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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Social media connection tools provide a space for educators to connect with a global audience. In addition to the popular social media tools ( Facebook , Edmodo , Twitter ), there are also interest-based groups, including Ning and Google/Yahoo! Ning is a fully functional social networking site. Classroom 2.0

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Social media connection tools provide a space for educators to connect with a global audience. In addition to the popular social media tools ( Facebook , Edmodo , Twitter ), there are also interest-based groups, including Ning and Google/Yahoo! Ning is a fully functional social networking site. Classroom 2.0

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Skills Are the Currency of “The Expertise Economy”

CLO Magazine

Palmer is chief learning officer at Degreed, an education technology company, and the former chief learning officer for LinkedIn and former vice president of learning at Yahoo. Those three important skills — problem-solving, critical thinking and emotional intelligence — are unique to humans.

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danah boyd on teens and 21st century work

Jay Cross

danah boyd opened ASTD TechKnowledge 2013 with a keynote on teenagers, networks, and work in the 21st century. A programmer would submit a program on punch cards and wait hours for it to compile. Programming became communal, sharing replaced building from scratch, and programmers migrated to co-working spaces.

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Are You Building Skills and Knowledge for the Future?

CLO Magazine

The rate of change is happening faster than ever before, and it’s imperative that we all focus on acquiring knowledge and building skills that will help us stay relevant in the workforce and prepare us for the future. That means helping employees get skills and knowledge at the time of need. Focus on building specific skills.

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What Career Advice Would You Give Your Younger Self?

SweetRush

When I mentioned this to my brilliant colleague, Tiffany Vojnovski (eLearning Industry trailblazer, bird enthusiast, writer/poet, and the Waldorf to my Statler ), she encouraged me to reach out to my LinkedIn network. So, I decided to shake things up a bit and reach out to my network on LinkedIn. Be patient.

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The Power of Learning From Your Peers

CLO Magazine

In contrast, in graduate school where I was learning about how we learn, the program used a peer-to-peer model. A learning week is a way to get all employees involved in the learning process and takes advantage of the fact that most people learn best when they can explain what they know or demonstrate a skill to others. Tech Talks.