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The Lost Art of Learning

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What had been a very personal human interaction for 200,000 years – learning – became an impersonal, dehumanized distraction. What we really needed to learn disappeared into a curriculum dominated by ‘school boards’ and then handed to ‘teachers’. One-to-many. Education Future of education'

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The New Metric: Compound Learning Rate

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I told him it was a person who knew a lot about something and learned more everyday. A few weeks ago, my nephew asked me what the word “expert” means. When I answered, he nodded and asked “so am I an expert about superheroes yet?” It made me think about how that question would translate [.].

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Storytelling Tips from NPR

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There is a lot of advice, information and great books (I personally have always referred to my old marked-up copy of Roger Schank’s Tell Me a Story) about the art of storytelling. We always find a way to use them in our programs, since I think they are among the most powerful and hardwired ways [.].

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The Real Meaning of mLearning

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The mobile web has eradicated any wired person’s dilemma whether to be offline in the real world, or online and stuck in one location (an office cube, a living room, or worse, the basement). Offline is now online, and online is offline. mLearning will be the driver for Learning 2.0.

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Learning About learning

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It also introduced me to a great new blog -aconventional – which I can add to my RSS and get my weekly personal digest. [.]. I liked it because it distilled a lot of information into a neat 10-minute video.

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Learning Defined?

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Here’s two from me now it’s your turn … The Oxford English Dictionary defines knowledge as (i) expertise and skills acquired by a person through experience or education or (ii) the awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation.

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