Great Minds on Learning

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: 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)
• 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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  John talks to Julian Stodd, Captain of Sea Salt Learning, a strategic consultancy that partners on the design and delivery of global solutions around leadership, culture, learning transformation and change.   Julian has an academic background in communication theory, psychology and neurophysiology, learning design, educational psychology and philosophy. He has written 14 books, including most recently, 'The Humble Leader', released in March 2022.  

• 00.00 Intro
• 02:56 'The Humble Leader'
• 04:34 Definition of The Social Age
• 07:50 Relationships between workers and their organizations
• 16:34 Is he an idealist?
• 24:31 Important areas for learning professionals
• 31:13 Julian's origin story
• 34:29 His work with organizations
• 43:32 Myth & storytelling
• 47:29 Where to follow Julian's thought

Follow Julian:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julian-stodd-6774377
• Twitter: @julianstodd

Julian's websites:

• http://www.julianstodd.wordpress.com/ (Blog)
• http://www.seasaltlearning.co.uk/ (Company Website)
• https://dailyquestions.substack.com/welcome (Social Leadership Daily)

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Download the white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer – The Spacing Effect: Harnessing the Power of Spaced Practice for Learning That Sticks https://learningpool.com/spacing-effect-harnessing-power-of-spaced-practice/

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
• 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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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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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

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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: 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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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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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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• 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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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/

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 - )
• 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

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/ 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/

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

The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html

• Maslow bit.ly/2TAzb8z
• Kohlberg bit.ly/2wOWEK8
• Clarks bit.ly/3xupR75
• Martin bit.ly/38F18jN
• McLuhan bit.ly/2IGJamx
• Postman bit.ly/33g9Kg0

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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/