Learning experiences are opportunistic. It is also low in constructivist elements. There is no clear evidence of support and cognitive scaffolding, nor is there a conscious effort to place learning in a real-world context. While it may seem, initially, that no proper learning could take place in this way, the truth is that most learning takes place in this way. A baby starting to talk chances on a sound that happens to get a certain result and upon repeating it, a consistency in response is discovered which reinforces the behaviour.
Feedback is encouraging and the behaviour is reinforced.
The child says whatever word it pleases, and is not consciously told that it should start with all words beginning with a . The learning environment needs not be supportive and encouraging, neither do scaffolds have to be provided. The little buzzing bug crawling on the child s finger does not build on any previous knowledge when it stings it. The chaos quadrant, therefore, is the domain of serendipitous and incidental learning. It accounts for experience rather than studying or training and corresponds with what is traditionally written about incidental learning and immersion or being thrown in at the deep end .