Comments on: You can't tell people anything http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-anything/ Cyberspace. Virtual communities. Online games. Distributed systems. Opinion, history, advice, and silliness from two guys who've been building this stuff for a long, long time. Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:57:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Thomas Koch http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-anything/comment-page-1/#comment-568 Thomas Koch Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:14:09 +0000 http://brass.fudco.com/wordpress/?p=5#comment-568 Hi, I've the luck of having been educated as a teacher and ending up as a software developer. Therefor what you describe here makes perfect sense to me. It isn't possible to explain anything. First, explaining is such a misleading word. The process of knowledge transmission is rather a pull then a push operation. You as the knowledge sender can only do your best to setup the best possible situation for the receivers pull operation to succeed. Second, before any knowledge transmission could be possible, the receiver must have an appropriate cognitive network in place to connect the newly acquired to. Actually I think that any computer scientist or programmer should have a good knowledge of pedagogy... Thank you for your interesting posts and Elko! Hi,

I’ve the luck of having been educated as a teacher and ending up as a software developer. Therefor what you describe here makes perfect sense to me. It isn’t possible to explain anything.
First, explaining is such a misleading word. The process of knowledge transmission is rather a pull then a push operation. You as the knowledge sender can only do your best to setup the best possible situation for the receivers pull operation to succeed.
Second, before any knowledge transmission could be possible, the receiver must have an appropriate cognitive network in place to connect the newly acquired to.
Actually I think that any computer scientist or programmer should have a good knowledge of pedagogy…

Thank you for your interesting posts and Elko!

]]> By: Kevembuangga http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-anything/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Kevembuangga Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:49:57 +0000 http://brass.fudco.com/wordpress/?p=5#comment-117 <i>like trying to explain that meditation...</i> ha, <a href="http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2009/01/20/emotions-killing-your-intellectual-productivity/#comment-50576" rel="nofollow">Buddhist spam</a>, strange... like trying to explain that meditation…
ha, Buddhist spam, strange…

]]> By: gregorylent http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-anything/comment-page-1/#comment-116 gregorylent Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:38:53 +0000 http://brass.fudco.com/wordpress/?p=5#comment-116 ha, like trying to explain that meditation has value for the mind to a quantum physicist .. they would rather simply delete your comments .. ha, like trying to explain that meditation has value for the mind to a quantum physicist .. they would rather simply delete your comments ..

]]> By: Daniel Hepper http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-anything/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Daniel Hepper Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:09:50 +0000 http://brass.fudco.com/wordpress/?p=5#comment-115 So your core message is "Don't tell them, show them", right? That fits nicely with the "launch early, launch often" mantra (although that might not be feasible with every idea/project/product). So your core message is “Don’t tell them, show them”, right?
That fits nicely with the “launch early, launch often” mantra (although that might not be feasible with every idea/project/product).

]]> By: sharon boggon http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-anything/comment-page-1/#comment-114 sharon boggon Mon, 26 Apr 2004 23:41:00 +0000 http://brass.fudco.com/wordpress/?p=5#comment-114 Yes I agree until people use and/or make something it's very hard to explain what the possibilities are or might be.It is as if in thinking about the process in order to use/make something that the vision of the overall whole is glimpsed. Now that sounds a bit spiritual - I don't mean it that way - what I do want to say is that with any new way of working the possibilities of a particular way of doing things, seems to fall into to place when people try it out. I recently had this experience in an academic arena - trying to explain why blogs may be useful research tools. Yes I agree until people use and/or make something it’s very hard to explain what the possibilities are or might be.It is as if in thinking about the process in order to use/make something that the vision of the overall whole is glimpsed. Now that sounds a bit spiritual – I don’t mean it that way – what I do want to say is that with any new way of working the possibilities of a particular way of doing things, seems to fall into to place when people try it out. I recently had this experience in an academic arena – trying to explain why blogs may be useful research tools.

]]> By: Cory http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-anything/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Cory Fri, 23 Apr 2004 21:26:00 +0000 http://brass.fudco.com/wordpress/?p=5#comment-113 Great post! I totally know what you mean. You think you write it down or explain it in a way that makes perfect sense, but people never understand. Looking forward to more posts :) Great post! I totally know what you mean. You think you write it down or explain it in a way that makes perfect sense, but people never understand.
Looking forward to more posts :)

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