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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Textbooks, blackboards, and overhead projectors remain the tools of choice for many teachers, at a time when their students are geared to learn from iPads, PowerPoint, and instant messaging. The result is a lost message, and a lost opportunity. Download the whitepaper ยป Blog this! Properly d.

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Top 100 Tools For Learning 2010 โ€“ C4LPT Survey

Upside Learning

Delicious โ€“ social bookmarking tool. Skype โ€“ instant messaging and VoIP call tool. Facebook โ€“ social networking site. Some observations: The top 10 is like a whoโ€™s who of social and informal learning tools. GoogleDocs – online collaboration tool. Google Reader โ€“ RSS feed reader.

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Some Tools for Social Learning and How they Help Learning

Kapp Notes

Short Text Messaging. Text message that are short bursts sent from a cell phone or a computer directly to another cell phone or computer. Instant messaging is the ability to write a quick message to another person and enter into a dialogue in real-time via only text-based messages. Social Network.

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Change Our Traditional Approach to Education

Kapp Notes

And adding technology hardware is not enough, the next wave in engineering and technology education is to leverage the connectivity of the third millennials and their aptitude for creating content to share with others via web-based and mobile-based social networking tools.

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37% Adults Use Social Networking - Adoption to e-Learning

Vignettes Learning

Social networking is perceived by many adults as waste of time. Financial Post reported that 37% of adults visit social networking sites, 27% who visit FaceBook create a profile. I remember the time when corporate managers where suspicious of instant messaging. This is perhaps changing.

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5 Online Employee Training Tools Every Company Needs to Succeed

KnowledgeCity

Social Networks. The rise in hybrid and remote work have recently increased the popularity of professional social networks like Slack and Workplace. Slack serves as an instant messaging platform with a large number of add-ons for other business products. Workplace is a tool developed by Facebook.

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Emerging Asynchronous Conversation Models

Tony Karrer

However, I've struggled with the problem of destinations vs. social networks and the spread of conversation (see Forums vs. Social Networks ). Quora is a Q&A site nicely integrated with Facebook that has done a good job providing a means to ask questions and get answers. eLearning Technology.