David Kolb and experiential learning

Have you ever heard of experiential learning??
Experiential learners are those who learn best by hands on experience.
David Kolb created the theory on this type of learning.
Currently I am taking a required computer course in nursing education for my master's degree.
I avidly agree that it is crucial to have hands on learning particularly with the computer.
Those of us who are or will be involved in any type of education, from nursery school to post- graduate need to appreciate David Kolb's theory on experiential learning.

Here is an excerpt form the web:
Many of us engaged in professional learning have a broad understanding of the work of David Kolb. His highly influential book entitled 'Experiential Learning: Experience as the source of learning and development' was first published in 1984 since when his ideas have had a dramatic impact on the design and development of lifelong learning models. Of course, David Kolb's work can be traced back to that famous dictum of Confucius around 450 BC:
"Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand."
This article aims to help you explore the development of experiential learning from its original proposal into some of its current refinements and applications today, using the World Wide Web (the Internet) as a vast reference library...
A useful place to start this online exploration is David Kolb's own website. Here you need to be careful. There is another and different David Kolb, a professor of philosophy at Bates College, who is a prolific author. The man we seek is the professor of organisational behaviour at Weatherhead School of Management. David A Kolb describes himself as a "contemporary advocate of Experiential Learning". His own professional webpage [now at http://reviewing.co.uk/research/experiential.learning.htm#26] where you can find information about his background, current work and most well known publications - including references to his most well-known subject - experiential learning and learning styles.
The concept of experiential learning explores the cyclical pattern of all learning from Experience through Reflection and Conceptualising to Action and on to further Experience. One of the sites which explores the model and its practical application is http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/experience.htm. This is a very well-known model which now forms the heart of many training and learning events. It also describes the process for recording continuous professional development, through taking time to capture, record and implement learning in our daily work. There are many adaptations and uses of the model. A fascinating one is provided on the Natural Learning website where analogy between this model of learning and organic growth in the plant and gardening worlds is well made: http://www.humanoptions.com/learning.html.

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