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New-century guideposts
for tomorrow's teachers, trainers
Bright teachers and trainers around
the world are now preparing for the challenges of the 21st century.
And they're doing it simply: by combining lessons
learned from kindergarten, brain research, show business, advertising, television, music,
dancing, the movies, sports, art, and electronic multimedia.
Above all they're restoring fun to the learning
process.
At Simon Guggenheim School, 11-year-old students from
the poorest district of Chicago, Illinois, have learned to speak fluent Spanish, through
visualization, puppet shows and songs.1
In south-east Asia non-accountants are learning the
principles of accountancy in a two-day accelerated-learning game.2
In Australia, secondary school students have appeared
as French actors in their own videotape production - as a vital part of learning a
three-year foreign-language course in eight weeks.3
In the tiny European State of Liechtenstein, one
trainer has created over 240 games to teach virtually anything - from patent law to
geography, history and physics.4
In Auckland, New Zealand, aspiring Polynesian company
managers have learned the main principles of marketing in only 90 minutes - playing the
Great Pacific Century Marketing Game, with pineapples, bananas and gambling dice.5
Intel, IBM, Apple Computers and Bell Atlantic in the
U.S., The Burton Group and British Airways in the United Kingdom, Shell Oil and Air New
Zealand are among the major companies using similar techniques
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