Great Minds on Learning: Recent Episodes
The Learning Hack podcast
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 whacked-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...
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...
Second of a two-part series on the invention of writing and the impact of literacy on learning.
First of a two-part series on the invention of writing and the impact of literacy on learning.
Theories and critiques of leadership learning: the attribution problem and its consequences.
A widely discredited branch of learning theory that still has adherents. Was there something it got right?