Oct 11, 2021
'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
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/