{"id":1114,"date":"2008-11-27T12:45:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T12:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2014-03-06T13:31:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T18:31:19","slug":"addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of my cold-oatmeal attitudes toward Education and IT, I do continue to follow the doings of people whom I know to be On The Right Track, among whom I include Stephen Downes, Bryan Alexander, CogDog, GeekyMom, and Brian Lamb. The most recent posting at <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca\/brian\/archives\/049497.php\">Abject Learning<\/a> quotes Stephen Downes and is worth reading for itself, but it also echoes what I&#8217;m finding in John Thorne this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have written before &#8211;most specifically when recounting my wood-fired bread oven adventures&#8211; that I do not take instruction gladly. Push a book in my hand and tell me I just have to read it and chances are it will be a decade before I can bear to pick it up&#8230; <b>Facts only interest me when they are pieces to a puzzle I have already decided to assemble<\/b>, and I would rather find them after hours of rooting around in a junkyard than have them handed to me on a plate. (page 29, <b>Mouth Wide Open<\/b>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cooking, learning&#8230; pretty much the same Thing, innit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of my cold-oatmeal attitudes toward Education and IT, I do continue to follow the doings of people whom I know to be On The Right Track, among whom I include Stephen Downes, Bryan Alexander, CogDog, GeekyMom, and Brian Lamb. The most recent posting at Abject Learning quotes Stephen Downes and is worth reading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}