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The Conceptual Era and the Revolution

This revolutionary text describes an education system that meets the emergent 21st century needs where all school are able to transform their practices to meet the challenges of an era where knowledge and new ideas are increasing exponentially.

The text contains 10 sections with over 390 pages, over 120 diagrams and over 590 references. The "text" is available via downloading the entire book from this site or downloading individual sections. The text can also be sent to you via a CD ROM or you can purchase the book itself. Click here to take up any of these options.

Section/Reading	Section/Reading	Section/Chapter
Section 1. The New Education Paradigm 1. The Upper Limit Hypothesis 2. The New Education Paradigm	Section 5. A Complete Change 13. Our Life; Our Learning 14. Strategic Planning 15. Managing the Transitions 16. Change to Action 17. Quantum Professional Learning	Section 9. Wisdom 34. Attitudes, Values & Qualities: Principles 35. With Privilege Comes Responsibility
Section 2. The "Nouvelle Compréhension" 3. The "Nouvelle Compréhension" 4. The Mediated World 5. Nodal Networks	Section 6. National & School Infrastructure 18 National Infrastructure 19. School Infrastructure 20. Online Learning Environments 21. Copyright Anyone? 22. Digital Learning Content 23. The 21st Century Library	Section 10. A Day in the Life 36. Our World 37. Young & Stressed 38. Where to Now? 39. Epilogue
Section 3. So Who Needs This? 6. Why is Understanding so Important 7. Where Are We Now? 8. Creativity Workers: Not Just Singing & Dancing	Section 7. A new Curriculum A New Curriculum: Summary 24. Establishing Key Competencies 25. The Global Curriculum 26. Assessment within the New Paradigm 27. e-Portfolios	Section 11. Appendices & Executive Summary 40. Appendices Appendix 1: The Assumption
Section 4. The Transitions 9. The Transitions for Educators 10. Inquiry Learning 11. It's the Question that Matters 12. Your Brain is your Brand	Section 8. So What is Thinking? 28. A Worldview Approach 29. A Thinking Framework: Neuroscience 101 30. A Thinking Framework: Intelligence 31. A Thinking Framework: The Human factor 32. Thinking Principles 33. Teaching for Transfer	Section 12: The Executive Summary

The conceptual era and the emergence of School v2.0 will provide educators and learners a truly transformed teaching and learning environment where the outcome of the learning experiences will be to understand the core concepts within a framework of competency and wisdom. The capacity for lifelong learning will require the wise application of creative and innovative ideas born of the imagination and willingness to explore new conceptual intersections.

How do we prepare learners for this new world . . .

. . . download the framework which highlights in detail the emergence of the new education paradigm and the transformational impact it will have on schools across the globe.