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The scarcity of attention rule

The Learning Circuits

Frankly it scares me how many people take the Internet at face value. Yes, Google, Wikipedia, blogs etc are all great sources but there is little in way of context to help judge it's value. Jay Cross says that 80% of learning is informal and I wonder how much of that informal learning is being done by Internet searching.

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Bob Little – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

Moreover, by using curation tools such as Twitter, Yammer, Skype and other texting tools, as well as Facebook, social/informal learning is progressing at a pace. Open content is a growing feature of the market, as people search for information, knowledge and learning that they need in order to complete a specific task.