Following up on the connectivist idea from yesterday comes this snipped:
If an individual has realized all potential connections, that would define the condition of “known.” If an individual has realized none of the potential connections, that would represent “unknown.” Someplace in between would represent the zone of proximal development, that is, a place where new knowledge could be linked in. For the purposes of the network representation, that would be “the edge.”
Distributed Representation.
One problem with my visualization is that it might be too literal, but I think it gives ZPD a kind of operational definition.