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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

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The power of tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yammer, are pretty astounding. After reading this, I started thinking about this new LinkedIn utility I recently installed. If we apply the ‘weak ties’ theory, we might be able to spot people in our network who are both: a) Loosely tied to us (i.e.,

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

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The problem, though, is that many primary schools are still geared to teach in ways that would be more or less recognizable to students from thirty years ago. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Properly d. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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The Impact of Social Learning: Will You Be The First? | Social.

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Medical students and residents regularly learn new skills by first observing a procedure, then practicing the procedure under supervision, and finally teaching, or modeling, the procedure for another. Shoving the med student into a room with a patient and basket of supplies and leaving them to learn by trial and error sounds much worse to me.

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Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network.

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They might even jot down a few notes that you can reference the next time you troubleshoot that widget problem. So, here’s my leap from that “over-the-partition” informal learning scenario to how social media can support social learning: YouTube (in other words, video learning). Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

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Navy’s new plan to crowd-source the Somali piracy problem may be even more revolutionary. Navy intends to sit back and watch what unfolds, taking advantage of thousands of minds to generate innovative approaches to a real-world problem. As innovative as VBS 2 may be, the U.S. Essentially, the U.S. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of.

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And what used to be homework [solving problems] is now done in the classroom.” What happens in class is interactive problem solving – which means, in effect, that the “teachers have used technology to humanize the classroom,” he says. Khan discusses this whole phenomenon in this 20-minute TED talk. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

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For an excellent illustration of this problem, check out this great example provided by the always-interesting Cathy Moore (click the image to launch the Flash player): Courtesy of [link] So, why does narration in eLearning frequently do nothing more than parrot back what’s written on the screen? Download the whitepaper » Blog this!