Here are two clever tools that could give you ideas for ways to support your learners.

1. What’s that bird?

We’re out in the woods and hear a bird.

“Red-legged wrangler?” I say.

“I don’t think so,” you say. “Maybe a sharp-eared snipper.”

I pull out my iFlyer scanning wand and field guide. I scan the bar codes next to the wrangler and snipper. The wand plays each bird’s song and we discover that, as usual, you’re right. And now we’ve reinforced our knowledge of two more bird songs.

How could this technology help your organization? Language learning? Pronunciation help? Verbal instructions so people can focus on the procedure and not have to keep looking at text? Explanations of unusual items or tools?

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