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Social Learning Ought to be Story-Sharing: "Friends You Haven't Met Yet"

Vignettes Learning

We spoke about ICT's Story Web Blog Project. Army, they compiled 33 million web blogs that use personal stories. References: USC Center for Creative Technologies Matthew D. First, some background: I visited with Andrew Gordon, Ph.D., He was one of 45 doctoral students under Roger Schank at Northwestern University.

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Evolution of L&D - Some more thoughts

ID Reflections

I love the serendipity of the web. I have seen this happen again and again when interacting on the web—learning, lurking, contributing and participating. Refer to this excellent infographic by Ross Dawson.) And as John Hagel said, we shape serendipity. You have to work for it.” And it happened again over the last two days.