The learning revolution
Subtitle: to change the way the world learns
By: Gordon Dryden and Jeannette Vos
Contributors: Vos, Jeannette, 1943-
Edition: Rev. & updated international ed.
Publisher: The Learning Web
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Torrance, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9781929284009
Subjects: Self-organizing systems; Study skills; Learning ability; Learning; Success; Educational innovations; Psychology of Learning
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 514-537) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The future: The 16 major trends that will shape tomorrow's world; title: The age of instant communication; title: A world without economic borders; title: Four leaps to a one-world economy; title: Internet commerce and learning; title: The new service society; title: The marriage of big and small; title: The new age of leisure; title: The changing shape of work; title: Women in leadership; title: Your amazing brain rediscovered; title: Cultural nationalism; title: The growing underclass; title: The active aging of the population; title: The new do-it-yourself boom; title: Cooperative enterprise; title: The triumph of the individual.; title: 2. Why not the best?: The 13 steps needed for a 21st century learning society; title: The new role of electronic communications; title: Learn computers and the Internet; title: Dramatic improvement needed in parent education; title: Early childhood health-service priorities; title: Early childhood development programs; title: You can catch up at any stage; title: Catering to every individual learning style; title: Learning how to learn and learning how to think; title: Just what should be taught at school?; title: Learning on four levels; title: A threefold purpose for study; title: Just where should we teach?; title: Keep the mind open, the communication clear.; title: 3. Meet your amazing brain; title: You're the owner of the world's most powerful computer; title: Your four brains in one; title: Neurons, dendrites, glial cells and insulating system; title: Your many different intelligence centers; title: The two sides of your brain; title: How your brain stores information; title: Your four separate wavelengths; title: Your brain runs on oxygen and nutrients; title: Simple tips on brain food; title: Your emotional intelligence is vital; title: The body and mind as one.; title: 4. A do-it-yourself guide: The first 20 steps to learn anything much faster, better and more easily; title: Start with the lessons from sports; title: Dare to dream and imagine your future; title: Set a specific goal and set deadlines; title: Get an enthusiastic mentor; title: Start with the big picture first; title: Ask!; title: Seek out the main principle; title: Find three best books written by practical achievers; title: Relearn how to read faster, better, more easily; title: Reinforce with pictures and sound; title: Learn by doing; title: Draw mind maps instead of taking linear notes; title: Easy ways to retrieve what you have learned; title: Learn the art of relaxed alertness; title: Practice; title: Review and reflect; title: Use linking tools and memory pegs; title: Have fun, play games; title: Teach others; title: Take an accelerated learning course.; title: 5. How to think for great ideas: New program to teach yourself and students creative thinking; title: Define your problem; title: Define your ideal solution and visualize it; title: Gather all the facts; title: Break the pattern; title: Go outside your own field; title: Try various combinations; title: Use all your senses; title: Switch off-let it simmer; title: Use music or nature to relax; title: Sleep on it; title: EureKa! It pops out; title: Recheck it.; title: 6. Right from the start: A sensible guide for producing better, brighter babies.; title: 7. The vital years: How to enrich your child's intelligence from birth to ten; title: The vital importance of step-by-step movement; title: Use your common sense; title: Build on the five senses; title: Use the whole world as your classroom; title: The great art of communication; title: Parents as first teachers; title: Parents in preschool centers; title: Continue the same fun-filled approach at school.; title: 8. The secret heart of learning: How to program for success in education as in business.; title: 9. True learning: the fun-fast way; title: New-century guideposts for tomorrow's teachers, trainers; title: Putting it all together; title: The Simon Guggenheim school experiment; title: Fluent French in eight weeks; title: The army learns a foreign language in record time; title: An accelerated integrative learning teacher; title: What's held up the big breakthroughs?.; title: 10. Do it in style; title: How to find your own learning style and use your many intelligences; title: Determining your learning style; title: How you take in information; title: How you organize and process information; title: The conditions that affect your learning ability; title: Physical and biological needs that effect learning; title: How to determine students' preferred learning styles; title: Your unique working style; title: Four tips of thinking style; title: Test your own thinking style; title: The implications for schools and individuals.; title: 11. Catching up quick at school; title: The world's greatest catch-up programs and why they work; title: The mind-body connection and the mind-brain connection; title: Specialized kinesiology; title: Doman-Palmer-Niklasson-Hartigan models; title: The ball/stick/bird method; title: Catching up at spelling; title: Back writing for mirror-writing problems; title: New Zealand breakthroughs; title: The four-minute reading program; title: TARP: the tape-assisted reading program; title: Peer tutoring; title: The Look Listen method; title: New Zealand's reading recovery program; title: Personal key vocabularies; title: Beginning school mathematics; title: Computerized catch-ups; title: The SEED mathematics program; title: Three medical educational programs.; title: 12. Solving the dropout dilemma; title: How to get high on education and not on drugs, gangs and crime; title: Using Japan's business methods to improve school; title: Integrated studies use the world as a classroom; title: Group study and big picture techniques; title: Six-week courses build success step by step; title: SuperCamp brings it all together.; title: 13. Planning tomorrow's schools: The 12 steps to transform a nation's education system; title: Schools as lifelong, year-round community resource centers; title: Ask your customers first; title: Guarantee customer satisfaction; title: Cater to all intelligence traits and learning styles; title: Use the world's best teaching techniques; title: Invest in your key resource: teachers; title: Make everyone a teacher as well as a student; title: Plan a four-part curriculum; title: Change the assessment system; title: Use tomorrow's technology; title: Use the entire community as a resource; title: For everyone: the right to choose.; title: 14. Tomorrow's business world; title: Big growth opportunities for the learning organization; title: Electronic multimedia opportunities; title: Accelerated learning business opportunities; title: Selling services and training with your products; title: The company as a learning organization; title: The school or college as a business venture.; title: 15. Just do it!: How any country can lead the learning revolution, and so can you; title: The Singapore centralized leadership model; title: The decentralized New Zealand model; title: The new Swedish models; title: The certification model; title: Corporate leadership models; title: The give-it-away model; title: The Internet selling model; title: The business-teacher-multimedia model; title: The Foundation model; title: The international conference model; title: The learning organization model; title: The cluster model; title: The Chinese back-to-your-roots model; title: Invent your own model.