Comments on: “Bottom up” approach is better than a “top down” http://dontapscott.com/2010/02/23/bottom-up-approach-is-better-than-a-top-down/ A conversation about how the web is changing the world Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:15:27 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Emeri Gent [Em] http://dontapscott.com/2010/02/23/bottom-up-approach-is-better-than-a-top-down/comment-page-1/#comment-426 Emeri Gent [Em] Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:49:51 +0000 http://dontapscott.com/?p=5242#comment-426 Studies tend to take one to a certain place, but I prefer to look for places that people have not thought about studying (because one cannot study something unless it has emerged). The bottom up process fits a natural system of organic growth, but we have top-down systems in natural systems to, which form a closed loop - the weather is a good example of this "closed natural loop".<br><br>I also am of the persuasion that the technology is only as good as the thinking that inspires its application and use. That if we were of a predisposition, manner or way, that technology is still technology - to humanize "technology" and say it does this to us, or that to us is to fall into the pit of legacy thinking.<br><br>I like what is written here because there is an attempt to escape these legacies. Here technology has a trait that can be correlated to human beings, in that technology is weighed down by legacy systems and human beings are weighed down by legacy thinking.<br><br>While I am not against "studies", as a unit of one, as a blade of grass from the bottom up view, or a single rain drop from the top down view - I am willing to be a lab rat to my own explorations - explorations which via the osmosis of intelligence, turn technology into an extension of this absorbing relationship called "my learning".<br><br>Bottom up approach then is the quality of the human being rather than the quality of grass. The only problem I associate with the words "bottom up" and "top down" is that it pertains to the system in play rather than the human being in development.<br><br>All said, what I have read here is at the leading edge of proactive transformation, so I welcome each atom of change and there are plenty of thinking configurations realizable here. <br><br>I like to think of this thinking as the new power of diversity and I welcome having had the opportunity to think about things here as a unit of one, (what Frank Sinatra cites as "My Way"). I am open minded enough to know that I do not know, in the same way that all of us do not know, and therefore am more than willing to find out at the level of personal exploration.<br><br>This is simply that expression which all of us will get more and more attuned with as each new decade appears - that we are in charge of our own learning, and in that regard this is bottom up - though learning is total (so that is why I am not going to prescribe the word "better" in terms of relationship or as comparison to top down).<br><br><b>[Em]</b> Studies tend to take one to a certain place, but I prefer to look for places that people have not thought about studying (because one cannot study something unless it has emerged). The bottom up process fits a natural system of organic growth, but we have top-down systems in natural systems to, which form a closed loop – the weather is a good example of this “closed natural loop”.

I also am of the persuasion that the technology is only as good as the thinking that inspires its application and use. That if we were of a predisposition, manner or way, that technology is still technology – to humanize “technology” and say it does this to us, or that to us is to fall into the pit of legacy thinking.

I like what is written here because there is an attempt to escape these legacies. Here technology has a trait that can be correlated to human beings, in that technology is weighed down by legacy systems and human beings are weighed down by legacy thinking.

While I am not against “studies”, as a unit of one, as a blade of grass from the bottom up view, or a single rain drop from the top down view – I am willing to be a lab rat to my own explorations – explorations which via the osmosis of intelligence, turn technology into an extension of this absorbing relationship called “my learning”.

Bottom up approach then is the quality of the human being rather than the quality of grass. The only problem I associate with the words “bottom up” and “top down” is that it pertains to the system in play rather than the human being in development.

All said, what I have read here is at the leading edge of proactive transformation, so I welcome each atom of change and there are plenty of thinking configurations realizable here.

I like to think of this thinking as the new power of diversity and I welcome having had the opportunity to think about things here as a unit of one, (what Frank Sinatra cites as “My Way”). I am open minded enough to know that I do not know, in the same way that all of us do not know, and therefore am more than willing to find out at the level of personal exploration.

This is simply that expression which all of us will get more and more attuned with as each new decade appears – that we are in charge of our own learning, and in that regard this is bottom up – though learning is total (so that is why I am not going to prescribe the word “better” in terms of relationship or as comparison to top down).

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