The Brain Tools Program that constructs Brains: More invasive than brain
surgery
Lester W. Hardwick, Educational Consultant & Donna Stephens, Barrier
Reef Institute of TAFE
In the 21st Century, The Global
Information Age, catch phrases like, Smart State, The Clever Country, Work
Smarter not Harder, Life-Long Learning, Proactive Behaviour and recently
Knowledge Nation are continuously bantered around by politicians and economist
yet none have gone beyond words to show how to learn or teach this Proactive
Behaviour. Back to Basics has seen Governments lowering our standards to ensure
everyone can reach the bar. Success today is determined not only by information
access (learned information and learned behaviour), but also by information
manipulation skills (learning information and learning new behaviours). As the
nature of global change has become immediate, accelerating, discontinuous,
multi-directional and increasingly complex there is a need to skill people in a
basic set of tools for success through the proactive manipulation of
information. This Brain Tools Course has been developed to satisfy this global
need. It is designed for use by Trainers and Teachers in Educational,
Industrial and Personal Development settings. The Brain Tools Course is the
first training program in Proactive Behaviour. We can deliver a motivated,
proactive population that can embrace and move with change. We will then have a
Smart State, A Clever Country, A Knowledge Nation and lead Australia into the
21st century. The Brain Tools program trains participants in the thinking
skills for life-long learning and draws on current brain theories.
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