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Digital Immigrants Zero, Digital Natives Won

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If that scares you then you are a Digital Immigrant and should be scared. Learning Digital Immigrants Digital Natives Older Workers' Let me repeat myself; training as we knew it is becoming irrelevant.

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Crossing the Analog Digital Gap

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I’ve written several posts about the evolution of education, especially from the analog past to the digital present and future. My own experience was real a wake-up call. I bought a new car a many thousands of miles ago and had a lot of music I wanted to hear from my cassette tapes. The new [.].

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Inside the Crystal Ball: Education and the Future

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Children are the future, and their education needs to be part of that future, woven into the web of the digital world, not stuck in the rut of the industrial economy we are leaving behind. This really summed it up for me … “We’re still teaching our kids using a 20th-century paradigm, but many visionaries–like […].

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Only Smart Companies Will Win

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The change to digital technology is so profound, so dramatic that it can be compared to the invention of the printing press in 1450 or Edison’s success in making electric lighting commercially viable in the 1880s. We are only now beginning to see the changes. Today, it’s an absolute necessity. Learning Culture'

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The Two Biggest Trends in Education

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Two words sun them up: Digitization Disintermediation. From a TNW article June 8, 2012 Matt Brian A Swiss newspaper, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) decided to publish online only – digitization – and celebrated [.]. I often write about what I believe are the reasons underlying the changes we see happening everyday.

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Another Big Plus: Learning Cultures Employ Bi-Directional Models

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One of the most significant advantages a learning culture offers is the ability to be constantly managing, maintaining and updating knowledge in their digital repositories or knowledgebases. In a learning culture the traditional corporate silos are no longer a barrier to learning.

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The Birth of the Global Mind

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I was a young researcher at Digital Equipment Corporation and had been working on DECnet, the world’s first corporate Internet. In the year 1989, I was standing at the end of a pier in Provincetown, Massachusetts looking out at the sunrise over the Atlantic with my good friend Jacques. I remember turning to my friend [.].

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