Designed Learning?

Wenger states on page 229, "Learning cannot be designed: it can only be designed for - that is, facilitated or frustrated."How true this is! I have found as a teacher and curriculum developer both frustration with design and the freedom from design. As a teacher I designed some of my own curriculum and "used" curriculum that others had designed. I enjoyed the freedom of tailoring instruction to my particular students. Textbook curriculum fell far short of being designed for specific students. They always needed some level of modification. The freedom that I experienced designing learning activities for my students was indeed difficult but usually the most effective at stimulating learning. This point is closely related to Wenger's thoughts. Even though I was able to design learning activities tailored specifically to my students, that does not mean that the students would automatically learn. As a teacher I still had to enact the curriculum and constantly monitor and adjust it to promote student learning.