A quick story from my world about “knowledge management,” or learning, synthesizing, and having information ready to use, when needed, as needed – often when the stakes are high.
Our son, Matt, is a high school sophomore. Lots is going on for high school sophomores – some visible, lots not.
Matt has a big biology test today. He’s been studying lots in the last few days – or so it seems.
Last night as he was getting to bed, I light-heartedly suggested, “Imagine that while you’re sleeping, all those facts that you learned and studied are quickly being arranged in your mind so that you can access them fully, at the right time, in the right way. ‘You want an essay on that? I can do it! You want short-answer with those facts? I can do that, too! You want true/false, multiple choice? I can do THAT, too!”
Matt listened and then had his own description of the facts, for him, about access to those facts.
“It’s more like I have a bag of facts and somebody cut a hole in the bottom, and they’re all falling out…and faster than I can pour them in the top!”
I had to laugh, in the moment.
He does have me thinking, though.
