GMoLS4E24 Internet As Knowledge 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: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html

Contact Donald
X: @DonaldClark
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/
Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/

Contact John Helmer
X: @johnhelmer
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/
Website: https://learninghackpodcast.com/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LearningHack/

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: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html

• Illich bit.ly/2yacZKs
• Gatto bit.ly/34zStPx
• Holt bit.ly/3zzkHrp

Contact Donald

• X: @DonaldClark
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/
• Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/

Contact John Helmer

• X: @johnhelmer
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/
• Website: https://learninghackpodcast.com/
• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LearningHack/

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: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html

Montessori bit.ly/38s6CiM
Steiner bit.ly/2uMqkaj
Neill bit.ly/2SSEv5A
Colbert bit.ly/2wgY4wO
Burt bit.ly/39FAHLU

Contact Donald
X: @DonaldClark
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/
Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/

Contact John Helmer
X: @johnhelmer
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/
Website: https://learninghackpodcast.com/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LearningHack/

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: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html

Marx bit.ly/315AxKF
Gramsci bit.ly/2REFkj6
Althusser bit.ly/2UihsUe
Habermas bit.ly/46TpxAS
Freire bit.ly/496gQF1

Contact Donald
X: @DonaldClark
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/
Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/

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: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html

Marx bit.ly/315AxKF
Gramsci bit.ly/2REFkj6
Althusser bit.ly/2UihsUe
Habermas bit.ly/46TpxAS
Freire bit.ly/496gQF1

Contact Donald
X: @DonaldClark
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/
Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/

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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.