SWWRocBot: A quick review of "The Geometry of Learning and the Architecture of Knowledge"

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The Geodesic Mind is

The Geodesic/HyperArchical Geometry of
Learning and Architecture of Knowledge
Condensed from "The Geometry of Learning and the
Architecture of Knowledge", Nick Clark, 2001

Knowledge domains are hierarchically organized information one has adopted that create learning or living strategies. These are formally called Heterachies. In this theory they are called strategy strands, that are made up of these knowledge domains. Heterachies are comprised of hierarchically organized knowledge (different from hierarchically organized information). While having a common core or point of origination, i.e. a school, these heterarchies neither necessarily nor meaningfully relate to one another unless one creates a learning environment that demands a sort of cross-pollination, such as is found using the TW3K Learning Technology.

When a heterarchy reaches it's limit it is clear how nearly impossible it is for one strategy strand to connect with another, even though the contents of one strategy strand, the collected hierarchical knowledge that a heterarchy represents, might be useful in or with another. However, this not need be the case. Rather a magical process can kick in called Self-assembly. [This definition has greatly expanded since the term was first used and linked in the original online paper, 2001] This results in the immediate construction of a HyperArchy.

This same Self Assembly process continues with in the HyperArchy and works in a way reminiscent of wormholes (from the Cosmology of Space, Time and Learning, 2001.)

However, this HyperArchy is not the only one we have. We are always constructing these geodesic spheres of knowledge.

Like all good dynamic processes and systems, the same magical linking occurs among HyperArchies ...

However, this synergy among HyperArchies does not stop. In fact, the hypothesis of this theory of learning, the Geometry of Learning, posits that the Nth iteration of this process (death or the inability to learn and retain information) there is a huge, almost infinitly interconnected HyperArchy and the Architecture is the

Soccer Ball of Knowledge

Conclusion

School Without Walls' robotics class is being designed to enhance the opportunities to create these structures and enhance what R. Buckminster Fuller dubbed 'synergy'.

"SWWRocBot" will be an independent class with 12 to 15 students (more can be added). Using the TW3K learning environment, a variety of traditional subjects, even those being taken by students in the course of their studies, will have modules designed and matched with "corporate departments" as a way to optimize the opportunities for geodesic learning and bring new meanings to their experience.

PS This entire learning theory owes its construction to R. Buckminster Fuller.