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2016 Top Tools for Learning

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Google Search: ‘Professor’ Google is still the person I call on whenever I need a quick answer to a question or problem. Google Search and the new generation of successors to Google Glass will herald the end to pub quizzes and memory tests and the dawn of personal external intelligence ecosystems.

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2015 Top Tools for Learning

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My list of top tools for learning in 2015 : Google Search : ‘Professor Google’ is he is known in my house. However, Google has provided a public searchable store of enormous magnitude – larger than anything seen before in humankind history – and is without doubt the most used learning tool by many, if not all, of us.

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Will the App Become the New Classroom?

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(this article first appeared in the Spring 2016 Edition of Training Industry Quarterly) Classroom education emerged in a world of information paucity. In our world of information abundance, Google is the largest educational provider on the planet. Google needs no classrooms. A minority of people could read. The New Classroom?

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The Driving Test: the canary in the mine for formal training?

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I read an article in the 19-20 March 2016 edition of China Daily while in that country. The China Daily article reported (on the basis of data obtained from the Ministry for Public Scrutiny) that China now has more than 300 million drivers, the highest in the world. We’d passed the test, for goodness sake!! It’s worth a read.