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5Sustainable Learning: Upgrading Your Learning and Development—MapQuest Directions to Google Maps

Long, long ago when dinosaurs used to roam the Earth, we humans had only one trustworthy source of navigation to get from point A to point B: MapQuest. Okay maybe I'm exaggerating just a little bit; it was at least a few millennia after dinosaurs, but either way, without these preprinted static directions, our species would be almost at a complete loss in finding our way. It was during this time period that I took a road trip with a close friend of mine from Boston to Quebec, Canada. Now for those of you who predate MapQuest, imagine a website where you could enter your starting point and destination and it would output a series of directions you would need to print out and bring with you on your travels, while you simultaneously send a quick prayer that the streets and highways listed were correct and still even existed. During this seven‐hour road trip into Canada, somewhere my friend and I made a wrong turn. Quite honestly, it's possible we made a few wrong turns, but with nothing but a preprinted set of directions, we were a bit up the proverbial creek without a paddle. Luckily we made it into Canada, but were not sure how to get to our final destination in Quebec. After a few hours of confused circling, we were able to flag down some nice Canadians who we hoped could help us right our course. Unfortunately, we were in the French‐speaking province of Canada, and as two English ...