The Top 102 Tools for Learning

The 2014 version of The Top 100 Tools for Learning is out now*. Same trio in the lead as last year: Twitter, Google Docs/Drive, YouTube.

Only minor changes in top ten. One interesting move is from PowerPoint – upwards! What is this, have the educators of the world finally come to their senses and voted for this trusted workhorse?

As I found (here) that such oldies as GoogleSites (75>18) and OpenOffice (82>16) have made similar or even a bigger leaps, I think it's more a question about who gave their vote this year, a change in demographics, than about the added value of the tool itself.

Learning material both in the virtual and the physical LE. Video/Youtube, QR codes and Thinglink applied. 

Methinks these rankings would look quite different from the Finnish point of view. One thing is sure: Twitter wouldn't sit on the throne here, nor would Evernote make it to top ten. Moodle might be closer to the top, and Fronter and kyvyt.fi would be on the list.

There are two tools that I'd like to find in both of these lists. One is tens of years old and the other is a novel one: QR codes and Thinglink. Above you can see an interactive Thinglink image. The videos attached to it are also available in the real environment – small QR codes sticked next to the proper spot in the restaurant.


PS. I so much tried to order the Guidebook, but the only way would've been to use PayPal. One day I'll buy it, on the very day there'll be another payment option.

* well, slow as I am to write... has actually been for a few weeks...