LEARNING THEORY how we learn?

Today's challenge is to incorporate technology into the learning process while retaining the best of the Wisdom teachers of the past. The great teachers used story and metaphor, interactive dialogue and the Socratic method of questioning.

The aim was to empower the individual from the inside out. "E-ducare: (Latin) to lead out from within." The best educators have also stressed that we learn by doing, by acting.

The world has changed from Descartes' proposition, "I think, therefore I am," to our current axiom "We participate, therefore we are." Meaning "When we participate, we discover who we are and that we belong."

For the non-traditional student who already brings much life experience and some wisdom to the classroom, this is a fitting guideline for both teacher and student, to put as much emphasis on participation as the transfer of knowledge from a textbook.

How is knowledge being applied in the business world? The world is now changing so fast that no one can keep up with it. What works today will probably not work tomorrow. Therefore Knowledge Management (KM) is a new focus for organizations and business. "The blend of KM and e-learning initiatives is on every CLO (Chief Learning Officer) agenda these days."

The challenge for organizational effectiveness is "instant sharing and flow of strategic information, or knowledge, seamlessly through all channels of the organization, ensuring a well-informed workforce that can react to the vagaries of the new economy." Website www.learningpost.com

It is not coincidental that one new definition of Ultimate Reality emerging from Quantum Physics and Quantum Theology is "Relational Aliveness." This suggests that when we are inside a personal "zone" or an attitude of "Relational Aliveness," we are already inside Ultimate Reality.

A theory or a philosophy of education then becomes a theology of education and even a spirituality for living. Interesting "razor's edge" thinking today.