Learning new things is what I love the most. I ordered a couple of books that I received yesterday.
One teaches how to make audio and video podcast, another book teaches how to use Photoshop cs 3 this a program I use very often but I want to get better. I’m also learning how to use a program called Premiere CS3 to do video editing and I have that book called “Acting for the camera”.
I’m also learning a bit of Chinese and few other things. So I have quite a lot of stuffs to learn.

The very young kids of today are already life long learners and they learn a lot of interesting things. There is a example in the book The New Learning Revolution by Gordon Dryden (sold 10 million copies in China)

“When 8 Beijing-based professors of education visited Sherwood primary school in New Zealand, they were greeted by an 8 years old Korean lad. A year earlier he couldn’t speak a word of English. But this morning he welcomed them in English, which they spoke. And took them into the school Expresso coffee bar and showed them his multimedia presentation on the history of New Zealand – in both English and Maori. It included a video he had shot himself, and edited using Apple Imovie editing software template. And with animations he’d also created himself inside another digital template.”

He is only 8 years old, what he will do when he will be 20, 30 ?
I remember I worked with the image editor Photoshop and I was stuck on something, I passed it to a 14 years friend, he resolved my problem in minutes. I know another one who is video editing genius. Those are great skills to have, at least for me, they are so much things to learn out there and not exclusively related to technology.

Gordon Dryden introduced the metaphor of the student as a ‘curious questioning journalist’, searching the world to explore, interpret, and express ideas about issues that attract them.

Gordon believes it is not possible ‘to take schools designed in the 19th Century into the 21st Century.

“Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select — doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.” J. Watson

You can read Gordon the first 34 pages of Gordon book at TheLearningWeb

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