Keynote by: Debriefing: An essential, but overlooked, method for transforming experience into learning
Main Room
Workshop
Physical
15:00
19 March 2025
Debriefing can be described as a structured episode during and/or after a learning activity, in which participants reflect on and share their experience with fellow participants, with the purpose of transforming it into learning. During my talk, I will attempt to show how crucial debriefing is for any learning experience. This includes field trips, research, internships and simulation/games. Debriefing is particularly important for transforming learning experiences that tend to generate difficult emotions, for example, a difficult internship, a problematic field trip, simulation/games about the social and psychological dimensions of climate change. In my talk, I will touch on things like debriefing structure, learner independence, preparation, sequence.
David Crookall
David Crookall
David Crookall has been using experiential learning activities his whole life, first as a kid, then in his professional life, mostly using simulation/games. He is now retired, but still at it. He has held positions in several universities, in the USA, France, Singapore and Thailand. For many years, he was editor in chief of the main academic journal in simulation/gaming, and has published widely (articles and books). He is an honorary member of the International Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA). He is currently lead guest editor of a special issue of the European Geoscience Union (EGU) journal Geoscience Communication, on the theme of climate & ocean education & communication.
