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Top 10 tools that empower learners to develop themselves

Learning Pool

One main reason for the shift to learner-centric learning and development is the unprecedented access to information that modern learners have. And if the answer you want isn’t returned in the list of search results, you can use social media apps to ask someone else for what you need. Information seeking: Twitter and Blogs.

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The 21st Century Curator

ID Reflections

This of course meansthat we should at least be familiar with the basics of curation and thetechnological affordances. This is of course similar to the PKM model suggested byHarold Jarche. The next natural question then is how does one begin tocurate? And here I found Tim Kastelle’s post, Five Forms ofFiltering useful.

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GE TV: An Coppens on Engaging the Brain with Gamification

Growth Engineering

The more you can build on old information and make new connections, the better it will stick. And it will also encourage information-seeking, to go further and look for more information. In our brains we always want to search for meaning and context. ‘Oh, I didn’t know I could use that there.

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