Interesting connection and I do think you are on to something here.

Makes me wonder about how our search strategies could (or perhaps even should?) change as we move along the continuum.

Or, alternatively, perhaps at the search level of things nothing changes at all, rather it is what proportion of the total objective is supported by search…i.e. at the start of this post finding that one reference is end (objective accomplished), whereas further along the continuum finding even a desired selection of content from various sources is STILL only the beginning of the total learning process.

BTW, I like your concept of blog as whiteboard. Good metaphor.

Ray

The connection for the tangent was a continuum that they saw, with behaviorist approaches working well at the specific, procedural end of performance (how to set up an online payment, say), and cognitive / constructivist approaches working better for more complex situations in which there’s no one correct way to respond.

Coing back to your post, I’d say that the first example is not learning at all, unless repetition causes the quick reference to sink in.

(Consider that you probably can’t remember the phone number of that person you couldn’t live without when you were 22…)