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Reading and writing on the iPad

Jay Cross

Book reading strengthened our analytical skills, encouraging us to pursue an observation all the way down to the footnote. Screen reading encourages rapid pattern-making, associating this idea with another, equipping us to deal with the thousands of new thoughts expressed every day.

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Social maps

Jay Cross

Probably this pattern (for my closed blog on Informal Learning) is more representative. Their social maps are the most useful analytic tool in the bunch because they map relationships among your contacts. I imagine it’s because if you Google Google Translate , my post comes up #8 in the results. I don’t get it.

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Working Smarter: Most popular posts of 2011

Jay Cross

patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. Open Learning Analytics: A proposal - George Siemens , December 10, 2011. Working smarter embraces the spirit of agile software, action learning, social networks, and parallel developments in many disciplines.

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195 posts about MOOCs

Jay Cross

Stanford Learning Analytics Summer Institute GEORGE SIEMENS | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2012. Open Course: Learning Analytics and Knowledge GEORGE SIEMENS | MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2013. patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. Beyond eBooks CLARK QUINN | MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2012.