Symbiosis in LOs LO11142

Mnr AM de Lange (AMDELANGE@gold.up.ac.za)
Tue, 26 Nov 1996 15:18:23 GMT+2

Ian Saunders wrote in LO11125

> Like him I had to face up to how much I wanted to hold onto myself. It
> quickly became apparent, as it did to Robert, that if I am really
> interested in learning I must be willing to share ideas, models etc. By
> sharing we also begin to develop trust which I believe to be a good thing.
>
> What and how we share things electronically is, in my view, one of the
> interesting debates of this new communications media.

As I was reading your contribution, I got the gooseflesh. I am also a
chemist. As a chemist I already know that a most important feature of
chemistry is: the sharing of tiny electrons between much bigger atoms so
that molecular structures can emerge! (Biologists may think of it as the
mutual symbiosis of atoms.)

A lot has been said about quantum mechanics and the lessons it may have.
However, it is seldom said to the world outside of chemistry that quantum
mechanics made it possible to understand this sharing of tiny electrons.

Now Ian comes and says that the electronic sharing of information between
the members of an LO is an interesting debate. Who would dare to say that
it is a most important feature of LOs?

Best wishes

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At de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre for Education University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa email: amdelange@gold.up.ac.za

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