaos, yet are not so well-defined as to be immediately classifiable. Becoming more mindful of the terminology, issues, and phenomenon that are separating themselves from background noise helps identify topics you should consider investing learning time in.
Armed with a learning agenda, some portion of your conversations can now contribute to elaborating that agenda. From a learning perspective, your network of peers and contacts is now a resource for fleshing out your learning plans, helping to map your questions into resources and pointers that will start to develop answers to the questions you are now exploring.
we are expected to operate within the boundaries of what we know, while our changing environments demand that we simultaneously learn and push back those same boundaries. Both of those challenges are worthy of more explorations, but depend initially on having a workable explorer's map. Such a map is silent as to the details of exact roads and directions, as we are operating in unexplored territory. A series of questions to guide our explorations, however, is enough to connect us to what we do know and point us outward in the direction of new skills and knowledge.
