Colin Beard's guest appearances

Colin Beard

Education Bookcast

ROAR:  Richmond Football Club history

The "E" of Real Estate

Chrysalising

Daniel Kahneman

David Epstein

Cal Newport

Malcolm Gladwell

Jared Diamond

Meg Jay

Jane McGonigal

Kristin Neff

Brené Brown

James Tooley

Oliver Sacks

Josh Waitzkin

Sugata Mitra

Jaron Lanier

Charles Duhigg

OwlTail

This is NOT the actual fireside chat session that we have with Professor Colin Beard, a national fellow with the Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. This is more an introduction session to the fireside chats that are to follow. Fireside chats are meant to be intimate sessions of conversations between those who attend, and a safe space for the participants to have conversations and share thoughts and ideas and concerns and questions. And thus, the actual conversations will never be published. If this is a topic that is close to your heart, and feel that you would like to organise it for your community, you can drop us an email at contact@chrysalists.asia to get in touch! We'll be more than glad to help!

This is NOT the actual fireside chat session that we have with Professor Colin Beard, a national fellow with the Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. This is more an introduction session to the fireside chats that are to follow. Fireside chats are meant to be intimate sessions of conversations between those who attend, and a safe space for the participants to have conversations and share thoughts and ideas and concerns and questions. And thus, the actual conversations will never be published. If this is a topic that is close to your heart, and feel that you would like to organise it for your community, you can drop us an email at <a href="//contact@chrysalists.asia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">contact@chrysalists.asia</a> to get in touch! We'll be more than glad to help!

[Sneak Peek] Fireside Chat with Professor Colin Beard - The Future of Experiential Learning

John Wilson

I'm just about to do another episode where I talk about a scientific article on this very topic, criticising the approach. I thought it only fair to see it from the side of the proponents as well. Unfortunately, this book is something of a disappointment. There are many minor annoyances early on such as inconsistent use of terminology and a lack of back-up to some claims. But there are much greater issues than that. For one thing, the authors seem to have difficulty defining the concept, and certainly find it hard to do so succinctly. This is not a good sign. The thing that really strikes me, though, is how the central idea of the book is not very useful at all. It proposes a way in which we can view any lesson or educational experience from various perspectives, by considering aspects of the experience (such as which senses are being used, and how the learner responds emotionally). The trouble is, this only leads to a combinatorical explosion - there are so many possibilities, but which possibilities are good? So many perspectives, but which ones are useful? A real expert focuses on providing the right way of thinking about a situation, not on all the different ways you can view a situation. Ultimately I find that there is little that is useful here. I still wanted to talk about the book a bit in order to be clear about what my expectations are, and why this book doesn't meet them. Enjoy the episode.

I'm just about to do another episode where I talk about a scientific article on this very topic, criticising the approach. I thought it only fair to see it from the side of the proponents as well. Unfortunately, this book is something of a disappointment. There are many minor annoyances early on such as inconsistent use of terminology and a lack of back-up to some claims. But there are much greater issues than that. For one thing, the authors seem to have difficulty defining the concept, and certainly find it hard to do so succinctly. This is not a good sign. The thing that really strikes me, though, is how the central idea of the book is not very useful at all. It proposes a way in which we can view any lesson or educational experience from various perspectives, by considering aspects of the experience (such as which senses are being used, and how the learner responds emotionally). The trouble is, this only leads to a combinatorical explosion - there are so many possibilities, but which possibilities are good? So many perspectives, but which ones are useful? A real expert focuses on providing the right way of thinking about a situation, not on all the different ways you can view a situation. Ultimately I find that there is little that is useful here. I still wanted to talk about the book a bit in order to be clear about what my expectations are, and why this book doesn't meet them. Enjoy the episode.

87. Experiential Learning by Colin Beard and John Wilson

Ep 53. Colin Beard - 1969 premiership player. Interview by Rhett Bartlett, June 2019."Rhett, you've got no idea what its like to sit out of football, if you've played 163 games and you think you deserve to be part of the action."

Ep 53. Colin Beard - 1969 premiership player. Interview by Rhett Bartlett, June 2019. "Rhett, you've got no idea what its like to sit out of football, if you've played 163 games and you think you deserve to be part of the action."

Ep 53: Colin Beard