{"id":2674,"date":"2023-12-09T09:28:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T09:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2023-12-09T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T09:28:05","slug":"cake-mixing-metaphor-for-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/2023\/12\/cake-mixing-metaphor-for-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Cake-mixing metaphor for learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/2023\/09\/systemic-modelling-learning-curves\/\">Systemic Modelling<\/a> course I was on, we were coming up with metaphors for the learning we were doing.\u00a0 Mine was the stage of making a cake where you mix the flour in!<\/p>\n<p>If you add the flour all in one go, the mix tends to go lumpy.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, you sprinkle in a <em>little<\/em> bit of flour, and then you mix that until it&#8217;s smooth again.<\/p>\n<p>The mix is my ability to do the current lot of things.\u00a0 The flour is the new thing to try out.\u00a0 Not too much all at once!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About adding new stuff bit by bit, not all at once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphors","category-sysmod-clean-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions\/2675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}