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Book Contents	Page
Author biography: Gordon Dryden	8
How to quit school at age 14 and end up writing the top-selling book on learning
Author biography: Jeannette Vos	10
The frustrated teacher who spent seven years researching a better way
Title page	12
Contents	13
Preface by Gordon Dryden	18
Welcome to the new world, with unlimited access to unlimited opportunities
Foreword by Jeannette Vos	20
The more the new technology soars, the more the need for holistic balance
Introduction	22
*History’s newest revolution and the seven keys to unlock it*
1. It’s personal: For everyone, everywhere, any time, in your own way	25
2. It’s interactive: Easy-to-use templates make it simple at any age	26
3. It’s global: The Web owned by no one, but used by almost everyone	27
4. It’s instant: Just in time, when you need it, as you need it	28
5. It’s mainly free: Or nearly free: often one low-cost click at a time	29
6. It’s easily shared: The new world of collaborative networks	30
7. It’s co-creative: To link your talents with multi-talented teams	31
Part one: The future
Chapter one: The converging revolutions	36
*The seven ways Web 2.0 is changing everything, everywhere*
Moore’s Law and Metcalfe’s Law	38
The converging revolutions	39
1. It’s global, national and local at the same time	41
2. It’s instant: any time, anywhere	49
3. It’s open, free or almost free	51
4. It’s mobile as well a personal	54
5. It’s interactive and enjoyable	57
6. It’s co-creative: the new era of mass innovation	61
7. It’s easily shared—with millions	64
Chapter two: The network revolution	68
*A new framework for education in a new networked world*
Some lessons from history	71
The new framework for learning	77
Your seven interlinked networks	78
1. Your internal genetic and neural network	80
2. Your personal learning network	80
3. New interactive information networks	85
4. Your creative network	87
5. Your talent network	88
6. New organization networks	89
7. New global learning networks	91
Part two: Your future
Chapter three: The talent revolution	94
*How to develop your own unique talent through nature, nurture and neurons*
The basic structure of the brain	102
The brain’s main networks	104
1. The sensory networks	104
2. The transmission network	106
3. The physical network	107
4. The emotional, feeling networks	108
5. The social networks	110
6. The biological clock network	111
7. The thinking networks	112
How to unlock the brain’s unlimited power	113
Chapter four: The learning-styles revolution	124
*How to find your own learning style and build on your own unique talent*
Howard Gardner’s multiple-intelligence model	126
Linguistic intelligence or talent	126
Logical-mathematical intelligence or talent	127
Visual-spatial intelligence or talent	128
Musical intelligence or talent	129
Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence or talent	130
Interpersonal intelligence or talent	131
Intrapersonal intelligence or talent	132
Naturalist intelligence or talent	132
The possibility of existential intelligence or talent	133
Determining your learning style	135
How you take in information	135
How you organize and process information	136
Physical and biological needs that affect learning	137
How to determine students’ preferred learning styles	138
Now: online analysis of learning and working styles	139
Four types of thinking styles	139
Different ways to store and retrieve information	141
The implications for home study, schools and teachers	142
Chapter five: The learn-it-yourself revolution	144
*How to take your talent and passion and keep adding other skills and abilities*
1. Start with the lessons from sport	144
2. Dare to dream—and imagine your future	146
3. Set a specific goal—and set deadlines	146
4. Get an enthusiastic mentor—fast	147
5. Start with the big picture first	147
6. Ask—and start with the Web	148
7. Seek out the main principles	150
8. Find the three best books by practical achievers	151
9. Relearn how to read—faster, better, more easily	152
10. Reinforce by pictures and sound	154
11. Learn by doing	155
12. Draw Mind Maps instead of taking linear notes	156
13. Easy ways to retrieve what you’ve learned	157
14. Learn the art of relaxed alertness	158
15. Practise, practise, practise	160
16. Review and reflect	161
17. Use linking tools and memory pegs	161
18. Have fun, play games	162
19. Teach others	162
20. Go digital	163
Chapter six: The creative revolution	164
*A creative thinking course for teachers, students and innovators*
1. Define your problem	167
2. Define your ideal solution and visualize it	167
3. Gather the facts	168
4. Break the pattern	169
5. Go outside your own field	169
6. Play with various combinations	170
7. Sleep on it	171
8. Eureka! It pops out	171
Brainstorming checklist for ideas	173
When you’re looking for a new idea can you . . .	173
What could you substitute?	173
What new combinations can you make?	174
How can you adapt it?	174
What can you magnify or increase?	174
What could you reduce, reverse or eliminate?	174
What new forms can you create?	174
Edward de Bono’s methods	179
Part three: Revolution 1.0
Chapter seven: The early-childhood revolution	182
*How to enrich your child’s learning ability from birth to age eight*
1. The vital importance of step-by-step movement	186
2. Use your common sense	187
3. Build on all your senses	188
4. Use the world as your classroom	188
5. The great art of communication	189
6. Parents as first teachers	192
7. Model early childhood centers	194
Chapter eight: The teaching revolution	200
*The seven keys to effective teaching: the proving grounds to reinvent school*
1. The best “state”	201
Orchestrating the environment	202
Setting the right mood and getting students’ attention	203
Early activity is vital	204
The right brain wavelength	206
Break down the learning barriers	208
Encourage personal goal-setting and learning outcomes	208
Try visualizing your goal	209
Trigger the emotions	209
2. The presentation: through exploration and inquiry	209
Positivity and linking are the first principles	209
Getting the big picture fast	210
Involve all the senses	211
Step out of the lecturing role	211
Plenty of role playing and “identities”	211
Organize plenty of “state changes”	212
Make learning-how-to-learn part of every course	212
The Lozanov concerts	212
3. Thinking about it, and deep memory storage	214
4. Activate to draw out the learning	215
5. Apply	216
6. Review, evaluate and celebrate	216
7. Holographic and holistic teaching	218
Transforming and entire school	218
Chapter nine: The high school revolution	222
*New recipe for secondary school reform: to learn it, do it— in real-life partnerships*
How the best schools succeed	224
1. Captivate the students with real-world interests	225
2. Assign academic work worthy of being showcased	225
Business-school partnerships	226
Singapore shows the way	227
Project-based learning takes off	228
Start with hands-on experience	229
Setting up school companies	230
Integrated studies use the world as a classroom	234
High school business courses	234
Part four: Revolution 2.0
Chapter ten: The co-creative revolution	238
*How the new Open Web will anchor the emerging cyberspace learning era*
1. It’s global	238
2. It’s personal	245
3. It’s interactive	247
4. It’s instant	248
5. It’s free—or nearly free	249
6. It’s easily shared	250
7. It’s co-creative	254
Chapter eleven: The innovation revolution	260
*The seven ways entrepreneurship is building the next big growth industry*
1. Apple typifies the new Youth Web	261
2. Cyworld leads social networking revolution	264
3. Go sell your talent on the Web	264
4. New world of serious learning games	268
5. New directions in corporate training	270
6. Business lessons for education	271
7. Lifelong learning the big opportunity	273
Chapter twelve: The digital revolution	274
*How to use interactive technology as the catalyst to reinvent school*
1. From New Zealand—innovation begins	274
2. The United Kingdom high school model	282
3. Singapore’s networked global curriculum	283
4. The Canadian Master’s Academy	285
5. Mexico’s Thomas Jefferson Institute	286
6. Technology leadership joins holistic learning	287
7. The challenge to extend the lesson to all schools	288
Chapter thirteen: The global revolution	290
*How to unleash the talents of billions to reinvent the world*
1. It’s YOU	291
2. It’s global	295
For early childhood and parenting education	295
A global primary-years curriculum	296
Middle and high school programs	300
3. It’s interactive	302
4. It’s instant	305
5. It’s free or nearly free	305
6. It’s easily shared	305
7. It’s co-creative	306
The best is yet to come	308
Chapter reference notes	310
Authors’ thanks	313
The Unlimited Library	314
Index	317
Publisher and author details	320