An edition of The learning revolution
(1999)
The learning revolution
to change the way the world learns
Rev. & updated international ed.
by Gordon Dryden and Jeannette Vos
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Subjects
Self-organizing systems, Study skills, Learning ability, Learning, Success, Educational innovations, Psychology of Learning, Education, Learning, Psychology of, Learning (Psychology), Methods Of Instruction And Study (General), Education / Teaching, Do-It-Yourself, Students & Student Life, General| Edition | Availability |
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The learning revolution: to change the way the world learns
1999, The Learning Web
in English
- Rev. & updated international ed.
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The Learning Revolution
September 1999, Jalmar Press
Hardcover
in English
- 2nd edition
1929284004 9781929284009
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Book Details
Table of Contents
1. The future: The 16 major trends that will shape tomorrow's world
The age of instant communication
A world without economic borders
Four leaps to a one-world economy
Internet commerce and learning
The new service society
The marriage of big and small
The new age of leisure
The changing shape of work
Women in leadership
Your amazing brain rediscovered
Cultural nationalism
The growing underclass
The active aging of the population
The new do-it-yourself boom
Cooperative enterprise
The triumph of the individual.
2. Why not the best?: The 13 steps needed for a 21st century learning society
The new role of electronic communications
Learn computers and the Internet
Dramatic improvement needed in parent education
Early childhood health-service priorities
Early childhood development programs
You can catch up at any stage
Catering to every individual learning style
Learning how to learn and learning how to think
Just what should be taught at school?
Learning on four levels
A threefold purpose for study
Just where should we teach?
Keep the mind open, the communication clear.
3. Meet your amazing brain
You're the owner of the world's most powerful computer
Your four brains in one
Neurons, dendrites, glial cells and insulating system
Your many different intelligence centers
The two sides of your brain
How your brain stores information
Your four separate wavelengths
Your brain runs on oxygen and nutrients
Simple tips on brain food
Your emotional intelligence is vital
The body and mind as one.
4. A do-it-yourself guide: The first 20 steps to learn anything much faster, better and more easily
Start with the lessons from sports
Dare to dream and imagine your future
Set a specific goal and set deadlines
Get an enthusiastic mentor
Start with the big picture first
Ask!
Seek out the main principle
Find three best books written by practical achievers
Relearn how to read faster, better, more easily
Reinforce with pictures and sound
Learn by doing
Draw mind maps instead of taking linear notes
Easy ways to retrieve what you have learned
Learn the art of relaxed alertness
Practice
Review and reflect
Use linking tools and memory pegs
Have fun, play games
Teach others
Take an accelerated learning course.
5. How to think for great ideas: New program to teach yourself and students creative thinking
Define your problem
Define your ideal solution and visualize it
Gather all the facts
Break the pattern
Go outside your own field
Try various combinations
Use all your senses
Switch off-let it simmer
Use music or nature to relax
Sleep on it
EureKa! It pops out
Recheck it.
6. Right from the start: A sensible guide for producing better, brighter babies.
7. The vital years: How to enrich your child's intelligence from birth to ten
The vital importance of step-by-step movement
Use your common sense
Build on the five senses
Use the whole world as your classroom
The great art of communication
Parents as first teachers
Parents in preschool centers
Continue the same fun-filled approach at school.
8. The secret heart of learning: How to program for success in education as in business.
9. True learning: the fun-fast way
New-century guideposts for tomorrow's teachers, trainers
Putting it all together
The Simon Guggenheim school experiment
Fluent French in eight weeks
The army learns a foreign language in record time
An accelerated integrative learning teacher
What's held up the big breakthroughs?.
10. Do it in style
How to find your own learning style and use your many intelligences
Determining your learning style
How you take in information
How you organize and process information
The conditions that affect your learning ability
Physical and biological needs that effect learning
How to determine students' preferred learning styles
Your unique working style
Four tips of thinking style
Test your own thinking style
The implications for schools and individuals.
11. Catching up quick at school
The world's greatest catch-up programs and why they work
The mind-body connection and the mind-brain connection
Specialized kinesiology
Doman-Palmer-Niklasson-Hartigan models
The ball/stick/bird method
Catching up at spelling
Back writing for mirror-writing problems
New Zealand breakthroughs
The four-minute reading program
TARP: the tape-assisted reading program
Peer tutoring
The Look Listen method
New Zealand's reading recovery program
Personal key vocabularies
Beginning school mathematics
Computerized catch-ups
The SEED mathematics program
Three medical educational programs.
12. Solving the dropout dilemma
How to get high on education and not on drugs, gangs and crime
Using Japan's business methods to improve school
Integrated studies use the world as a classroom
Group study and big picture techniques
Six-week courses build success step by step
SuperCamp brings it all together.
13. Planning tomorrow's schools: The 12 steps to transform a nation's education system
Schools as lifelong, year-round community resource centers
Ask your customers first
Guarantee customer satisfaction
Cater to all intelligence traits and learning styles
Use the world's best teaching techniques
Invest in your key resource: teachers
Make everyone a teacher as well as a student
Plan a four-part curriculum
Change the assessment system
Use tomorrow's technology
Use the entire community as a resource
For everyone: the right to choose.
14. Tomorrow's business world
Big growth opportunities for the learning organization
Electronic multimedia opportunities
Accelerated learning business opportunities
Selling services and training with your products
The company as a learning organization
The school or college as a business venture.
15. Just do it!: How any country can lead the learning revolution, and so can you
The Singapore centralized leadership model
The decentralized New Zealand model
The new Swedish models
The certification model
Corporate leadership models
The give-it-away model
The Internet selling model
The business-teacher-multimedia model
The Foundation model
The international conference model
The learning organization model
The cluster model
The Chinese back-to-your-roots model
Invent your own model.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 514-537) and index.
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