Great Minds on Learning: Recent Episodes
John Helmer
Internationally respected author, blogger and learning expert, Donald Clark joins John Helmer of the Learning Hack podcast to discuss the history of thought and theorising about learning. The inspired, the enduring, the wacked-out weird and the just plain wrong, from Aristotle to the present day. © John Helmer 2021
What education and workplace learning can take from sports coaching.
Modern sports coaching has abandoned the drilling of isolated techniques in favour of practice that is variable, contextual and informed by data. Opening Season 8, John Helmer and Donald Clark ask what education and workplace learning can learn from sport. From constraints-led practice and Moneyball analytics to AI tutors, coaching and performance support.
In this episode:
- Practice, Constraints and Variability
- Deliberate Practice and Autonomy
- Gadgets, AI and Analytics
- Scenarios, Simulations and Coaching
- Desirable Difficulty and the AI Tutor
- Multimodal Learning and Performance Support
Links and resources:
- Donald Clark — Learning Experience Design (second edition in preparation)
- Donald Clark — AI and Productivity (Kogan Page): https://www.koganpage.com/hr-learning-development/ai-and-productivity-9781398623316
- Nick Shackleton-Jones — How People Learn (Kogan Page)
- Jeff Jarvis — The Gutenberg Parenthesis
- Johan Huizinga — Homo Ludens (1938) — see also GMoL16, Gamification
- Michael Lewis — Moneyball (2003)
- Jabbr — boxing and combat sports analytics
- Jamestown Analytics — Tony Bloom's recruitment analytics company
- STUDI Blog post https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/ Website: https://studi.ie/ Books How to Win the Premier League: The Inside Story of Football's Data Revolution by Ian Graham AI for Sports by Chris Brady
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Recorded live at Online Educa Berlin, this episode of Great Minds on Learning explores AI and the Global South through history, hard lessons, and contemporary debate. John Helmer and Donald Clark examine early techno-utopian experiments, the ethics wars around AI, and newer perspectives rooted in language, power, and lived experience. From Negroponte and Mitra to Gebru, Arora, Manyika, and Mugane, the conversation asks who AI is really for—and who gets to decide.
Timestamps 00:57 – Intro
01:58 – Introduction to AI & the Global South
14:11 – Nicholas Negroponte
17:38 – Sugata Mitra
24:11 – Global South takes on AI
28:11 – Timnit Gebru
32:27 – Payal Arora
37:39 – James Manyika
43:12 – John Mugane
54:49 – Summing up
58:41 – Q&A
About the Show Great Minds on Learning explores 2,500 years of learning theory—from the Greeks to the geeks. Hosted by John Helmer and Donald Clark, the podcast connects historical ideas to today's debates in education, technology, and society.
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In this final episode before the summer break, Donald Clark and John Helmer explore the rise of happiness and wellbeing as central themes in psychology, education, and policy. From Seligman’s Positive Psychology to Nussbaum’s Capabilities Approach, they examine the thinkers who defined the science—and pseudo-science—of flourishing. Is wellbeing a universal human right, or a set of scantly-evidenced models that has somehow become an industry? And what happens when AI becomes your therapist?
⏱️ Timestamps
- 00:00:00 - Start
- 00:01:24 - Intro
- 00:02:25 - Introducing Wellbeing
- 00:09:07 - Martin Seligman (1942–) & Richard Layard (1934–)
- 00:21:47 - Ed Diener (1946–2021)
- 00:29:57 - Carol Ryff
- 00:41:22 - Corey Keyes
- 00:51:01 - Amartya Sen (1933–) & Martha Nussbaum (1947–)
- 00:58:37 - Lucy Foulkes
- 01:09:03 - Summing up
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Learning at Scale, from Theory to Action.
This episode explores the thinkers who shaped organizational learning—how institutions learn, adapt, and evolve. From Herbert Simon’s decision theory to Argyris and Schön’s double-loop learning, Peter Senge’s “learning organization,” Japanese knowledge creation, and Finnish activity theory, we trace how learning moved beyond individuals to become a strategic force for change. A must-listen for anyone in leadership, workplace learning, or change management.
Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 - Start
- 00:01:24 - Intro
- 00:02:23 - Introducing Organizational Learning
- 00:06:29 - Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001)
- 00:18:38 - Chris Argyris (1923–2013) & Donald Schön (1930–1997)
- 00:30:14 - Peter Senge (1947–)
- 00:43:17 - Ikujiro Nonaka (1935–2025) & Hirotaka Takeuchi (1946–)
- 00:57:01 - Yrjö Engeström (1948–)
- 01:07:20 - Summing up
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The surprising modernity of medieval minds.
This episode explores the medieval thinkers known as the Schoolmen—philosophers who fused logic, faith, and classical learning to shape what would become the modern university. From Anselm’s ontological argument to Ockham’s razor, Donald Clark and John Helmer examine the enduring legacy of scholasticism on how we teach and learn today.
Timestamp
- 00:01:24 - Intro
- 00:02:23 - Introducing The Schoolmen
- 00:07:27 - Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109)
- 00:14:53 - Peter Abelard (1079–1142)
- 00:28:02 - Hugh of St Victor (1096–1141)
- 00:38:41 - Albertus Magnus (c. 1200–1280)
- 00:44:02 - Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
- 00:50:15 - Duns Scotus (1266–1308)
- 00:59:54 - William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347)
- 01:05:32 - Summing up
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Who is higher education really serving? In this episode of Great Minds on Learning, John Helmer and Donald Clark examine prominent critics of higher education. Economist Bryan Caplan, linguist and activist Noam Chomsky, and tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel offer powerful critiques of the academy. Meanwhile, Harold Wilson, Jennie Lee, and Paul LeBlanc present alternative visions for more inclusive and effective systems. Is higher education broken—or just in need of reinvention?
TIMESTAMPS
· 00:00:00 - Start
· 00:01:54 - Intro
· 00:02:55 - Introducing Critics of Higher Education
· 00:07:19 - Bryan Caplan (1971–)
· 00:20:10 - Noam Chomsky (1928–)
· 00:31:41 - Peter Thiel (1967–)
· 00:44:06 - Harold Wilson (1916-1995) & Jennie Lee (1904-1988)
· 00:57:11 - Paul LeBlanc
· 01:06:15 - Summing up
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Education's Ideological Battleground. Education is never entirely neutral. In our own time it has been increasingly seen as deeply ideological. However, whose ideology is being promoted – and does unpicking one set of biases only serve to replace it with a different, opposing set? Donald Clark and John Helmer explore the provocative ideas of influential theorists Paulo Freire, Allan Bloom, Henry Giroux, Judith Butler, Camille Paglia, and Jonathan Haidt. This episode dives into critical pedagogy’s role in shaping today’s contentious educational culture wars, examining how these thinkers challenged traditional perspectives, ignited fierce debates, and reshaped our understanding of education's relationship to power, politics, and identity.
Episode timestamps:
- 00:01:54 – GMoL intro
- 00:03:00 – Introducing Critical Pedagogues
- 00:07:37 – Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
- 00:18:23 – Allan Bloom (1930-1992)
- 00:34:06 – Henry Giroux (1943–)
- 00:43:21 – Judith Butler (1956–)
- 00:59:48 – Camille Paglia (1947–)
- 01:14:41 – Jonathan Haidt (1963–)
- 01:35:15 – Summing up
Contact:
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- Website: learninghackpodcast.com
The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html Contact Donald
- X: @DonaldClark
- Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/
From Babbage to Turing: the roots of AI.
In this first episode of Season 7, Donald Clark and John Helmer trace the roots of modern computing and AI through six foundational figures—Babbage, Lovelace, Hollerith, Bush, Newman & Flowers, and Turing. Exploring their machines, insights, and visionary ideas, they uncover surprising links between early data technologies and the digital learning landscape of today. Expect Steampunk vibes, deep dives, and a speculative look at how history shaped learning innovation.
- 00:01:54 - Intro
- 00:02:58 - Donald & John catch up - Donald’s new tattoo
- 00:05:42 - Introducing Roots of AI: Early Computing
- 00:13:41 - Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
- 00:24:14 - Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)
- 00:36:31 - Herman Hollerith (1860-1929)
- 00:50:43 - Vannevar Bush (1890 - 1974)
- 01:02:50 - Maxwell Newman (1897-1984) & Thomas Flowers (1905-1988)
- 01:10:25 - Alan Turing (1912-1954)
- 01:28:20 - Summing up
Great Minds on Learning comes from the Learning Hack team and is produced by John Helmer. The podcast is based on a series of blog posts written by Donald Clark, who kindly collaborates on this project.
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- Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/
Revisiting Learning Theories: Insights and Challenges for the Future
In this special live episode of Great Minds on Learning, recorded at Online Educa Berlin 2024, Donald Clark and John Helmer tackle listener questions about learning theory’s relevance, biases, and practical applications. They reflect on three years of the podcast, exploring 2,500 years of educational thought, and discuss the future of learning, including the transformative impact of AI. Engaging and insightful, this episode is a must-listen for learning professionals and enthusiasts alike.
- 00:00 - Start
- 00:59 - Introducing GMoL Question Time
- 08:17 - Why this podcast?
- 30:52 - What are the ‘lessons learned’?
- 47:48 - What next? AI and the future of institutional learning
The Blog that started it all:
- https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html
Contact Donald
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Send in your questions for the Great Minds on Learning Q&A! Donald Clark and John Helmer will answer them at Online Educa Conference in Berlin, which will be recorded for a podcast episode to be issued before Christmas 2024. Email them in to john@learninghackpodcast.com or reach out on social media.
Deconstructing Continental Philosophy's Impact on Modern Education.
At the end of the 19th Century, a split in Philosophy emerged that persists today. The Analytic tradition, led by Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein, emphasized clarity, logical rigour, and formal methods in language analysis. By contrast, Continental theorists such as Husserl and Heidegger went to a very different place. They focused on human experience and took on broader cultural and political themes, giving us terms like existentialism, structuralism, post-structuralism, and postmodernism. In this final episode of the season, we explore the impact of Continental Theorists. What influence have these radical thinkers, whose writings often seem almost wilfully obscure, had on education and learning?
- 00:00:00 - Start
- 00:00:46 - Intro
- 00:01:59 - Introducing the Continental Theorists
- 00:09:01 - Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
- 00:24:28 - Paul-Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
- 00:41:11 - Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998)
- 00:52:42 - Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
- 01:09:54 - Summing up
The Blog that started it all:
- https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html
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Learning in the post-Freudian age
At the beginning of the 20th Century, fundamental assumptions about the nature of the mind and how it learns were completely overturned by a new set of ideas. Pre-eminent among the thinkers and practitioners who spearheaded a new field of study called psychoanalysis was the Austrian neurologist, Sigmund Freud. Following his death in 1939, Freud’s followers continued and developed his ideas, and psychoanalysis grew ever more influential, not just in the treatment of mental illness, but in government, business, philosophy and education. Though most of Freud’s theories have since been discredited, he casts a long shadow. But what do the psychoanalysts have to say to our own time about the mind and learning?
- 00:00:00 - Intro
- 00:01:11 - Introducing the psychoanalysts
- 00:06:33 - Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1923)
- 00:25:33 - Anna Freud (1895-1982)
- 00:36:17 - Melanie Klein (1882-1960)
- 00:43:53 - Eric Erikson (1902 – 1994)
- 00:57:55 - John Bowlby (1907-1990)
- 01:05:14 - Carl Rogers (1902 - 1987)
- 01:10:41 - Summing Up
The Blog that started it all:
- https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html
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Is the mind flatter than we thought?
This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the ‘Performance Journey Goes Dutch’ conference in Ermelo, The Netherlands, organised by Xpertise Learning. Donald and John explore a group of theorists who are giving us a new picture of how we think and learn that is distinctively different from what came before. They’re the Connectionists, and they see the brain as flatter than was previously thought, constantly trying to predict what will happen next, and to improvise a response. But what are the implications for learning of this New Psychology?
- 00:00 - Intro
- 00:58 - Introducing The Connectionists
- 11:15 - Daniel Dennett (1942 - 2024)
- 19:15 - Geoffrey Hinton (1947–)
- 24:38 - Nick Chater (1965–)
- 35:17 - Karl Friston (1959–)
- 39:19 - Joshua Brett Tenenbaum (1972–)
- 43:49 - Andy Clark (1957–)
- 46:54 - Summing Up
The Blog that started it all:
- https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html
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Is the mind flatter than we thought?
This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the ‘Performance Journey Goes Dutch’ conference in Ermelo, The Netherlands, organised by Xpertise Learning. Donald and John explore a group of theorists who are giving us a new picture of how we think and learn that is distinctively different from what came before. They’re the Connectionists, and they see the brain as flatter than was previously thought, constantly trying to predict what will happen next, and to improvise a response. But what are the implications for learning of this New Psychology?
- 00:00 - Intro
- 00:58 - Introducing The Connectionists
- 11:15 - Daniel Dennett (1942 - 2024)
- 19:15 - Geoffrey Hinton (1947–)
- 24:38 - Nick Chater (1965–)
- 35:17 - Karl Friston (1959–)
- 39:19 - Joshua Brett Tenenbaum (1972–)
- 43:49 - Andy Clark (1957–)
- 46:54 - Summing Up
The Blog that started it all:
- https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html
Contact Donald
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Second of a two-part series on the invention of writing and the impact of literacy on learning.
Last time, Donald and John discussed how writing was invented in the ancient world. This time the focus moves to the 20th Century, and thinkers such as Walter Ong and Eric Havelock who revived interest in the pre-literate world of oral culture. Their work raised themes that were to become ever more resonant with the rise of the internet and AI.
- 00:00:00 - Intro
- 00:00:56 - Introducing Literacy & Orality
- 00:09:15 - Walter J. Ong (1912-2023)
- 00:22:44 - Eric Alfred Havelock (1903-1988)
- 00:33:08 - Jack Goody (1919–2015) & Ian Watt (1917–1999)
- 00:42:10 - Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
- 00:59:04 - Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
- 01:13:14 - Clay Shirky (1964–)
- 01:27:39 - Summing up
The Blog that started it all:
- https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html
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First of a two-part series on the invention of writing and the impact of literacy on learning.
Our ability to learn from written texts is something we take for granted. But like every other technology that humans use, writing had to be invented. Notational signs used next to images of animals are seen in cave paintings from as early as 35,000 BCE. Actual writing is first recorded in Uruk (modern day Iraq), at the end of the 4th millennium BCE, but seems to have been independently invented in at least three other places; Egypt, China and Mesoamerica. It proved a pivotal moment in human history, marking the transition from prehistory to the historical record. In the centuries that followed, writing was to become central to learning. But the earliest uses to which it was put might be very different to what you would expect.
- 00:00:00 - Intro
- 00:01:06 - Introducing Scribes: The Invention of Writing
- 00:08:11 - Sumerians & Babylonians
- 00:23:09 - Egyptians
- 00:33:27 - Three Egyptian Scribes
- 00:51:39 - Chinese
- 01:01:18 - Summing up
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Theories and critiques of leadership learning: the attribution problem and its consequences.
This episode, the first of a new season, our sixth, focuses on leadership. Leadership, thought since ancient times to be critical to the destiny of nations, has long been a feature of military training and elite education. But its arrival as a staple of workplace training was relatively recent. Donald and John explore the work of the thinkers who, from the middle of the Twentieth Century onwards, developed theories and critiques of leadership learning.
- 00:00:00 - Intro
- 00:00:56 - Introducing Leadership
- 00:09:26 - James MacGregor Burns (1918-2014)
- 00:17:09 - Peter Drucker (1909-2005)
- 00:25:58 - Paul Hersey (1931-2012) & Ken Blanchard
- 00:36:19 - John Paul Kotter (1947–)
- 00:49:00 - Henry Mintzberg (1939–)
- 00:54:28 - Barbara Kellerman
- 01:10:07 - Jeffrey Pfeffer (1946–)
- 01:19:38 - Summing up
The Blog that started it all:
- https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html
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John and Donald preview the upcoming season of Great Mind on Learning.
The sixth season of Great Minds on Learning begins on Monday 15th April 2024. Ahead of the first episode, John and Donald preview the treats in store!
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The theory behind generative AI as a transformational tool for learning.
This episode, the last in the current season, was recorded at the Online Educa conference in Berlin and focuses on Generative AI. Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the learning world has been mesmerized by the potential benefits and dangers of this new form of AI. Unlike other forms, it can be accessed by non-technical people, in natural language conversations. Donald and John explore its roots in neuro-biological research, as well as the learning theory underpinning Donald's belief that it is potentially the most powerful technology invented so far for learning.
00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:00 - Introducing Generative AI 00:11:30 - Dialogue & Conversation 00:24:59 - Language & Learning 00:37:33 - Interface 00:51:31 - Engagement & Personalization 00:54:36 - Delivery of Learning 01:01:00 - Q&A
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We don't need no education?
This episode explores the transformative ideas of three influential late 20th-century educational theorists. Each began with a flourishing career in teaching but ultimately left the classroom behind, driven by a growing disenchantment with the educational system. Their collective experiences culminated in an incisive critique of conventional schooling, sparking calls in some quarters for comprehensive educational reform. But compelling as their arguments were, did they achieve any enduring impact on the landscape of education?
- 00:00:00 - Intro
- 00:01:02 - Introducing Critics of Schools
- 00:09:09 - Ivan Illich (1926-2002)
- 00:28:47 - John Taylor Gatto (1935-2018)
- 00:42:59 - John Holt (1923-1985)
- 01:00:08 - Summing up
The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html
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- Gatto bit.ly/34zStPx
- Holt bit.ly/3zzkHrp
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The pioneers of alternative education systems.
This episode covers a group of 20th Century thinkers and educationalists in both Northern and Southern hemispheres who developed a variety of alternative visions for schools. Inspired by enlightenment figures like Rousseau, and the German Idealists who came after them, they nevertheless reacted against the strict and regimented so-called ‘Prussian’ system of education that had become the mainstream. They incorporated ideas from the burgeoning field of psychology, and also, in the case of Rudolph Steiner, a strong element of mysticism.
00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:56 - Introducing Schools 00:11:30 - Rudolph Steiner (1861-1925) 00:28:48 - Maria Montessori (1870-1952) 00:47:08 - Alexander Sutherland Neill (1883 – 1973) 01:00:50 - Vicky Colbert (1948/9 –) 01:13:44 - Martin Burt (1957 –) 01:20:39 - Summing up
The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html Montessori bit.ly/38s6CiM Steiner bit.ly/2uMqkaj Neill bit.ly/2SSEv5A Colbert bit.ly/2wgY4wO Burt bit.ly/39FAHLU Contact Donald X: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/ Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/ Contact John Helmer X: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: https://learninghackpodcast.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LearningHack/
Marxism and education.
This episode examines the impact on learning of a thinker, Karl Marx, who had a revolutionary effect on the world in general. In the name of Marx and his collaborator Engels, politicians of the 20th Century created regimes that were utopian in some cases, highly repressive and even murderous in others. Meanwhile, the heirs to Marx’s intellectual tradition fleshed out Marxism as a rich and powerful explanatory system. And though controversial to this day, Marxist thought has had an enduring effect on learning and education.
00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:57 - Introducing The Marxists 00:05:28 - Karl Marx (1818-1883) 00:18:16 - Antonio Francesco Gramsci (1891-1937) 00:27:14 - Louis Pierre Althusser (1918-1990) 00:47:00 - Jürgen Habermas (1929 - ) 01:00:02 - Paulo Regius Neves Freire (1921-97) 01:09:38 - Summing up
The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html Marx bit.ly/315AxKF Gramsci bit.ly/2REFkj6 Althusser bit.ly/2UihsUe Habermas bit.ly/46TpxAS Freire bit.ly/496gQF1 Contact Donald X: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/ Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/
Marxism and education.
This episode examines the impact on learning of a thinker, Karl Marx, who had a revolutionary effect on the world in general. In the name of Marx and his collaborator Engels, politicians of the 20th Century created regimes that were utopian in some cases, highly repressive and even murderous in others. Meanwhile, the heirs to Marx’s intellectual tradition fleshed out Marxism as a rich and powerful explanatory system. And though controversial to this day, Marxist thought has had an enduring effect on learning and education.
00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:57 - Introducing The Marxists 00:05:28 - Karl Marx (1818-1883) 00:18:16 - Antonio Francesco Gramsci (1891-1937) 00:27:14 - Louis Pierre Althusser (1918-1990) 00:47:00 - Jürgen Habermas (1929 - ) 01:00:02 - Paulo Regius Neves Freire (1921-97) 01:09:38 - Summing up
The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html Marx bit.ly/315AxKF Gramsci bit.ly/2REFkj6 Althusser bit.ly/2UihsUe Habermas bit.ly/46TpxAS Freire bit.ly/496gQF1 Contact Donald X: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/ Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/
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Marxism and education.
This episode examines the impact on learning of a thinker, Karl Marx, who had a revolutionary effect on the world in general. In the name of Marx and his collaborator Engels, politicians of the 20th Century created regimes that were utopian in some cases, highly repressive and even murderous in others. Meanwhile, the heirs to Marx’s intellectual tradition fleshed out Marxism as a rich and powerful explanatory system. And though controversial to this day, Marxist thought has had an enduring effect on learning and education.
How German philosophy created the modern education system. Why is education the way it is? Why does the bell ring to signal the end of a lesson? Who invented teacher training? Why do universities combine teaching with research? It might surprise you to learn that the answers to these questions can be found in the writings of early 19th Century German philosophers. This episode looks at the German Idealists, a group including Kant and Hegel, inspired by the Enlightenment and the spirit of Romanticism following the French Revolution, who set the mould for the education systems of today. * 00:00 - Intro * 00:58 - Introducing the German Idealists * 05:59 - Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) * 18:45 - Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776 - 1841) * 26:29 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 – 1831) * 45:20 - Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1825) * 57:34 - Summing up
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In this episode, the first of a new season, we look at a group of thinkers who have focused on how we should evaluate the impact of the learning. Beginning with Donald L Kirkpatrick in the 1950s, they have given us models of how to measure and evaluate it. However, for all the work that has gone into this area, the general perception has long been that organisations simply do not evaluate anything like enough. There are indications, however, that this picture is changing, and interest in evaluation is on the up. With the advent of powerful new AI tools, could we be on the brink of a breakthrough? * 00:00:00 - Intro * 00:00:55 - Introducing Evaluation * 00:13:52 - Donald L. Kirkpatrick (1924 – 2014) * 00:25:12 - Robert O. Brinkerhoff * 00:34:59 - Will Thalheimer * 00:50:54 - Valerie Anderson * 01:02:47 - Summing up
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The Internet and the World Wide Web have revolutionised the way knowledge is produced, mediated and consumed. This episode focuses on a group of entrepreneurs who have given us the online tools and platforms that now dominate global learning. Some of them also happen to be world-leading tech brands: Google, YouTube ... and the new kid on the block, OpenAI. The episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the Next Learning Conference in the Netherlands. * 01:24 Introduction to Internet as Knowledge * 07:06 Larry Page (1973–) & Sergey Brin (1973–) * 15:16 Chad Hurley (1977–) & Steven Chen (1978–) * 25:37 Jimmy Wales (1966–) * 33:01 Sal Khan (1976–) * 38:45 Luis von Ahn (1978–) * 45:28 Sam Altman (1985–) * 55:54 Summing Up
The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html * Page & Brin bit.ly/39B26hA * Chen & Hurley bit.ly/348ZOVV * Wales bit.ly/34at66s * Khan https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/04/khan-khan-academy-free-world-class.html * Luis von Ahn bit.ly/3hst7uw * Altman https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/search?q=altman
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Many thanks to Sam van der Schans, Toon Brouwers and all at Next Learning Conference for their help with the audio recording. Also to Callum Clark for video assistance.
During the Covid lockdowns of recent years, online technology became practically the only way of delivering learning. But a long road has brought us to such a place. This episode covers the theorists, inventors and entrepreneurs who pioneered technology delivery of learning, beginning in the early years of the 20th century with the mechanical teaching devices of Sidney Pressey and B. F. Skinner. * Introducing Technology Delivery – 1:20 * Sidney L. Pressey (1888-1979) & B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) – 6:12 * Sir Tim Berners-Lee (1955–) – 19:44 * Bill Gates (1955–) – 32:43 * Steve Jobs (1955-2011) – 45:12 * Martin Dougiamas (1969–) – 56:10 * Summing Up – 1:05:28
The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html * Pressey & Skinner bit.ly/3pf3L7Y * Berners-Lee bit.ly/2wE9Cep * Gates bit.ly/2WS3hXj * Jobs bit.ly/3bFx8Go * Dougiamas bit.ly/2UXOJTq
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Social constructivism had its origins in the thought of Karl Marx. However, it became a strong influence on educationalists in the capitalist West during the latter half of the 20th Century, and thinkers such as Piaget and Vygotsky are popular on teacher training courses to this day. But does its central tenet, that learning is socially constructed rather than individually discovered, hold up under scrutiny? * Introducing Social Constructivism – 1:24 * Jean Piaget (1896-1980) – 6:44 * Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) – 19:22 * Jerome Bruner (1915-2016) – 33:12 * Margaret Donaldson (1926-2020) – 41:56 * Merlin Wittrock (1931 - 2007) – 52:22 * Summing Up – 1:04:57
The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html * Piaget bit.ly/2vRLT9J * Vygotsky bit.ly/2SlHymF * Bruner bit.ly/2OB4r4o * Donaldson bit.ly/39eMvo1 * Wittrock bit.ly/3EQW2Sp
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This episode focuses on happiness. Utilitarianism is a strand in philosophy that says the greatest happiness of the greatest number should guide our judgment in all things – including education. But does its modern antecedent, positive psychology, place too much trust in looking on the bright side? * 0:00 - Intro * 1:20 - Introducing Utilitarians/Happiness * 5:37 - Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) * 17:06 - John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) * 28:51 - Martin Seligman (1942–) * 37:35 - Summing Up
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- https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html Bentham bit.ly/3okvNi2 Mill bit.ly/3CYxBRG Seligman bit.ly/2DVc3fw
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This episode covers a sizeable sweep of history, from the perhaps misnamed Dark Ages and the Islamic Golden Age, on through the Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment. As the Christian and Islamic faiths spread, learning became a powerful tool of religion – and Religious Educators, in their turn, changed the shape of learning. * Introducing Religious Educators – 1:18 * Augustine of Hippo (354-430) – 4:58 * Al-Ghazali (1058-1111) – 10:23 * Ibn Tufayl (1106-1185) – 13:18 * Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) – 17:22 * Martin Luther (1483-1546) – 25:06 * John Calvin (1509-1564) – 32:32 * Desiderius Erasmus (1466 – 1536) – 39:23 * John Amos Comenius (1592-1670) – 46:25 * Summing Up – 52:49
The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html * St Augustine bit.ly/2Gm22q1 * Al-Ghazzali bit.ly/3kN3yGI * Ibn Tufayl bit.ly/3m5UtYU * Ignatius bit.ly/2v7D76V * Luther bit.ly/2GcJvMH * Calvin bit.ly/2Ro2MRJ * Erasmus bit.ly/3HmSc5e * Comenius https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2022/07/comenius-1592-1670.html
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Once the stuff of science fiction, Artificial Intelligence is now a part of everyday life. But the story of how it came into being is not often told. This episode reveals its roots in neuropsychology and observations of the physical processes in the brain that lead to learning. The theorists who Donald and John discuss began their work at a time when behaviorism, which by and large disouraged attempts to look within the mind, dominated academic psychology. But despite a few 'winters', AI has developed to the point where it is now all-pervasive, and a driving force of change in learning. * 1:20 Introducing AI Learning * 8:06 Eric Kandel (1929 - ) * 13:29 Donald Olding Hebb (1904 – 1985) * 23:29 Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898 – 1969) & Walter Pitts (1923 – 1969) * 37:37 Frank Rosenblatt (1928 – 1971) * 44:16 David Everett Rumelhart (1942-2011) & Geoffrey Everest Hinton (1947–) * 57:06 Demis Hassabis (1976–) * 1:07:23 Summing Up
Read Donald's book, Artificial Intelligence for Learning: https://www.koganpage.com/product/artificial-intelligence-for-learning-9781789660814 * Kandel bit.ly/3oiiYDo * Hebb bit.ly/3kq3z2A * McCulloch & Pitts bit.ly/3kn6Fo8 * Rosenblatt bit.ly/31PZmih * Rumelhart & Hinton bit.ly/3bXU3zd * Hassabis bit.ly/3qrYgmT
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This episode was recorded live at the Online Educa Conference in Berlin and explores ideas of The Extended Mind. Where do our thoughts live? And if, as some theorists contend, they do not observe physical limitations, but extends to our technology tools and physical surroundings, what are the implications for learning? * 1:22 - Introducing The Extended Mind * 5:43 - Robert Stickgold (1945–) & Matthew Walker (1972/73) * 12:41 - Roger Barker (1903-1990) & James J Gibson (1904-1979) * 19:19 - Andy Clark (1957–) & David Chalmers (1966–) * 25:48 - Douglas Carl Engelbart (1925-2013) * 31:03 - Elon Musk (1971) * 39:22 - Summing Up
The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html * Stickgold & Walker bit.ly/3HHB1LN * Clark & Chalmers bit.ly/3CcuvbW * Musk bit.ly/3cfE2o5
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This episode features a group of people who were not writers, philosophers, psychologists or learning theorists in any usual sense of the term. Nevertheless, their influence on learning has been profound and long-lasting. They were the religious leaders who founded four of the world’s greatest faith traditions. * 00:00 - Intro
- 01:20 - Introducing Religious Leaders
- 05:06 - Confucius (551 – 479 BCE)
- 16:55 - Buddha (6th and 5th C BCE)
- 28:36 - Jesus (7-2 BC to 30-36 AD)
- 41:56 - Muhammad (570 AD – 632 AD)
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52:03 - Summing Up
The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html * Confucious bit.ly/2R4NMI3 * Buddha bit.ly/2Pen4vz * Jesus bit.ly/2NGPOMv * Mohammed bit.ly/2RrIEN6
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- Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design https://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Experience-Design-Create-Effective/dp/1398602620/ref=asc_df_1398602620/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=500792593882&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8463523561401709872&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006565&hvtargid=pla-1245069293197&psc=1&th=1&psc=1
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All humans play games of one type and another. Philosophers and psychologists have seen play as an integral to our nature as human animals. Harnessing the power of this instinctual drive for the purposes of learning has been a perennial theme over the last three decades, givven greater impetus by the dramatic rise of computer games as a new and dynamic form of media. But can game-based experiences, and gamified interfaces, risk destroying learning as much as they support it? This episode looks at the work of theorists who have tangled with this question, illuminating the complex interaction of play, motivation and learning, and the future possibilities opened up by the metaverse. * 0:00 - Intro
- 1:20 - Introducing Gamification
- 9:36 - Johan Huizinga (1872 – 1945)
- 17:45 - James Paul Gee (1948 –)
- 25:46 - Marc Prensky (1946 – )
- 34:05 - Richard M. Ryan and Scott Rigby
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48:52 - Summing Up
The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html * Huizinga bit.ly/3wqrZh5 * Gee bit.ly/3ENDO3W * Prensky bit.ly/2RoMyHr * Ryan & Rigby shorturl.at/emsAB
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- Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design https://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Experience-Design-Create-Effective/dp/1398602620/ref=asc_df_1398602620/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=500792593882&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8463523561401709872&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006565&hvtargid=pla-1245069293197&psc=1&th=1&psc=1
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GMoL is on a mid-season break, but in this bonus episode without Donald Clark, John discusses the series so far with Carl Chrisostomo. Under his social media alias of Carllearns, Carl has been 'learning out loud' on his journey of discovery in learning science. He reflects on the part GMoL has played as guide and wayfinder in that journey. In a sense, it's a learner takeover: both Carl and John talk about how the series has changed their understanding of learning: two minds perhaps less touched by greatness, but both animated by a deepening and widening appreciation of the ways in which we learn, and the rich literature that engages and rewards curiosity about this fascinating subject. * 00:00 Intro
- 00:15 Carl's learning journey
- 08:18 Carl's first GMoL episode
- 13:48 Which episodes resonated with Carl?
- 18:42 How GMOL has changed Carl's view on learning
- 21:04 What should GMoL cover in the future?
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23:17 Where to follow Carl
The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html Follow Carl * Twitter: @carlcrisostomo * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlcrisostomo * Website: http://www.carllearns.com/ * YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/carlcrisostomo
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This episode explores the impact of what has been called the most important idea in human history, Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. A powerful idea, still to this day controversial in some quarters, its impact was felt far beyond the natural sciences where it was first formulated. But what does it mean for learning? * 0:00 - Intro * 1:19 - Introducing the Evolutionists * 9:41 - Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882) * 19:32 - James Mark Baldwin (1861 – 1934) * 29:43 - David C. Geary (1957 – ) * 40:58 - Steven Pinker (1954 – ) * 56:25 - Summing Up
The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html * Darwin bit.ly/3F7lL9W
- Baldwin bit.ly/3FchSAs
- Geary bit.ly/330821Z
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- Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design https://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Experience-Design-Create-Effective/dp/1398602620/ref=asc_df_1398602620/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=500792593882&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8463523561401709872&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006565&hvtargid=pla-1245069293197&psc=1&th=1&psc=1
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When Mark Zuckerberg announced the renaming of his company from Facebook to Meta in 2021, he provoked a surge of interest in this new thing, the Metaverse. But virtual worlds are nothing new, and people have been learning in virtual worlds for over a decade. This episode explores the thought of those who have tackled the practical and philosophical questions that learning in virtual worlds raises. And to be true to the spirit of the subject, Donald and John conducted their discussion INSIDE a virtual world. * 0:00 - Intro
- 1:32 - Introducing VR and the Metaverse
- 10:08 - Jaron Zepel Lanier (1960- )
- 14:30 - Guido Makransky
- 23:04 - David J. Chalmers (1966- )
- 32:23 - Jean Baudrillard (1929 – 2007)
- 40:50 - Mark Zuckerberg (1984- )
- 46:13 - Robert Nozick (1938-2002)
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55:47 - Summing up
The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html * Lanier bit.ly/3qU94KV
Contact Donald
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- Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/
- Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design https://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Experience-Design-Create-Effective/dp/1398602620/ref=asc_df_1398602620/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=500792593882&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8463523561401709872&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006565&hvtargid=pla-1245069293197&psc=1&th=1&psc=1
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When Mark Zuckerberg announced the renaming of his company from Facebook to Meta in 2021, he provoked a surge of interest in this new thing, the Metaverse. But virtual worlds are nothing new, and people have been learning in virtual worlds for over a decade. This episode explores the thought of those who have tackled the practical and philosophical questions that learning in virtual worlds raises. And to be true to the spirit of the subject, Donald and John conducted their discussion INSIDE a virtual world. * 0:00 - Intro
- 1:32 - Introducing VR and the Metaverse
- 10:08 - Jaron Zepel Lanier (1960- )
- 14:30 - Guido Makransky
- 23:04 - David J. Chalmers (1966- )
- 32:23 - Jean Baudrillard (1929 – 2007)
- 40:50 - Mark Zuckerberg (1984- )
- 46:13 - Robert Nozick (1938-2002)
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55:47 - Summing up
The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html * Lanier bit.ly/3qU94KV
Contact Donald
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This group of theorists focused on the easily observable fact that all learners are not the same, and attempted to systematise those differences according to learner preferences. With the best of intentions (in most cases) they divided learners into discrete groups (e.g Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic) and made recommendations for how educators should treat each group. This approach has since been widely attacked in multiple studies that show there is almost no scientific basis to these theories. Nevertheless they remain popular and in common use. Donald and John explore the origins of learning styles, and the reasons for its enduring popularity as an idea. Far from being just a mass delusion, was it perhaps in some of its formulations the signs of a burgeoning - and welcome - recognition of difference among learners? * 0:00 – Intro
- 1:20 - Introducing Learning Styles
- 6:12 - Richard Bandler (1950 – )
- 18:25 - Neil D. Fleming (1939-2022)
- 25:22 - Dr. Rita Dunn and Dr. Kenneth Dunn
- 34:32 - David Allen Kolb (1939 - )
- 41:28 - Peter Honey and Professor Alan Mumford
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48:06 - Summing Up
The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html * Bandler bit.ly/3bsMQpf * Fleming bit.ly/2vv6Uau * Dunn & Dunn [Link TBD] * Honey & Mumford bit.ly/39pKEgB * Kolb bit.ly/2uWWi3R
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This group of theorists focused on the easily observable fact that all learners are not the same, and attempted to systematise those differences according to learner preferences. With the best of intentions (in most cases) they divided learners into discrete groups (e.g Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic) and made recommendations for how educators should treat each group. This approach has since been widely attacked in multiple studies that show there is almost no scientific basis to these theories. Nevertheless they remain popular and in common use. Donald and John explore the origins of learning styles, and the reasons for its enduring popularity as an idea. Far from being just a mass delusion, was it perhaps in some of its formulations the signs of a burgeoning - and welcome - recognition of difference among learners? * 0:00 – Intro
- 1:20 - Introducing Learning Styles
- 6:12 - Richard Bandler (1950 – )
- 18:25 - Neil D. Fleming (1939-2022)
- 25:22 - Dr. Rita Dunn and Dr. Kenneth Dunn
- 34:32 - David Allen Kolb (1939 - )
- 41:28 - Peter Honey and Professor Alan Mumford
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48:06 - Summing Up
The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html * Bandler bit.ly/3bsMQpf * Fleming bit.ly/2vv6Uau * Dunn & Dunn [Link TBD] * Honey & Mumford bit.ly/39pKEgB * Kolb bit.ly/2uWWi3R
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- Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design https://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Experience-Design-Create-Effective/dp/1398602620/ref=asc_df_1398602620/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=500792593882&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8463523561401709872&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006565&hvtargid=pla-1245069293197&psc=1&th=1&psc=1
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At the very origin of our ideas of about learning, as well so much else that defines our culture, lies the extraordinary flowering of thought and discovery centred on Athens from the fifth to the second century BC. This episode takes us back to the very earliest group of thinkers this series will cover, the ancient Greeks. * 1:02 - Introducing the Greeks
- 11:36 - Socrates (c. 470–399 BC)
- 23:34 -Plato (428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC)
- 34:06 - Aristotle (384–322 BC)
- 47:25 - Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
- 53:57 - Euclid (c. 325 - c. 270 BC)
- 57:46 - Archimedes (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
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1:05:41 - Summing Up
The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html * Socrates bit.ly/2FQz0hH * Plato bit.ly/386Cd96 * Aristotle bit.ly/2tdGUzi * Pythagoras, Euclid, Archimedes bit.ly/38hEL46
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This episode’s thinkers were driven by a common belief that while practically all the attention and money in training and education is lavished on formal interventions, informal means of learning account for a much larger proportion of what actually happens. How should this insight change our view of learning, and what role does technology play? Donald and John discuss a movement that has come to seem more and more prescient as learning technology has developed, and whose ideas are becoming increasingly mainstream: informal learning. * 1:03 - Introducing Informal Learning
- 3:58 - Victoria J. Marsick & Karen E Watkins
- 16:31 - Gloria Gery
- 27:39 - Jay Cross (1944-2015)
- 41:12 - Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi (1934-2021)
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54:25 - Summing Up
The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html * Marsick bit.ly/3zTtvs6 * Gery bit.ly/2Ws0qGP * Cross bit.ly/32Vxsh6 * Csikszentmihalyi bit.ly/2IpTXBA
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Workflow learning, or 'learning in the flow of work' as it is often called, is a hot topic these days. In a world where technology delivers fast, personalized information at the point of need, does it really make sense any longer to think of a course as the default unit of learning? This episode explores theorists and practitioners who strove to take learning out of the classroom and the training suite and situate it in the site of performance itself. * Introducing Workflow Learning – 1:04 * Guy W. Wallace - 8:35 * Richard E. Clark – 15:01 * Bob Mosher & Dr. Conrad Goddfredson – 31:19 * Richard Thaler (1945- ) & Cass Sunstein (1954- ) – 41:46 * Charles Jennings - 54:46 * Summing Up – 1:04:17
The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html * Wallace http://bit.ly/3k9r4fY
- Clark http://bit.ly/3oqI1pj
- Mosher & Goddfredson http://bit.ly/3mDn1ZT
- Thaler & Sunstein http://bit.ly/3wvb7G2
- Jennings http://bit.ly/3D5M9ir
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The issue of emotion is something often downplayed or even omitted altogether in accounts of how people learn and how they can best be supported in learning. And yet it turns out to be critically important. At a fundamental level, it is involved in how we encode, retain and access memories. It is also vital to engagement with learning. This episode focuses on theorists from Krathwohl to Shackleton-Jones who thought and wrote about affective learning. * 0:00 - Intro
- 1:02 - Affective Learning
- 5:56 - David Reading Krathwohl (1921-2016)
- 12:02 - Antonio Damasio (1944- ) & Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
- 18:28 - George Philip Lakoff (1941- )
- 24:59 - Jaak Panksepp (1943 – 2017)
- 32:19 - Daniel Kahneman (1934- ) & Amos Tversky (1937 - 1996)
- 40:32 - Nick Shackleton-Jones
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45:20 – Summing up
The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html * Krathwohl bit.ly/3mKKwlj * Damasio & Immordino-Yang https://bit.ly/3pYPnRK * Lakoff bit.ly/3GP8Pq3 * Panksepp bit.ly/3EOOjEb * Kahneman & Tversky bit.ly/3mNNVQ9 * Shackleton-Jones bit.ly/3qcaaS0
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In the late twentieth century organizations embraced the information age and team-working became a more important aspect of workplaces. Along with this change went a shift in learning theory away from an exclusive focus on the individual. This episode looks at a group of theorists who explored learning within the context of teams, families, social networks and society as a whole. ---------- * 0:00 - Intro
- 1:02 - Social and Team Learning
- 3:41 - Meredith Belbin (1926- )
- 17:15 - Eduardo Salas
- 25:29 - Étienne Wenger (1952- )
- 33:32 - Julian Stodd
- 42:40 - Judith Harris (1938-2018)
- 52:48 - Summing up
----------- The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html * Belbin bit.ly/3bvfi9h * Salas bit.ly/2xymumo * Wenger bit.ly/2QRy2HY * Stodd bit.ly/2QLNdCy * Harris bit.ly/2SjwVSr
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Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design https://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Experience-Design-Create-Effective/dp/1398602620/ref=asc_df_1398602620/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=500792593882&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8463523561401709872&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006565&hvtargid=pla-1245069293197&psc=1&th=1&psc=1 Contact John Helmer * Twitter: @johnhelmer * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ * Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/
Darwin's discoveries and the growth of mass education in the 19th Century set the stage for a quest to measure and assess human intelligence. But that quest has often seemed quixotic: marred by poor or non-existent science, skewed by commercial and political agendas, and marred, time and again, in Donald's view, by essentialism. From eugenicist Sir Francis Galton to Daniel Goleman, who popularized emotional intelligence testing, this episode covers the theorists who cast a statistical and sytematizing eye on human differences. * 0:00 - Intro
- 1:04 - The Assessors
- 4:29 - Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911)
- 13:02 - Alfred Binet (1857 – 1911) & Theodore Simon (1873 – 1961)
- 23:18 - Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt (1883-1971)
- 31:08 - Hans Eysenck (1916-1997)
- 39:48 - Howard Gardner (1943- )
- 51:80 - Katherine Cook Briggs (1875-1968) & Isabel Briggs Myers (1897-1980)
- 59:01 - Daniel Goleman (1946- )
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1:08:31 - Summing up
The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html * Galton bit.ly/3FQ1eWv * Binet (&Simon) bit.ly/3oiYavg * Burt bit.ly/3HbqxnL * Eysenck bit.ly/2wXYA35 * Gardner bit.ly/2ILjO73 * Myers-Briggs bit.ly/2IRcnve * Goleman bit.ly/3cUHML7
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The Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. Its thinkers believed in individual liberty, religious tolerance, opposition to absolute monarchy and the dogmas of the Church, and an emphasis on the scientific method and the primacy of reason. The Enlightenment overturned many then traditional ideas about politics, science, arts, law, economics and many other fields – but at the centre of their project was a slew of revolutionary ideas about learning. Donald pinpoints a group of enlightenment thinkers who had particularly interesting things to say about how we learn and how we ought to learn, many of which speak to central issues of our own time. ---------- * The Enlightenment & Learning – 1:02 * John Locke (1632-1704) – 10:26 * Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) – 19:33 * Adam Smith (1723-1790) – 34:02 * Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) – 43:15 * Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817) & Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) – 1:00:58 * Summing up – 1:09:48
---------- The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html * Locke bit.ly/2tDzFAR * Rousseau bit.ly/37rHEzq * Smith bit.ly/2RvBM2F * Wollstonecraft bit.ly/2tTi4Vq * Edgeworths (2) bit.ly/2S1FM9Y
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From blackboards to interactive whiteboards, learning has always made use of technology. But with the advent of computers and then the internet, learning theory entered a new phase from the late 20th Century onwards – as thinkers grappled with the challenges of designing systems and content that could help people learn online. How could making programmable robots stimulate children to learn? What was the best way to combine media for learning – and how could you teach online without distracting or overloading learners? What were the rules for creating optimal learner experiences? These were the questions our online educators asked themselves. ---------- * 0:00 - Intro
- 1:07 - Introducing The Online Educators
- 8:43 - Seymour Aubrey Papert (1928 - 2016)
- 14:33 - Richard E. Mayer (1947 -)
- 24:32 - Clifford Nass (1958 - 2013) & Byron Reeves
- 35:10 Donald Norman (1935 - )
- 44:53 - Jakob Neilsen (1957 - )
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58:06 - Summing up
The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html * Papert bit.ly/3c1oH8J * Mayer bit.ly/34oKmF6 * Nass & Reeves bit.ly/39UTXoo * Norman bit.ly/2RBJ8Bk * Nielsen bit.ly/3bggI7K
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Learning has always had a moral dimension. In pre-enlightenment times religion played a big role in deciding what and how people should learn, but by the 20th Century much of that influence had waned, and thinkers began to explore the ethical bases of learning in different ways.
This episode covers a group of thinkers who explored the moral dimension of learning within different cultural contexts, and the increasing role of communications technology in those debates.
00:58 - Introducing the Moralists
6:52 - Abraham Maslow (1908 - 1970)
16:54 - Lawrence Kohlberg (1927 - 1987)
27:51 - Mamie and Kenneth Clark (1917 - 1983)
35:05 - Jane Roland Martin (1929- )
40:19 - Herbert Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)
50:46 - Neil Postman (1931-2003)
59:26 - Summing up
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- Kohlberg bit.ly/2wOWEK8
- Clarks bit.ly/3xupR75
- Martin bit.ly/38F18jN
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- Postman bit.ly/33g9Kg0
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'We're now beginning to unpack what is really good for learners and teaching' says Donald Clark, 'and it's not what we thought it was.' Learning Theory over the ages has concentrated largely on the 'front end' of the process: learning as an event and an experience. Less attention has been given to the back end, how one makes it stick. This episode concentrates on the people who explored these questions of practice and transfer, from William James to the present day. What they discovered was a quite startling, counter-intuitive truth – one which has largely ignored by the educational establishment to date. ---------- 00:56 - Introducing pragmatism & practice 04:51 - What’s the timeline? 05:47 - William James (1842 - 1910) 16:39 - John Dewey (1859-1952) 26:32 - K. Anders Ericsson (1947-2020) 36:37 - Robert A. Bjork (1939- ) & Elizabeth L. Bjork 43:41 - Henry L. Roediger III (1947-) and Jeffrey D. Karpicke 49:00 - Summing up ---------- Books mentioned in the discussion Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning By Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger (III), Mark A. McDaniel · 2014 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Make_It_Stick/oneWAwAAQBAJ?hl=en Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise By Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool · 2016 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Peak/eHfkCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html James bit.ly/2T2GntN Dewey bit.ly/37Z35ra Ericsson bit.ly/2PBrvR3 Bjork bit.ly/2PA9UZZ Karpicke & Roediger bit.ly/3uPhumZ Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/ Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/ Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/ Download the new white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer & Ben Betts – Suite Dreams: The Past, Present and Future of Learning Systems https://learningpool.com/suite-dreams/
In this episode, Donald and John discuss a group of theorists who mostly focused directly on instructional design, and who between them created a body of work which is canonical to the practice of learning design. Although their most famous maxims feature prominently on PowerPoints and blogs about learning design to this day, their ideas are often cherry-picked and misrepresented – as in the strange case of Benjamin Bloom and his eponymous Taxonomy. Donald calls for a revaluation, arguing passionately for their continued relevance and far-sightedness. 00:56 Introducing the Instructionalists 06:52 Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) 12:51 Benjamin Bloom (1913-1999) 26:29 Robert M. Gagné (1916-2002) 38:43 Robert F. Mager (1923-2020) 50:09 M. David Merrill (1937 -) 59:41 Summary The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html Taylor bit.ly/2Qmi6g4 Bloom bit.ly/32QB3NL Gagne bit.ly/38iITR0 Mager bit.ly/38gyGVl Merrill bit.ly/2wtTyeo Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/ Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/ Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/ Download the new white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer & Ben Betts – Suite Dreams: The Past, Present and Future of Learning Systems https://learningpool.com/suite-dreams/
In this first episode of the first season of Great Minds on Learning, Donald Clark discusses the Behaviorists, a group of theorists who, starting with Pavlov in the early part of the 20th Century, did much to put psychology and the psychology of learning on an experimental, empirical basis. He argues that the Behaviorists have been much misunderstood. In particular, the myths surrounding B.F. Skinner, which have turned him into something of a hate-figure, have helped to spread the notion that behaviorist ideas were wrong-headed and have been superseded by cognitive psychology. In fact, their ideas, though still controversial, are probably more pervasive than ever. ---------- 00:56 - What is Behaviorism, and why do people hate it so much? 06:09 - What is the timeline? 07:50 - Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) 14:50 - John B. Watson (1878 - 1958) 23:31 - B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) 31:17 - Edward L. Thorndike (1874 – 1949) 36:56 - Edward C. Tolman (1886-1959) 41:31 - Albert Bandura (1925-2021) 49:36 - Behaviorism: the legacy ---------- The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html Pavlov bit.ly/2V2cbQV Watson bit.ly/3lj33mD Skinner bit.ly/39Rlw2f Thorndike bit.ly/3bRXuWP Tolman bit.ly/3CqImwE Bandura bit.ly/32frFTg Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/ Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/ Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/ Download the new white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer & Ben Betts – Suite Dreams: The Past, Present and Future of Learning Systems https://learningpool.com/suite-dreams/
Another chance to hear the inaugural episode of Great Minds on Learning, which was originally aired back in March 2021 to considerable acclaim. In this series, Donald Clark – the internationally famous author, blogger and entrepreneur, joins John Helmer to discuss the history of thought and theorising about learning. This particular episode is about The Cognitivists, a group of theorists who made a vital contribution to what we now know about the mechanics of memory and learning. ---------- 00:47 Why is memory such an important focus for the cognitivists? 02:27 Introducing the Cognitivists 04:07 Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909) 13:49 George A. MIller (1920-2012) 19:25 Richard C. Atkinson (1929- ) & Richard Shiffrin (1942- ) 24:09 Alan Baddeley (1934- ) 28:49 Endel Tulving (1927- ) 37:57 John Sweller (1946- ) 47:04 Summing up: the Cognitivists and Behaviourism ---------- The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html Ebbinhaus bit.ly/2VvoxkX Miller bit.ly/37OaB85 Atkinson & Shiffrin bit.ly/37SEKTK Baddeley bit.ly/37WfFHq Tulving bit.ly/2VmFKNw Sweller bit.ly/2I7Pt2t Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/ Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/ Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/ Download the new white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer & Ben Betts – Suite Dreams: The Past, Present and Future of Learning Systems https://learningpool.com/suite-dreams/
Internationally respected author, blogger and learning expert, Donald Clark joins John Helmer of the Learning Hack podcast to discuss the history of thought and theorising about learning. From the Greeks to the Geeks, they cover 2,500 years of thought and science on learning. The inspired, the enduring, the wacked-out weird and the just plain wrong, from Socrates to the present day. Starting with a repeat of the popular pilot episode The Cognitivists on 30 August, the series proper kicks off on 13 September and runs fortnightly, alternating with the Learning Hack podcast. Note that Great Minds audio podcast is on a separate podcast stream, so if you want to get it regularly, you will have to subscribe on your podcast platform of choice. Here's Season One: * The Behaviorists * Instructionalists * Practice * Holists * Online Educators * The Enlightenment Don't miss a single episode: subscribe now.
Internationally respected author, blogger and learning expert, Donald Clark joins John Helmer of the Learning Hack podcast to discuss the history of thought and theorising about learning. From the Greeks to the Geeks, they cover 2,500 years of thought and science on learning. The inspired, the enduring, the wacked-out weird and the just plain wrong, from Socrates to the present day. Starting with a repeat of the popular pilot episode The Cognitivists on 30 August, the series proper kicks off on 13 September and runs fortnightly. Here's Season One: * The Behaviorists * Instructionalists * Practice * Holists * Online Educators * The Enlightenment Don't miss a single episode: subscribe now.