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Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange.

Dashe & Thomson

Although Twitter has a relatively small user base (approximately 200 million users compared to Facebook’s 600 million), these are your early adopters, your super-users, your friends that seem to know a little about everything and your friends that know absolutely everybody. Twitter is a marketer’s dream.

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Brandon Hall Network - Back from the Dead?

Tony Karrer

I would actually like to believe that the community of people interested in the use of technology for learning and performance support would form a vibrant online community, exchanging ideas, making connections, etc. And, it's worse when you are targeting a particular community that doesn't have a great adoption rate.

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Teens, Tweens and Social Networking

Kapp Notes

So as schools struggle to eliminate technology from the hands of students, as I have written about before ( Hire that Kid! perhaps they should be looking at the positive aspects of the technology and deciding how to incorporate the technology into the curriculum in a meaningful and relevant manner.

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The future of eLearning, part 2

eFront

We’re also going to tell you what’s probably going to happen with virtual reality technologies and wearables. Social networking is not some new category of computer use that Facebook (or Friendster/MySpace/Twitter/etc) invented. Another major issue to the adoption of VR for eLearning will be the lack of content. Social learning.

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The future of eLearning, part 2

eFront

We’re also going to tell you what’s probably going to happen with virtual reality technologies and wearables. Social networking is not some new category of computer use that Facebook (or Friendster/MySpace/Twitter/etc) invented. Another major issue to the adoption of VR for eLearning will be the lack of content. Social learning.

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Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace

Janet Clarey

In a nutshell, my main points: The “younger” generation (&# millennials&# born in the 80s-90s) are not [automatic] masters of technology and often use a limited range of technologies (i.e., Don’t ground transformation of education arguments around “younger” generations’ expectations and patterns of technology use. Brown, J.S.

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Social Grid Follow-up

Tony Karrer

Couple of places that discuss adaptation of memory and technology Memorizing Facts Better Memory In Your Outboard Brain Knows All , Clive Thompson talks about how our need to remember is changing. Q : Do you feel LinkedIn Answers is as valuable for introducing a completely new technology vs. something that people are familiar with?