School dropout now bestselling education author

STARTA Christchurch school dropout will present aworkshop at ULearn after becoming Rosetta Stone outlet an internationalbestselling educational author.Well known to many for hisradio and broadcasting work Gordon Dryden will speak todelegates at ULearn about the The seven keys to unlock thefuture of learning from his latest bookUnlimited.ULearn09 is an educational conferencefocusing on innovative teaching and learning for the 21stcentury organised by CORE Education that attracts about 2000delegates and features 400 national and internationalspeakers.CORE Educations director of development NickBillowes said Gordon Dryden was an engaging speaker and hisrange of insights across the spectrum of innovativeeducation had won him much acclaim. He is a proud andunashamed advocate for the quality educational opportunitieswithin New Zealand . We are lucky to have such a highcalibre of speakers in New Zealand to be able to tap into.Gordon will be well worth listening to along with the manytalented speakers we have on the programme, Mr Billowessaid. Rosetta Stone Arabic Dryden is so passionate about his latest book he hasco-authored with American doctor of education Jeanette Vosthat he is giving away a copy to everyone attending theconference.The book Unlimited and subtitled Thenew learning revolution and the seven keys to unlock itis named after a Christchurch school of the samename.Students at the Unlimited high school, and itsassociated Discovery One primary school, use all ofChristchurch as their classroom as they followpersonalised learning pathways, Dryden said. This is asimilar philosophy to my own that everyone has a differentpotential to be great at something and it is up toschools to help find that something and develop it, usingthe entire world as their classroom, throughout life, hesaid. Dryden, who completed his primary schooling atWaltham, Phillipstown and New Brighton schools in the 1940s,dropped out of Christchurch West High School (now HagleyHigh) after only one year. I really wanted to be ajournalist so I wanted to learn shorthand and typing butback then boys werent allowed to do it, so I left, hesaid.However, after dropping out of school he did notgive up and the world became his classroom. He went on tobecome a well known broadcast journalist and bestsellingeducational author. In 1993 he met Dr Vos at an educationalconference. When they both realised they were working onsimilar things a collaboration was started -- Dryden wasediting 150 hours Rosetta Stone French of professional videotape, on thatsubject, down to six one-hour New Zealand televisiondocumentaries; and Vos had just completed a seven-yearresearch program on the same subject for her doctorate. Their first work together produced the book LearningRevolution which went on to sell 10 million copies inChina within seven months and has now been translated intotwenty different languages.Dryden has not long returnedfrom a series of presentations and television interviews inMexico, where Unlimited will shortly be published inSpanish.While overseas [ Rosetta Stone Software ] he also made a pitch to the UnitedNations to use New Zealand schools as a role model forother countries to help bridge the gap between rich andpoor.