Brains working towards machine consciousness

Prof Steve Wheeler (@timbuckteeth on Twitter) was having a discussion using the #learning2020 tag earlier which I couldn't help but eavesdrop on. The bit which was interesting me was @bradbeach saying he'd never heard anyone say that their best learning experience was due to content or technology, but rather because of dialogue.

Mike Bogle (@mbogle on Twitter) has a great post on the change needed to support education in the future, which he drew my attention to after I Twittered "knowledge and learning are incarcerated in a monopolistic mould/mold which inhibits innovation and accentuates elitism. Discuss". I might argue it is change that was needed in the past, but I am guessing we can't achieve that now. I recommend Mike's post over this one. Mine is truly a rant, but sometimes a rant is needed...

First, my model of mind and (therefore) of learning - we are pattern matching creatures by dint of the way out brains work, and look for the similarities and differences between things. We also create models in our minds of what we perceive, which are, by definition, abstractions and simplifications of the 'objective reality'. Our perceptions are, I believe, affected by the internal models.