[Xmca-l] Re: Looking for lit on experiential learning?

Greg Thompson greg.a.thompson@gmail.com
Fri Jan 8 10:49:18 PST 2016


Thanks Michael and Greg,
Interesting that the place to go for experience is virtual reality!

-greg

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Glassman, Michael <glassman.13@osu.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Greg,
>
> My own feeling is the best work in experiential learning right now is
> being done in virtual reality and I think eventually augmented reality.
> Check out the work of Kurt Squire and to a lesser extent Gilly Salmon.
>
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-l-bounces+mglassman=ehe.ohio-state.edu@mailman.ucsd.edu
> [mailto:xmca-l-bounces+mglassman=ehe.ohio-state.edu@mailman.ucsd.edu] On
> Behalf Of Greg Mcverry
> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2016 12:46 PM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>;
> xmca-l@ucsd.edu; kari kane <kari333@live.com>
> Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Looking for lit on experiential learning?
>
> Big fan of Chip Bruce's work on inquiry learning and she should check out
> what the Digital Media Learning Hub is doing with the Connected Learning
> framework.
>
> These two sources may not show up in traditional lit reviews of
> experiential learning.
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016, 12:23 PM Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Folks,
> > I have a favor to ask:
> >
> > I have a student who is interested in experiential learning (Kari
> > Kane, cc'd on this email, so please "reply all" if possible), and
> > we're looking for a greater breadth of the literature on experiential
> learning.
> >
> > So far, we have David Kolb's work on experiential learning and I've
> > pointed her to some oldie but goodie stuff by Dewey as well as the not
> > quite so oldie stuff by Cole.
> >
> > So I'm just wondering if you have suggestions of folks who have done
> > particularly good work/writing on experiential learning? (doesn't
> > necessarily have to be from a CHAT perspective, just good work).
> >
> > Some more details on Kari's research, she is going to be doing an
> > academic internship at (and eventually shaping her thesis around) work
> > at a tuition-based school for troubled youth that employs experiential
> > learning as one of the main pedagogical/therapeutic tools. Kari's
> > eventual interests are to bring a model like this to her work in
> > low-income communities, but for now she is focusing on the practice
> > and process of experiential learning.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance for your help with this!
> > -greg
> >
> > --
> > Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D.
> > Assistant Professor
> > Department of Anthropology
> > 880 Spencer W. Kimball Tower
> > Brigham Young University
> > Provo, UT 84602
> > http://byu.academia.edu/GregoryThompson
> >
>
>


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Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
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Brigham Young University
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