Knowledge is Both a Source Of and a Barrier to Innovation

Abstract

Learning approaches have been dominated by a “transfer” view of knowledge that assumes that knowledge needs to be transferred from an expert to a novice. This has led to a focus on decimating and memorizing facts or WHAT knowledge. With this emphasis, HOW that knowledge is created and WHY is useful is seldom examined. To fully develop a new skill or perspective you have to comprehend the WHAT, HOW and the WHY of it. In this talk I will provide a relational framework to think about how learning happens outside of a traditional classroom setting to provide guidance on how we can improve the learning space or interface between an expert and a novice. So improving learning by adding to a transfer space a translation space and then a transformation space.