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Kevin Wheeler: How Gen Y Learns

Jay Cross

They watch play computer games, watch movies on the Internet, have made YouTube their favorite destination." Jay Cross ‘s insight: Right on, Kevin. I love this: "Gen Y, those in their twenties now, are born of bits and bytes. They hardly read. " "This generation is the one that will redefine learning.

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Jane Hart’s Top 100 Learning Tools

Jay Cross

I tap YouTube for entertainment and publishing videos. YouTube also showed me what we wrong with my fridge and taught me how to create 300 dpi imagery with Photoshop, Flickr. As movie editors go, this one’s simple as can be. They are very useful when I’m trying to get different perspectives on a concept.

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Flipping Corporate Learning

Jay Cross

First, we see that video content is engaging to students — many of whom grew up on YouTube — and easy for instructors to produce. Dan Pink thinks we should flip not only schooling but also publishing, the movie business, human resources, and office space. What can we learn from these successes? Business has changed.

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Reflecting on the first half of 2009

Jay Cross

Now paying more attention to editing and sequencing on television and movies. YouTube /jakeross1. Santillana del Mar and Bilbao, Spain. Shaved off beard. Decided to learn to shoot video. Hired a tutor. Learning to edit. Perception is reality. And it is not that tough to manipulate. togetherLearn went online. Spring 2009. eLearning.

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Learning = getting the job done

Jay Cross

Today’s corporate learning environments look more like YouTube than a corporate course catalog. So, what do Twitter, You Tube, Facebook, WordPress, American Idol, and movie documentaries like Super Size Me have in common with e-Learning 2.0? So they turn to social learning environments as the solution. David Mallon. Cahlan Sharp.

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Dawn of the Un-book

Jay Cross

We need a process that outlasts the moment - a movie in place of a photograph. "I Today's activist readers pluck information from the blogosphere and YouTube and their friends on Facebook and MySpace. Traditional books are snapshots of that stream. The swifter the stream, the shorter the life of the book. A book is an event.