5 Mar 97
Chet Hedden

What is missing here is the recognition that you're addressing broad issues, not merely those connected specifically with "training." "TBT," I take it, are the initials for "technology-based training." However, most of the issues under discussion really concern the broader areas of instruction and learning. "Facts" and near transfer may be critical for training, but not for learning (or education, more broadly still). A training approach to instruction may properly exclude important cognitive skills like imagining, thinking, dreaming, reflecting, appreciating, and other qualities associated with content like history, philosophy, literature, drama, and the rest of the arts and humanities that define a culture--contexts where sharp distinctions between imaginary reality, "real" reality, and "virtual" reality may not be appropriate or even possible.