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Top 10 tools that empower learners to develop themselves

Learning Pool

In-house resources: One Drive and Google Drive. One of the easiest ways of making information available to learners is sharing it on Onedrive or Google Drive. You can place information in a public space but still keep control of it. Information seeking: Twitter and Blogs.

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More on cultural differences and ICT

The Learning Circuits

Google gags them" (my words). They can hardly "Google" to find the answer to a question because receiving a Google results page takes 10 minutes - an average Google "full search" typically takes 90 minutes. In India, students are taught to memorize the full extent of everything they're "given" to learn.

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Why Content Curation Should be in Your Skillset

Jay Cross

And, as Clay Shirky has said: “Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.”. I set up a Google Search for daily news on the topic. and gets reposted to my Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Twitter feeds. It’s one of mine.