In this week’s #rhizo15 question, Dave Cormier asks if rhizomatic learning is an invasive species.
Depends
(This is inspired by Keith, btw.)
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Ahh … you are being more post-modern than I. I can appreciate that.
I hope somebody else says “maybe”, or something like that
I think Dave Cormier is guilty of extending this metaphor too far. The correspondences do not stretch–they break.
I think that I agree in the case of learning, but might feel differently when thinking about rhizomatic thinking – as I think that some thoughts can be invasive. I’m thinking, for example, about how some people can read a rant in a newspaper about terrorists, or immigrants, or any other scaremongering stuff and it infects the way they think about other things.
Our brains are networked, but are they rhizomatic?
Well, maybe there is no difference. I guess I was making a contrast with arborescent thinking, which is not (as) networked.
I think the most approriate response might be “Category error”
Or “Banana”?