I had planned to devote a couple of posts to interesting concepts from the book I chose to read for this class. Dirksen references a concept called 'Pace Layering' from Stewart Brand's "How Buildings Learn" in relation to how much content a person can learn in a course. Brand uses the house as a metaphor for the person, and the things inside the house as the information being obtained in class or learning course. For example, some content falls in the stuff category and changes daily- knowing the weather or planning a lunch for that day, similar to the way the stuff comes in and out of a room within a day. On the other end of the spectrum is the site layer which is much more difficult to change because it's the foundation of all of the other layers. This would include attitudes and beliefs of a person that take long amounts of time to change.
Applying this to my project for this semester, I recognize that most of the information falls within the moderate level of change for these volunteers. That being said, having this module makes a lot of sense only if paired with the on the job training that comes while they are actually taking on their roles.
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