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Play Library Santa: Sharing gifts of digital media

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Ask your guests to take out their library cards and their mobile devices, and help them get started with accounts to any of the following available free-to-the-public gifts: RBDigital , from Recorded Books, offers instant, full-color, interactive digital magazines without any holds, checkout periods or other such limits.

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Resources for learning at home while we’re keeping each other safe

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And here are a couple of curated lists of free books and stories and free video channels. RBDigital , from Recorded Books, offers instant, full-color, interactive digital magazines without any holds, checkout periods or other such limits. Tumblebooks is a collection of animated, talking picture books licensed from book publishers.

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LinkedIn Learning Opens Its Platform (Slightly)

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A few years ago, in a move toward professional learning, LinkedIn bought Lynda.com for $1.5 So far LinkedIn Learning plans to work with five partners: Harvard ManageMentor (run by Harvard Business Review), getAbstract (which includes book summaries and TED talks), Big Think, Treehouse (which features courses on coding) and Creative Live.

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Is Creativity a Skill?

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George Anders, book author and senior editor at LinkedIn: Creativity has picked a clever, infuriating spot, right in the middle of the continuum between very teachable skills at one end, and practically unalterable traits at the other. Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com: Creativity is a soft skill. It combines elements of both.

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

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On the one hand, some cryptocurrencies sound like something from a comic book with names like CryptoKitties. Take LiveEdu , for example, a Y Combinator-backed online learning company that touts itself as being the “next-gen Lynda.com,” referring to a platform that offers online courses and skills training.

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Events + News - Library 2.0 Spring Summit - Free-Range Kids - Testing "Chaos" and Opting Out - Student Debt - Will College Survive?

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We will also discuss favorite online resources, books, and activities for learning, with a focus on materials that empower learners to work things out on their own. A strong push for unfettered play and free time for children will also be presented.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies). Big Tech’s Bets.