Good article. Challenge is to find ways to build these learning communities and support them with knowledge and collaboration tools. I focus on helping youth living in poverty connect with mentors and tutors in non-school tutor/mentor programs. For such programs to be available in hundreds of locations in big cities like Chicago, donors, volunteers, political people, etc. as well as program organizers, tutors and mentors need to have a common source of information and be using it regularly to address the problems of making programs available, attracting youth and volunteer participation, and influencing aspirations and behaviors. This link points to one section of information that we make available for this learning. Research concept map http://tinyurl.com/TMC-research-map

At this point the number of people using resources like this is limited because most people don't know it exists, and those who are aware of it don't find the time to spend learning, reflecting and networking what they know with others.

If we can find ways to increase the numbers the ideas and benefits of networked learning and problem solving will become more apparent.