"Don't lecture me" - Donald Clark at ALT-C 2010

"Don't lecture me" Keynote speech by Donald Clark, at "Into something rich and strange" - making sense of the sea change, the 2010 conference of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT). Session given in Nottingham, UK, on Tuesday 7 September 2010, at 10.20. For information about ALT go to http://www.alt.ac.uk/. Made publicly available by ALT under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.0 UK: England & Wales license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b....

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[Kyuudousha]

Very interesting talk. (As an aside, he's making a lot of sideswipes on what he calls 'bogus' theories, Maslow, NLP etc, I'd find it more enlightening if he referred back to the scientific method, or data, or research on this, so his viewpoint would be clearer).

[ClipsFromALT]

Donald Clark has edited the transcript of his talk and we will publish it soon. There are some reference-links in the edited transcript. I hope to find a way to point to the transcript from the video itself.

Seb Schmoller

Association for Learning Technology (ALT)

[Cri5pne55]

Great work. Keeping the best for last.

Nice sideswipe on the faux-inclusion agenda.

I love that picture of MLF distributing ponies to poor kids

[ClipsFromALT]

Personally though I thought Donald's "pony image" funny I believe MLF is a force for good, and a courageous one at that. The 18/10/2010 Independent has a substantial and informative interview with MLF. Unfortunately. YouTube seems not permit me to post a link to it.

Seb Schmoller

ALT

[ClipsFromALT]

The titles have now been revised across the whole of our channel.

[Mike Johnson]

I am not a fan of 'reading out your paper at conferences' but where the person has language problems it may be their only hope of keeping cogent. At least then they stick to their argument. There is also something about the sharing of space/time with them and dedicating that time to attending to what they have to say in a way I would not ever find time to do so without that 'pedagogic control' over my activity.

[efl20]

This would have been much better as a dialogue or interview. Sitting down or whatever...  I also agree on the lack of academic integrity and air of "smuggness" about it.

[Kyuudousha]

Thanks, Seb, I'll look out for that.

[Kyuudousha]

Thanks. Seb, I'll look out for that.

[Kyuudousha]

thanks for that, Seb. I'll keep an eye open for it.