Week 4:cck12

I work at Winnipeg Transit as a Bus Operator.  Becoming an operator, one must go through 6 weeks of training.  Initially, trainees are set up with a mentor (an employee with more then three years experience) prior to the start of training.  This forms an initial social connection amongst 1200 or so employees.  From this one connection, others will form quite rapadily.  The mentor is there to help the new employee to adjust both sociallly and within the criteria of  procedures.  I believe this is an example of the contructivist approach to learning.  The new employee learns and takes meaning through the experiences and ideas of the mentor.  Would this also be an example of connected knowledge?  Where, making that one initial connection, you are acccually connecting to everyone else who knows the mentor.  Creating a special node or click, if you will, amognst a larger more vast node.