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Experiential Learning: Beginning
So, what can you hope to gain from reading these volumes? If your hopes for these books is similar, we've made a list of hopes distilled from these classes:
1) Learn practical knowledge about designing experiential exercises.
2) Expand my understanding of what participants experience during experiential exercises.
3) Unlearn things that interfere with effective experiential learning.
4) Help to expand my "big picture" about this topic.
5) Link to other knowledge to help increase my effectiveness.
6) Figure out if students are really learning.
We've used this list to guide us in deciding what to include, and as with any experiential exercise, this book may lead its readers to many additional lessons we never planned for them.
And, of course, a book may be an experience for a reader, but it's not what we're thinking of as an experiential exercise (though a reader may benefit greatly from trying at least some of the exercises described here) In the final analysis, a book about the effectiveness of experiential exercises may seem to be a paradox, but there's a learning there, too.
We are not claiming that experiential learning is the only way to learn. We're not even claiming that experiential exercises always teach anything worthwhile, or that students never take away erroneous or vacuous learnings. We're merely saying that we have found this approach to be one more tool for our teaching repertoire—a tool that has been strikingly effective for us as both teachers and learners. We hope it turns out that way for you, as well.
1) Learn practical knowledge about designing experiential exercises.
2) Expand my understanding of what participants experience during experiential exercises.
3) Unlearn things that interfere with effective experiential learning.
4) Help to expand my "big picture" about this topic.
5) Link to other knowledge to help increase my effectiveness.
6) Figure out if students are really learning.
We've used this list to guide us in deciding what to include, and as with any experiential exercise, this book may lead its readers to many additional lessons we never planned for them.
And, of course, a book may be an experience for a reader, but it's not what we're thinking of as an experiential exercise (though a reader may benefit greatly from trying at least some of the exercises described here) In the final analysis, a book about the effectiveness of experiential exercises may seem to be a paradox, but there's a learning there, too.
We are not claiming that experiential learning is the only way to learn. We're not even claiming that experiential exercises always teach anything worthwhile, or that students never take away erroneous or vacuous learnings. We're merely saying that we have found this approach to be one more tool for our teaching repertoire—a tool that has been strikingly effective for us as both teachers and learners. We hope it turns out that way for you, as well.
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Gerald M. Weinberg
95 books373 followersGerald Marvin Weinberg (October 27, 1933 – August 7, 2018) was an American computer scientist, author and teacher of the psychology and anthropology of computer software development.
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June 8, 2012
Gerald Weinberg has launched a new book series called Experiential Learning.If you design or run experiential workshops, check it out. If you have never run an experiential workshop, but would like to, check it out. If you have no idea what experiential learning is, check it out.
Over the past 23 years I've attended at least a dozen of Jerry's workshops—maybe two dozen—on topics such as leadership, writing, and consulting. Jerry's workshops have been enormously influential in my life, not only for what I learned about their content, but also for what I learned about how to create and run experiential workshops.
From Facebook: George Dinwiddie What a wonderful book it is, too! As a bonus, the exercises described in it bring back so many wonderful memories. One of my favorites is the lemons.
Over the past 23 years I've attended at least a dozen of Jerry's workshops—maybe two dozen—on topics such as leadership, writing, and consulting. Jerry's workshops have been enormously influential in my life, not only for what I learned about their content, but also for what I learned about how to create and run experiential workshops.
From Facebook: George Dinwiddie What a wonderful book it is, too! As a bonus, the exercises described in it bring back so many wonderful memories. One of my favorites is the lemons.
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