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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. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS?

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How Mobile Apps Can Act as Social Learning Tools

Origin Learning

Instant messaging, e-mails, texts, social media interactions- all of these have become an inseparable part of our lives ever since the smartphone revolution has taken place. We use apps like Whatsapp , Facebook , Pinterest , Twitter and Quora all the time. Social learning and mobile learning have a lot in common.

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Do you speak emojis?

Coorpacademy

trillion mobile messages every year. Social networks and instant messaging allow us to communicate massively and quickly, whenever we need to. It became the most used emoji on Twitter in 2021, ahead of the “Face with tears of joy” emoji. That your message is interpreted as too familiar or impolite.

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How to Design Addiction from “FOMO” into eLearning

eLearningMind

It’s what keeps you scrolling through pictures on Instagram or checking Twitter every five minutes. When you send a text message and get one in return, it floods your brain with dopamine. It’s the satisfaction of instant gratification, and it’s hard to get more instant than instant messaging.

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Terms e-Learning Designers Should Know

Mindflash

technologies grow in importance, synchronous learning can be facilitated on enterprise social networks and on on-line chat and instant messaging services. You can follow him on Twitter or on Google+. It can also occur on a video conference or traditional conference call. As enterprise 2.0

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Making Sense of the World

Jay Cross

I extract general pointers and patterns from tributaries such as: Twitter, where I receive tips from a couple of hundred people I respect and follow. Skypechat, for instant messaging and discussion with my peers at Internet Time Alliance. I use Google to search my own work.).

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Using social media for eLearning (a look at the top 6 social platforms)

eFront

The most appealing thing about Twitter is also its major limitation: you have to fit your content in 140 characters. This limit makes using Twitter for general eLearning problematic. On the other hand, the 140-character limit makes Twitter a handy platform for micro-learning.