Clive on Learning

MAY 1, 2006

I got my first iPod at Xmas 2004 and was completely happy with it. My old iPod broke down and presented me with a little icon with a frowning face. That's until the new ones arrived with colour screens and video capability. It's a good job Apple products are so unreliable. Anyway, a blessing.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Most learning does not require you to be face-to-face with others – just like you happily listen to music on your iPod, watch sport on TV or films at the cinema – but some does. While face-to-face learning will increasingly become the special case rather than the default, it will still have a valuable role to play.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2013

You can consume the contents of books, DVDs and iPods – or their online equivalents – whenever you want; you have similar flexibility when you communicate using email, forums, SMS and social networks. Asynchronous media work at your pace – there is no requirement for you to be ‘in synch’ with anyone else.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 9, 2011

A great deal of your media consumption is asynchronous - under your time control - using iPods, hard disk video recorders, streaming media and the like. In fact, with all the rush of modern working life, you're probably finding it increasingly impractical to watch TV or listen to radio at the times at which the programmes are broadcast.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 24, 2011

No we are not, no more than using an iPod has turned us away from listening to music, i.e. on vinyl, tape or CD. This confusion leads to all sorts of emotional outpourings, mainly by those who believe that by turning books digital we are depriving future generations of the joy of reading.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 22, 2010

When you consider the ubiquity of the iPod and the number of iPhone and MacBook users out there, this is providing Apple with a host of new potential customers for their other products. Owning an iPad had a much lower impact on people’s intentions to go on and buy a netbook (32%) or MP3 player (29%).

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Now no-one doubts the usefulness and the pervasiveness of cell phones, Blackberries, iPods and PDAs, but to view these as serious learning devices has, until now, taken some imagination. That clicked with me and led me to attend a later session with Leslie Kirshaw, called Fun & Easy iPod Training. This worked fine too.

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