Mark's Lecture Notes
This site contains the online notes for Mark Treadwell's conference, seminar and workshop presentations. The seminars and these notes are derived from the three electronic texts Mark has recently written. The three texts synthesise the educational transitions being made available through the effectiveness and efficiency gains brought about by the global paradigm shift that is currently taking place in education. For the first time in over 500 years we have the potential to dramatically improve how everyone learns . . . . anything and everything!
Use the menu to the left to navigate to the main lecture notes under each speaking topic
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Whatever!: School Version 2.0: The philosophical and theoretical framework that underpins the transformation to school 2.0 resulting from the paradigm shift in education we are experiencing right now. The paradigm shift is the second one in history with the first being the shift from an oral language centric learning model to a text centric learning model over the past 500 years and now we are seeing the centricity of learning is shifting from text to multimedia and collaborative courtesy of the Internet. (400pp 600 research references 100 diagrams) Status - completed and available from |
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Whatever Next?: The Conceptual Curriculum: This is a global conceptual scaffold mapping the conceptual development of each of the competencies as well as each of the major learning areas. This resource identifies the universal concepts underpinning the competencies and the learning areas. Each concept is broken down into a cognitive developmental sequence covering 5 levels of understanding. The resource comes complete with spreadsheets to map the local content and the instructions on how to create this approach to teaching and learning. (340pp 140 research references 30 diagrams) Status - completed and available from here |
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Whatever! Were we Thinking? How the Brain Learns: This revolutionary text tells the story of how the brain learns and why more intelligent people have a lower ratio of neurons than the less capable. The test reveals a comprehensive model of how the brain learns based on emerging neuroscientific and sociological research. The result of this synthesis is a model is the prediction that the brain runs three semi-autonomous but integrated learning systems: episodic (knowledge/rote), semantic (concepts) and creative (unique ideas). Status - available February 2011 |
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