LEARNING!

      For homework we had to read a section of Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out and then get in groups the next day that read the same thing we did. I read the portion called Genres of Participation which was about learning through social participations from the community, social groups, and shared cultural systems. When I read about this I thought it was interesting but true. I think that in a lot of cases we do learn based on others around us and the social situations that we are put into. We especially learn from the culture that we are born into and tend to grow up to become like the people who we learn from. I thought that reading this section of the article helped me to realize just how much we actually learn based on our social participation. We wrote down on our sheet that kids are active participants and I would definitely agree with that statement. When you are first learning things and haven't developed your own ways you learn based on the people around you and what you see them doing and saying. When you get older though you have your own opinions based on what you learned from others when you were younger and whether you added to what you learned or completely ignored it, you still learned different opinions and ways of how to do something when you were a kid.

     I think that this article ties into our lesson pretty well because it sort of shows us where creativity stems from. It also relates to hte string games because we learned how to do the string games from the people around us that knew how to do it and the people around us could have learned a while ago from the people around them. All of which relates to the fact that we learn based on social participation.