Further argument
Humans, and the social networks they create, are part of an ecology that encompasses other forms of life at different levels of biological organization. Technology, created by humans, becomes increasingly part of that ecology. It makes sense to extend the concept of learning ecology to include animal learning and machine learning in addition to human learning.
It is not surprising that at this time of rapid change we choose to ask the question What is the meaning of learning? By the middle of this century we may well be asking What is the meaning of being human? as our grandchildren develop the capabilities to create new intelligent species of biological, digital, and hybrid life-forms.
Jim Spohrer http://www:learndev.org/dl/DenverSpohrer.PDF
Humans, and the social networks they create, are part of an ecology that encompasses other forms of life at different levels of biological organization. Technology, created by humans, becomes increasingly part of that ecology. It makes sense to extend the concept of learning ecology to include animal learning and machine learning in addition to human learning.