Online Schoolbook GOLD DUST

Enjoy the magnificent imagery of the GOLD DUST fantasy tale.

A book is a book. But only by the interdisciplinary integration in the Internet, as integration into a higher system, is created something entirely new .

In each book you can pack topics, demanded by the curriculum, but only the 3-dimensional view on a topical focus opens up a new intellectual dimension beyond the factual knowledge. A cognition jump is possible.

Peer-reviewed educational content to implement in your classroom

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an entirely new way to learn and an example for sustainable Education. We hope that you enjoy using and adapting the resources in your practice.

Interactive online book for teacher Teacher's Guide Education Level: K-12

Interactive online book for students Einstein Wiki

This peer-reviewed [7] [8] mobile learning content is written under an open license [9] and gives everyone the freedom to use or modify the material to suit his or her own needs.

It would be great to see how the new typ of interactive textbook “GOLD DUST” and the EinsteinWiki work. You are welcome to share your thoughts in the discussion page.

Dynamic learning

The Papillon-method makes books come alive and connects you with the world. You can embed multimedia such as photos, videos, and audio files directly into the book. That’s a cool outstanding feature for textbooks. Widely scattered information are ordered by theme and are brought into a coherent form.

Step I

Read chapter by chapter (1-33) and discuss topics close to your heart. Return often to experience the magical adventure and find your interest when you read, click and learn [10].

Promoting Reading is Everyone’s Obligation

Step II

• The keyword (in bold) is the theme. Follow the recommended keywords and explore the world behind the GOLD DUST story. Some learnclicks give you an idea how to discover the theme. All Keywords and educational links are variable and suggestions that you can change.

• Learn in areas of personal interest.

• Make from every simple general topic such as “birds” [11] an advanced research. Span a wide arch of environment up to “twitter” (microblogging).

• The suggested keywords and links show how the method works, then you can deepen the themes with your own links.

Dynamic teaching

The dynamic textbook GOLD DUST inspires teachers and students to adapt collaborative learning strategies in the classroom. Not just to chat, send e-mail, listen to music or search for information it is available, but for the global knowledge acquisition, for education.

Children who correctly master the Internet can benefit from knowledge in an unlimited quantity in order to apply it to their own hobbies, projects and life plans. Internet is an adventure, conquering new worlds, the whole universe in the palm of your hand! Be inspired.

The interactive textbook teaches skills that are needed in a global world, such as interdisciplinary working, good general education, language and orientation ability, emotional intelligence, lifelong learning, thinking in global contexts, combinatorial intelligence, creativity, imagination, learning motivation and media literacy.

Internet literacy is impossible without a minimum level of personal experience in dealing with the technology. Where young people can acquire these skills? A fortuitous result of activities in their leisure time, or all systematically in school? Although we live in a media society no one explains children how to deal appropriately with the media. Through the support of the teacher, the children learn to distinguish important from the unimportant, genuine from spurious and a targeted filtering of information.

Constructionism (learning theory) [12] [13]

Only at the beginning the teacher structure the theme in every detail. Once infected by the spirit of research, students undertake the task of the classical fields of the teacher. Students find their own favorite themes, discover them with links, create their own knowledge planets and add them to the story. Students learn to document and to present their results in context. At the same time students complete their language and their reasoning skills during the public presentation of their project work. The design of a presentation by the use of different media, has an extremely motivating effect.

Learning 3.0: Why Technology Belongs in Every Classroom [14] by MIT World

Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! [15] [16]

Contact info

My name is Hardyna Vedder. Please feel free to add your valuable comments, criticism and ideas in the discussion page. Share your ideas to improve and refine project details and contact - info@einstein21.org

External links

• Einstein21
• Connexions, Rice University, Houston, USA
• MERLOT, California State University, USA
• ScientificCommons, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
• Survey with regard, University of Technology, Berlin, Germany
• OER Commons - Open Educational Resources
• Project Video
• "Papillon" Homepage

• "Digital storytelling is both... high tech and high touch."
• Schools ‘failing to fire the imagination’