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Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange.

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For those of you that use web-based aggregators like Google Reader but have not yet made room for Tweets, Twitter is an aggregator on steroids. Where Facebook and LinkedIn serve mainly as social dashboards for our personal and professional networks, respectively, I see Twitter as a customized information portal.

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Your Brain: The Ultimate Electronic Performance Support System

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This reverie was sparked a few weeks ago when I noticed that I have increasingly stopped reading online news articles to their completion, and have instead begun moving on to the next item as soon as I’ve figured out the main points. . So, are these changes a bad thing?

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The Death of the Traditional Web: Implications for Self-Directed Learning

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Google and everything it represents, is facing the first stages of irrelevancy. The rise of Google-type search and “knowledge at your fingertips” seemed to herald all that was needed for anyone to find the answer to anything. Search engines, once the gatekeepers to the Web, are giving way to Facebook.

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