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Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest – 8

Upside Learning

Internet Surpasses Television as Main News Source for Young Adults. This article talks about Pew Center Research study reports, which states that the Internet is now the main national and international news source for people ages 18-29. Read this article to know why some educators say they are more than just a cool new toy.

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Turkey of the Year Awards 2023

eLearning 24-7

If you haven’t heard the latest news, one of the founders was fired, and went over to create a new AI lab at Microsoft (as a separate company). Google Cloud has a model-as-a-service, Amazon has one too. Gemini by Google is expected to be a game-changer too. Good news, the vendor offers it! You want Gen-AI.

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Session Notes: Breaking Down Silos @JD_Dillon #TrainingMag

Learning Visions

With no toys and no budget. Cuz we didn''t have the toys. So now they started using Google Docs. As part of onboarding/new hire groups, he added a Confluence comment thread. He gave those 15 new hires a page. Kind of like a news feed. Then they started Google Plus. So this helped get that buy-in.

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Three Things to Consider for Voice-Over in eLearning

Unboxed

think curated news feeds, AirPods, Google Assistants, etc.). How does that compare to the number who read newspapers or watch the news regularly? It will seem a lot less daunting toy our learners than a big paragraph and we guarantee, if the voice over is written well, it will boost retention.

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Top 11 Learning Technology Trends from LTSF 2019

gomo learning

Cue the example of David’s son looking at YouTube instructional videos for a new toy, while the instructions sat in their box, neglected and still in their plastic wrapping. For me, that included Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, Google Maps (plus journey planner), Spotify, Safari, my phone camera and checking emails.

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Top 11 Learning Technology Trends from LTSF 2019

Leo Learning

Cue the example of David’s son looking at YouTube instructional videos for a new toy, while the instructions sat in their box, neglected and still in their plastic wrapping. For me, that included Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, Google Maps (plus journey planner), Spotify, Safari, my phone camera and checking emails.

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Tools of my trade

Learning with e's

Facebook - I tried several other social networking tools before Facebook , including Myspace and Bebo, and toyed with LinkedIn like everyone else. It's simple and easy to use, and keeps all my important tools, including currency converters, news feeds and language translators in one convenient space.