Whilst procrastinating and exploring some ideas around [[Classroom orchestration|classroom orchestration]], I went down a rabbit-hole of [[Orchestration graphs|orchestration graphs]]. Whilst looking into [[FROG]] I wanted to understand more about the team who produced it. Here, one of the core figures was a postdoc at [[Pierre Dillenbourg|Pierre's]] lab. Taking a stroll through the internet I see that he was a power user of [[Roam research|roam research]] and even worked for them! He also had a [[Personal wiki|personal wiki]] at some point. Now he is doing some interesting work with AI-powered [[Knowledge management|knowledge management]] and facilitating collaboration, which I assume is in competition with tools like [[Notion]]. These similarities in interests are eerily close to consider it a coincidence. It seems more like a [[Convergence|convergent]] property... Perhaps there are some core shared underlying traits that converge to interest in orchestration and knowledge management? The more I grasp at a bigger picture of EdTech, the more I start feeling there is deep convergence - though it is really hard to articulate. One of the key convergences I feel is that of the division in academic educational technology of rationalism vs empiricism (though of course it is not such a hard divide). Here, empiricism relates to [[Learning analytics|learning analytics]], [[Educational data mining|educational data mining]] and generally training ML models. Though I don't find myself have such a disposition. Rather, I keep being drawn towards and finding beauty in rationalist approaches like [[Educational design language|educational design languages]] and [[Seymour Papert|Papert's]] notion of [[Constructionism|constructionism]]. Maybe it relates to a dislike of statistics and a liking towards pure mathematics in school? Hmm ...