GMoLS6E32 Scribes: The Invention of Writing with Donald Clark
Great Minds on Learning
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...
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GMoLS6E31 Leadership with Donald Clark
Great Minds on Learning
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...
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GMoLS6E0 - Private View of Season 6 with Donald Clark
Great Minds on Learning
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! The Blog that started it all: Contact Donald X: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Contact John Helmer X: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: Patreon:
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GMoLS5E30 Generative AI with Donald Clark
Great Minds on Learning
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...
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GMoLS5E29 Critics of Schools with Donald Clark
Great Minds on Learning
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 -...
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GMoLS5E28 Schools with Donald Clark
Great Minds on Learning
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. ...
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GMoLS5E27 Marxists with Donald Clark
Great Minds on Learning
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...
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GMoLS5E27 Marxists with Donald Clark
Great Minds on Learning
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...
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GMoLS5E27 Marxists with Donald Clark [TEASER]
Great Minds on Learning
THE FULL EPISODE DROPS ON 30/10/23 To listen now, subscribe to the Learning Hack Pack on Patreon. As well as early access, you'll get Text summaries AI transcripts Ads-free listening and more 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...
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GMoLS5E26 German Idealists with Donald Clark
Great Minds on Learning
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....
info_outline- 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
- 48:52 - Summing Up
- Huizinga bit.ly/3wqrZh5
- Gee bit.ly/3ENDO3W
- Prensky bit.ly/2RoMyHr
- Ryan & Rigby shorturl.at/emsAB
Contact Donald
- Twitter: @DonaldClark
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/
- 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
Contact John Helmer
- Twitter: @johnhelmer
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/
- Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/