“UNLIMITED – The New Learning Revolution”

34 page preview of this very interesting book:

http://www.thelearningweb.net/unlimited-other/unlimited-preview.pdf

By year 2000 half the people on earth had never placed a phone call. Only 12 percent owned mobile phones. In 2009 over half own them: 3.3 billion. 2010, over 4 billiare in use, for the planet’s 6.7 billion people.

‘All of us are surging through the most profound revolution in human history. Its impact is personal, national, global—and, in many ways unlimited. At its core are seven catalysts, now converging and fusing to change the way we live, work, play, learn, teach, think and create—at any age. The keys to unlock that future are simple but revolutionary. Once unlocked, that revolution has the power to unleash the combined talents of millions.’ Introduction, Page 22.

‘Amazingly, 59 million school teachers around the planet work in isolation, mostly in chalkboard classrooms—as if the Web didn’t exist. But at Singapore’s Overseas Family School 3,500 students from over seventy countries not only co-create their vision of the future—they help their teachers digitize lesson plans with Macromedia Flash and computer animations. Now those brilliant lesson-models can be shared free. Chapter thirteen, The global revolution

‘Everyone has the potential to become talented and successful, but in different ways. Every healthy baby is born with 100 billion active brain cells. Each has the ability to sprout at least 10,000 learning-branches. That learning ability soars most from birth to four.’ And that is why, at Mexico’s world-leading Thomas Jefferson Institute, psychologists help parents to work out a specific c learning plan for every child. Chapter three: The talent revolution.