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This leads to the pedagogical intention to build in failure into anticipated
learning processes making it a normal constituent which does not cause any
learner's fear.
But what does failure mean? How does the concept of failure depend on the
domain and, perhaps even more involved, on the way of teaching and learning?
In particular cases, students get a task and are asked to find some solution
meeting certain criteria of quality. Note that the pattern description in [42] is
not suciently clear to decide whether or not the following formalization meets
the authors' intention. In the wordy description of the pattern, there does occur
some sample about students making pottery (ibid., p. 25) in which no criteria
Fig. 4.
Storyboarding Formalizing the Pedagogical Pattern “Built-In Failure”
of quality or success are mentioned. Without criteria of success, the reasoning
process changes. The corresponding cutout of a storyboard results from the one
in figure 4 by simply eliminating one node. An illustration may be dropped here.
Fig. 5.
Storyboarding some Variant of “Built-In Failure” Without Criteria of Success
Because searching for some problem's solution without any criteria of success is
problematic, one is easily lead to another meme encapsulated as shown in fig. 5.
The cases discussed so far illustrate the appropriateness of building blocks
allowing for an easy replication, mutation, and cross-over as supported by the
current Webble Technology, for instance [35].
