Re: Hierarchy of Learning Vs. What is Learned

["james hills" <jhills@sunflower.com>]

Dirk:
The hierarchy of learning you suggest relate to some work a mathematician
friend and I are working on.  Your "letters and digits, words and numbers,
sentences and formulas" echo our efforts, as educators, to help the learner
associate math with non-math subject matter.  Our purpose is continuously to
remind the learner the math he has already learned applies to other subjects
and to life, so that the qualitative and quantitative wolrds for him become
one.

The table would look something like this:

Qualitative                    Quantitative
   letters                            digits
   words                            numbers
   sentences                       formulas

Your suggestions help us in our efforts.  Thank you.
In terms of another hierarchy and one that resonates with Tribus and Webb,
Benjamin S. Bloom's cognitive taxonomy may be helpful to you.  Bloom's
cognitive taxonomy, you may recall, is a blue-ribbon contribution to
teaching and learning.

As for the difference between information and data, it may be helpful to
view information as data when it becomes part of the solution to a problem.

Thank you for contribution to our efforts.

Jim Hills