Enjoyed this post. That we need to build a more robust and interconnected web of associations to more clearly understand and contribute to the challenges of our time seems understood by most. Whether or not the majority (or even a sizeable minority) of workers in our time are knowledge workers who associate some responsibility to a social learning contract of sorts is less clear to me. I do agree w/your basic premise here though that social learning is obviously all about contextual meaning making and the ecosystem that is our learning environment is much richer and meaningful when others are active and intentional participants. Any mobile phone bill translation consultants out there? lol...hard to believe these keep getting more difficult to understand.