Thursday, September 22, 2011

Who's an expert?

I wanted to make a quick post about a cool connection I made this evening.

When I got home from school, my housemate, Melissa, was making enchiladas for dinner group. She was running a bit short on time, so I suggested that she make enchilada casserole instead of rolling the individual enchiladas.

What does this have to do with anything??

I just made enchilada casserole for the first time last Sunday (with lots of guidance over the phone from my mom) and then here I was four days later showing Melissa how to do it! And I acted like an expert (which I had to, because compared to her, I was the expert)!

It reminded me of Dr. Burton's post about learning to crochet from an "expert" who had learned the day before.

The cool thing is that if I weren't taking this class, I don't think I would have thought twice about this process of suddenly becoming an expert through the process of sharing knowledge. It's exciting to recognize it happening in my everyday life!

Oh! As an extra tidbit: I don't use a recipe for the casserole my mom makes, but if you want to get an idea of how it's made, check out this link!


3 comments:

  1. I think it's interesting that we could make an enchilada casserole in many different ways and taste it in many different ways as well. It seems that learning and enjoying things are all different depending on the person and the experience.

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  2. It's really neat how you can take the flavors of one thing and condense it, like your example of enchiladas to enchilada casserole or my favorite-chile rellenos to chile relleno casserole. And it still tastes pretty good! But then sometimes they try to go to far. For example, red velvet cake yogurt? I don't see that as being much like the original at all.

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  3. That is really interesting - I like the idea that we become experts through teaching, rather than through learning ourselves. It makes sense to me - after all, you learn a whole lot more about something by teaching it than just observing it. Of course, you have to learn enough to teach it, first off.

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