Connectivism.

I’m always looking for new ways to learn and retain the information in order to recall it later when needed.  Staying focused and organized is a good way to start on that journey.  I have found that the internet tools such as Google, Bing, ask etc., works really well as portals to various websites.  I tend to use them all; I found that sometimes each one may take you a different route to different sites.    

Friends and family as well as co-workers are also good sources of learning tools.  They may provide awareness to areas of the web you may not have thought of previously.  

 Social networks, such as Linkin, Focus.com etc., provide a sense of online community, neighbors who maybe next door, two states over or even a country you may have wanted to visit one day.  They may offer information you are seeking, for instance you may want to monitor the weather pattern in Edinburgh, Scotland, well if you have a friend on one of your social networks, who lives in or near Edinburgh that can help you obtain that statistics.

Emails, instant messages are great when you have questions, type it up push send and there you go question asked.  Hopefully your answer would come between 3 minutes and 24 hours.

From the time we are born we learn by mimicking others.  As we grow the need for knowledge continues, the technology that we have today help quench the thirst for that knowledge.  Using the internet, cell phones and video sources to connect with others helps us acquire the wealth of information that is waiting for us.