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Comment author: JenniferRM 07 February 2011 07:26:10PM 21 points [-]

Detecting And Bridging Inferential Distance For Learners

Roughly: How to notice when someone has more levels of expertise than you do in some area and then effectively and ethically acquire their skills/wisdom/knowledge.

Comment author: SilasBarta 07 February 2011 07:40:27PM *  1 point [-]

Don't forget the problem from the other side, too: how to detect and bridge inferential distence for knowledge-havers, i.e., how to find the knowledge-gap and convey the information to them. (That was actually the long-delayed article I'm working on, given my success in teaching others and my difficulty in getting others to convey knowledge to me when the roles are reversed.)

EDIT: Nevermind, I didn't read the discussion before saying that.

(The use of the term "knowledge haver" rather than "teacher" was deliberate.)

Comment author: JenniferRM 08 February 2011 05:33:56PM 0 points [-]

For reference, I responded here to put the useful conversation in the right part of the tree.