Great Minds on Learning
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
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GMoLS6E31 Leadership with Donald Clark
04/15/2024
GMoLS6E31 Leadership with Donald Clark
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: Contact Donald X: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Contact John Helmer X: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: Patreon:
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GMoLS6E0 - Private View of Season 6 with Donald Clark
04/11/2024
GMoLS6E0 - Private View of Season 6 with Donald Clark
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
12/11/2023
GMoLS5E30 Generative AI with Donald Clark
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 The Blog that started it all: Contact Donald X: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Contact John Helmer X: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: Patreon:
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GMoLS5E29 Critics of Schools with Donald Clark
12/04/2023
GMoLS5E29 Critics of Schools with Donald Clark
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: Illich Gatto Holt Contact Donald X: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Contact John Helmer X: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: Patreon:
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GMoLS5E28 Schools with Donald Clark
11/13/2023
GMoLS5E28 Schools with Donald Clark
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: Montessori Steiner Neill Colbert Burt Contact Donald X: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Contact John Helmer X: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: Patreon:
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GMoLS5E27 Marxists with Donald Clark
10/30/2023
GMoLS5E27 Marxists with Donald Clark
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: Marx Gramsci Althusser Habermas Freire Contact Donald X: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog:
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GMoLS5E27 Marxists with Donald Clark
10/30/2023
GMoLS5E27 Marxists with Donald Clark
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: Marx Gramsci Althusser Habermas Freire Contact Donald X: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog:
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GMoLS5E27 Marxists with Donald Clark [TEASER]
10/25/2023
GMoLS5E27 Marxists with Donald Clark [TEASER]
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 a rich and powerful explanatory system. And though controversial to this day, Marxist thought has had an enduring effect on learning and education.
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GMoLS5E26 German Idealists with Donald Clark
10/09/2023
GMoLS5E26 German Idealists with Donald Clark
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 The Blog that started it all: Kant bit.ly/3wIBsk9 Herbart bit.ly/30rdE8w Hegel bit.ly/3qGvkYO Humboldt bit.ly/2OQzyZS Contact Donald X: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Contact John Helmer X: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: Patreon:
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GMoLS5E25 Evaluation with Donald Clark
09/25/2023
GMoLS5E25 Evaluation with Donald Clark
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 The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html Kirkpatrick bit.ly/2UdDyWf Contact Donald X: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Contact John Helmer X: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: Patreon:
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GMoLS4E24 Internet As Knowledge with Donald Clark
04/24/2023
GMoLS4E24 Internet As Knowledge with Donald Clark
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: Page & Brin bit.ly/39B26hA Chen & Hurley bit.ly/348ZOVV Wales bit.ly/34at66s Khan Luis von Ahn bit.ly/3hst7uw Altman Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Read Donald's latest book, Learning Technology Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: Patreon: 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.
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GMoLS4E23 Technology Delivery with Donald Clark
04/11/2023
GMoLS4E23 Technology Delivery with Donald Clark
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: Pressey & Skinner bit.ly/3pf3L7Y Berners-Lee bit.ly/2wE9Cep Gates bit.ly/2WS3hXj Jobs bit.ly/3bFx8Go Dougiamas bit.ly/2UXOJTq Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Read Donald's latest book, Learning Technology Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/learninghack
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GMoLS4E22 Social Constructivists with Donald Clark
03/27/2023
GMoLS4E22 Social Constructivists with Donald Clark
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: Piaget bit.ly/2vRLT9J Vygotsky bit.ly/2SlHymF Bruner bit.ly/2OB4r4o Donaldson bit.ly/39eMvo1 Wittrock bit.ly/3EQW2Sp Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Read Donald's latest book, Learning Technology Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/learninghack
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GMoLS4E21 Utilitarians/Happiness with Donald Clark
02/27/2023
GMoLS4E21 Utilitarians/Happiness with Donald Clark
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 descendant, 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 The Blog that started it all: 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 Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Read Donald's latest book, Learning Technology Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/learninghack
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GMoLS4E20 Religious Educators with Donald Clark
02/13/2023
GMoLS4E20 Religious Educators with Donald Clark
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: 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 Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Read Donald's latest book, Learning Technology Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/learninghack
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GMoLS4E19 AI Learning with Donald Clark
01/29/2023
GMoLS4E19 AI Learning with Donald Clark
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: 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 The Blog that started it all: Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: Support the podcast on Patreon:
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GMoLS3E18 Extended Mind with Donald Clark
12/05/2022
GMoLS3E18 Extended Mind with Donald Clark
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: Stickgold & Walker bit.ly/3HHB1LN Clark & Chalmers bit.ly/3CcuvbW Musk bit.ly/3cfE2o5 Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/
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GMoLS3E17 Religious Leaders with Donald Clark
11/21/2022
GMoLS3E17 Religious Leaders with Donald Clark
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) 52:03 - Summing Up The Blog that started it all: Confucious bit.ly/2R4NMI3 Buddha bit.ly/2Pen4vz Jesus bit.ly/2NGPOMv Mohammed bit.ly/2RrIEN6 Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/
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GMoLS3E16 Gamification with Donald Clark
11/07/2022
GMoLS3E16 Gamification with Donald Clark
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 48:52 - Summing Up The Blog that started it all: Huizinga bit.ly/3wqrZh5 Gee bit.ly/3ENDO3W Prensky bit.ly/2RoMyHr Ryan & Rigby shorturl.at/emsAB Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/
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GMoLS3 Bonus episode: What Did We Learn? with Carl Crisostomo
10/24/2022
GMoLS3 Bonus episode: What Did We Learn? with Carl Crisostomo
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? 23:17 Where to follow Carl The Blog that started it all: Follow Carl Twitter: @carlcrisostomo LinkedIn: Website: YouTube Channel: Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/
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GMoLS3E15 Evolutionists with Donald Clark
10/10/2022
GMoLS3E15 Evolutionists with Donald Clark
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: Darwin bit.ly/3F7lL9W Baldwin bit.ly/3FchSAs Geary bit.ly/330821Z Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/
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GMoLS3E14 VR & Metaverse with Donald Clark
09/26/2022
GMoLS3E14 VR & Metaverse with Donald Clark
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) 55:47 - Summing up The Blog that started it all: Lanier bit.ly/3qU94KV Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/
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GMoL S3E13 Learning Styles with Donald Clark
09/12/2022
GMoL S3E13 Learning Styles with Donald Clark
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 48:06 - Summing Up The Blog that started it all: Bandler bit.ly/3bsMQpf Fleming bit.ly/2vv6Uau Dunn & Dunn [Link TBD] Honey & Mumford bit.ly/39pKEgB Kolb bit.ly/2uWWi3R Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/
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GMoL S2E12 Greeks with Donald Clark
05/03/2022
GMoL S2E12 Greeks with Donald Clark
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) 1:05:41 - Summing Up The Blog that started it all: Socrates bit.ly/2FQz0hH Plato bit.ly/386Cd96 Aristotle bit.ly/2tdGUzi Pythagoras, Euclid, Archimedes bit.ly/38hEL46 Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/
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GMoL S2E11 Informal Learning with Donald Clark
04/11/2022
GMoL S2E11 Informal Learning with Donald Clark
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) 54:25 - Summing Up The Blog that started it all: Marsick bit.ly/3zTtvs6 Gery bit.ly/2Ws0qGP Cross bit.ly/32Vxsh6 Csikszentmihalyi bit.ly/2IpTXBA Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/
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Workflow Learning with Donald Clark
03/28/2022
Workflow Learning with Donald Clark
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: Wallace Clark Mosher & Goddfredson Thaler & Sunstein Jennings Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/
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Affective Learning with Donald Clark
02/28/2022
Affective Learning with Donald Clark
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 45:20 – Summing up The Blog that started it all: Krathwohl bit.ly/3mKKwlj Damasio & Immordino-Yang Lakoff bit.ly/3GP8Pq3 Panksepp bit.ly/3EOOjEb Kahneman & Tversky bit.ly/3mNNVQ9 Shackleton-Jones bit.ly/3qcaaS0 Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/
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Social/Team Learning with Donald Clark
02/14/2022
Social/Team Learning with Donald Clark
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: Belbin bit.ly/3bvfi9h Salas bit.ly/2xymumo Wenger bit.ly/2QRy2HY Stodd bit.ly/2QLNdCy Harris bit.ly/2SjwVSr Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/
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Assessors with Donald Clark
01/31/2022
Assessors with Donald Clark
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- ) 1:08:31 - Summing up The Blog that started it all: 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 Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/
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The Enlightenment with Donald Clark
12/06/2021
The Enlightenment with Donald Clark
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: Locke bit.ly/2tDzFAR Rousseau bit.ly/37rHEzq Smith bit.ly/2RvBM2F Wollstonecraft bit.ly/2tTi4Vq Edgeworths (2) bit.ly/2S1FM9Y Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: Blog: Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: 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/
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