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15 Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest –10

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The past weeks have seen a flurry of Web activity – bloggers making predictions for the coming months; retrospections on the year gone by; new product releases; top lists, summary posts being pulled up, and more. Many analysts are predicting 2011 will be the year of the tablet. Is This the Year of the Educational Tablet?

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Where are we at?

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For example, the interest in generative AI seems to be about ways to reduce costs. Explaining the present, let alone predicting the future, is challenging. Never predict anything, particularly the future!”) That is, we could and should be beginning to look at how and why to use technology to facilitate learning appropriately.

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Designing for Learning Impact

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These models give us the ability to predict the outcomes of decisions we make, to give us a good basis to make the right decision. We also have examples that show how these models work in context.

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2024 Trends We’d Like to See

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Yet, it’s also been said “Never predict anything, particularly the future”. When it’s about learning, the science tells us to focus on the performance objective, align meaningful practice, guide decisions with predictive models, and illustrate those models in context via examples. How do we reconcile these disparate trends?

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2024 Learning and Development Trends We’d Like to See

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Yet, it’s also been said “Never predict anything, particularly the future”. When it’s about learning, the science tells us to focus on the performance objective, align meaningful practice, guide decisions with predictive models, and illustrate those models in context via examples. How do we reconcile these disparate trends?

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Learning Technologies 2010 – Day 2 Recap

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Some bits of what Josh shared in his presentation are available in this complimentary report titled Predictions for Corporate Learning and Training Management 2010 (registration required). He used Intel’s example to drive this point home. Source: Predictions for Corporate Learning & Training 2010 by Bersin.

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Considerations for Scenario-Based Learning Design

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All these elements are largely the same for example scenarios. Humans aren’t as predictable as, say, concrete, and as such, anything you do is likely going to have somewhat complex and unpredictable reactions. They need contexts and decisions, but the choice is already made.

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