Infed Communities of Practice

This article was about various ways in which people are able to learn and comprehend information and how it is possible to work in groups to amplify the learning experience. Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger believed that through peripheral participation and situated learning a person is able to gain more not from books and structured information but through going out in a community and participating actively with others. They felt it was more important to go out into a larger scale community than it would be to work in a small area with just a few others. An interesting point that was made on this topic was how an alcoholic will learn much more about what he needs to do to solve his or her problem by attending Alcoholics Anonymous than he could learn through any book or source of information he may find on his own. Overall the main point of this topic was that people can learn more through activities and working in communities.
I felt this was a very interesting article as I was able to closely relate to it. I have always believed that no matter how smart you may be on a test or in an essay it really does not mean anything if you are not able to clearly communicate that information to another person through talking.