2500 years of learning theory: The good, the bad & the ugly - Donald Clark

2500 years of learning theory:The good, the bad & the ugly

How this relates to tech in learning

Donald Clark

“I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures”

Samuel Johnson

Holes in the researchArora (2010)

Erasmus University Rotterdam

“little real independent evidence, other than that provided by HiWEL “

“not comparing amount of time spent on hole-in-wall material with same time in school.. Comparison was meaningless”

“self-defeating… ‘hole-in-the-wall’ has become the ‘computer-in-the-school”

Holes in the researchMark Warschauer

Professor of Education University of California

“parents thought it irrelevant ““distracted the children from their homework ““most of the time they were playing games”“low level learning and not challenging”“no Hindi content (only language they knew)”

“overall the project was not very effective”

“it took me 30 minutes to think about and write this response. I would have spent the time on planning a new project for very poor children.

Would someone, perhaps Donald, like to take the responsibility for this wastage and the resultant loss to them.”

Sugata Mitra

TVFBIJFKCIAIBM

TV FBI JFK CIA IBM

Working memory

Semantic/episodic memory

Cues

Deliberate practice

Dec 2010

Dec 2010

Learning styles and pedagogy in post -16 learning – A systematic and critical reviewThis report critically reviews the literature on learning styles and examines in detail 13 of the most influential models. The report concludes that it matters fundamentally which instrument is chosen. The implications for teaching and learning in post-16 learning are serious and should be of concern to learners, teachers and trainers, managers, researchers and inspectors.

Black & WilliamInside the Black Box

Formative feedback key to better learning•Rarely diagnostic•Be specific and constructive•Hinge questions

•Tests are terminal •DON’T mark

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Black & WilliamInside the Black Box

Avoid marking:•Poor as formative assessment•Mark of fixed ability - says nothing about improvement•Even high achievers – done enough, not full competence•Tests are terminal – mark of Cain

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Techology as trainer

‘organize world's information & make it universally accessible & useful’

•Profound pedagogic productivity shift•Outsourced memory

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Techology as trainer

Video

MOOCs

Over 1 billion unique users a monthOver 6 billion hours watched a month (An hour for every person on Earth)100 hours uploaded every minute Localised 61 countries 61 languagesMore than any cable networkA LEARNING PLATFORM

33,856 videos 477,248,454 views 2,154,827 subscribers

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Techology as trainer

MOOCs

“Love or hate them MOOCs have forced open a debate at policy level on digital education”

“touch learners much more than you might think”

“courses can be run at surprisingly large scale”

“Accelerated a range of technological innovations doing things at scale – peer assessment”

2020•10,000,000 students•“Without technology this is undoable”

• 75% would treat job-related MOOCs positively in hiring

• 71% would use them in future• 57% could see using MOOCs for

recruitment• positive reaction across all sectors

Employers and MOOCs (Duke):

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Techology as trainer

VR is not a device but a

medium

VR

Oculus Rift

$2 billion

Games

TV & Film

Dec 2010

Education

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Techology as trainer

Spaced practice

Spaced practice

1. Start and end

2. Notes

3. Sleep

4. Games5. Adaptive

6. Social Media

- Email | Facebook/Twitter | Blogs

7. Mobile

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