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Recommended Reading Summary: A Chapter of “Emerging Technologies for the Classroom”

Adobe Captivate

Chapter 9: “ Like, Comment, Share: Collaboration and Civic Engagement Within Social Network Sites ,” by Greenhow and Lee, in Emerging Technologies for the Classroom: A Learning Sciences Perspective. Social media and social networking sites allow individuals and groups to collaborate and learn together.

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Give Learners a Voice by Incorporating Social Learning

Adobe Captivate

So much of what we learn comes from informal interactions with the people we know, whether we’re interacting in person or through social media. Here are some ways we can do that: Create communities of practice that either meet in person or virtually. See this article on blended learning.

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Role of L&D in the 21C Workplace

ID Reflections

Proficiency in social media usage – While we would all like to boast about being social media gurus, using it effectively for learning and enabling others to do the same calls for a different understanding of social media. Some of the related skills required to do this are given below.

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Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

This informal learning is facilitated by coaching, mentoring, communities-of-practice, experiments, action-learning and any of a myriad of other methods including the various forms of social media. Although informal, social learning is not casual; in a learning culture it is very intentional and structured.

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"Social Technologies in Business"

bozarthzone

Know what happens when a bunch of your friends get together and assemble the best compilation ever of thinking in the social-social media-collaborative learning-knowledge management-narrating work realms?

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Harnessing the power of SMEs for successful workplace training

Matrix

This is a constructivist approach to learning that involves a mentor rather than a trainer. Read more: How many types of mentoring are there? Since it is very hands on and practical it has a visible immediate ROI, develops problem solving skills, critical and creative thinking. SMEs are very valuable to an organization.

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4 Ways L&D Can Maximize Learning Technology for Hyper-Connected Learners

Instilled

From email and messaging apps to social media and Alexa, it’s rare to feel completely disconnected from technology (without taking what may seem like drastic measures). Capture Tacit Knowledge and Build Communities of Practice. Facilitate informal learning and mentoring. They’re also connected to each other.