Dryden book-based radio series now online

Gordon Dryden’s latest book, Unlimited, on “the seven keys to unlock the future” became the theme last week of 18 hours of radio interviews which the author conducted on the RadioLive network.

Now all the interviews are available (without commercials) for replay anywhere in the world, on http://www.thelearningweb.net/

Simply click “radio interviews” on the home page to select any on the list.

They include interviews with Dryden’s co-author, Dutch-born American doctor of education Jeannette Vos; Mexican educational-psychologist Monica Bleiberg, who is currently working with Dryden to produce both a book and an interactive website on how to create a personalized learning profile for youngsters from the first year of life; New Zealand-Austrian academic Barbara Prashnig, author of several books on learning styles; and New Zealand author Adam Hyde, who specializes in self-published books, both online and hard copy.

But authors and publishers may learn most from an instant, online brainstorming between Dryden and Hamilton ideas man Noel Ferguson (of Remarkable Ideas) in which they outline for Hawkes Bay author Patrick Sherrat, how to create an international multimedia market for his books on how to pass exams, including his upcoming “Dummies” book on that subject, to be published this year.

Other interviews, from ideas featured in Unlimited, include riveting ones with Gavin Lennox (of NextSpace); Nick Billowes, a leader in developing clusters of New Zealand “interactive technology” schools; Vicky Buck, the former Mayor of Christchurch, and co-founder of Discovery 1 and Unlimited, relatively new public schools which use all Christchurch as a classroom; and Warren Patterson, formerly principal of New Zealand’s first public school with digital classrooms.

Most interviews stress the need to develop “21st-century multimedia literacy” from early childhood.