The New Learning Revolution 3rd EditionThis is the definitive book about the biggest changes in education, schooling and teaching since the school classroom was invented almost 300 years ago. The vision and power of the original Learning Revolution remains, but the authors now address current developments such as: how instant information and interactive technology are finally forcing a complete rethink of everything we've ever believed about education how new interlocking networks are creating dramatic new models for learning how new teaching methods are revolutionizing schooling in pockets around the world. |
Contents
Preface | 12 |
Foreword by Sir Christopher Ball | 16 |
Introduction | 19 |
The converging revolutions | 39 |
The converging revolutions | 45 |
The systems revolution | 47 |
Not only instant but free | 53 |
A world without economic borders | 57 |
The teachyourself revolution | 185 |
Start with the big picture first | 191 |
faster better more easily | 197 |
Learn by doing | 203 |
Practise practise practise | 213 |
The creative revolution | 221 |
The startright revolution | 251 |
The earlychildhood revolution | 265 |
Internet commerce and learning | 65 |
The new service society | 69 |
The marriage of big and small | 71 |
The new age of leisure | 73 |
The changing shape of work | 75 |
Women in leadership | 77 |
Cultural nationalism | 79 |
Removing the poverty trap | 81 |
The new demographics | 83 |
Doityourself learning and health | 87 |
The network revolution | 91 |
The new framework for learning | 107 |
Your seven interlinked learning networks | 109 |
Your internal genetic and neural network | 111 |
Your personal learning network | 113 |
New interactive information networks | 127 |
Your creative network | 129 |
Your talent network | 133 |
Organisation networks | 135 |
New global learning networks | 137 |
The talent revolution | 141 |
The vital importance of stepbystep movement | 275 |
Build on all the senses | 281 |
Parents as first teachers | 289 |
Parents in preschool centres | 295 |
The teaching revolution | 307 |
Putting it all together | 339 |
The learningstyles revolution | 351 |
The catchup revolution | 377 |
The high school revolution | 411 |
Businessschool partnership academies | 417 |
Projectbased learning takes off | 423 |
Integrated studies use the world as a classroom | 433 |
The corporate revolution | 439 |
The digital revolution | 457 |
How to reinvent the world | 483 |
Chapter reference notes | 516 |
Acknowledgments and thanks | 524 |
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Author biographies 543 | |
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