The learning revolution : to change the way the world learns
- Publication date
- 1999
- Topics
- Learning, Learning, Psychology of, Educational innovations, Success, Learning ability, Study skills, Self-organizing systems
- Publisher
- Torrance, Calif. : The Learning Web
- Collection
- inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; china
- Digitizing sponsor
- Internet Archive
- Contributor
- Internet Archive
- Language
- English
Includes bibliographical references (p. 514-537) and index
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
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
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