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Read more →Social is not an option
The recognition that social literacy is a necessity for everybody, even those at the top, is gathering momentum. View the story “Social is not an option” on Storify
Read more →Meta and meta
The key quote called out in the article about Kahneman’s work on behavior and metacognition is this: “Critical thinking has to include assessing one’s own thinking.” View the story “New Story” on Storify
Read more →Net Smart online session
Recording of Howard Rheingold’s audio-video session with New Media Consortium discussing Net Smart.
Read more →Sharp illustration of Net Smart talk at SXSWi
Very cool work from Andrew Federman @ImageThink
Read more →The report that Google’s first hire (#3 after Larry and Sergey) has left to join Khan Academy indicates the degree to which new models for development and delivery of educational networks and artifacts is coming to the fore in terms of the attention of the technology analyst community. This has been the major theme that we have been tracking as we likewise launch a new model for learning into the marketspace. It seems that one developmental notion in this new wave of education star-ups is the establishment of “brand as platform.” Similar to how Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon, and Google became the brand
Read more →Use Twitter, search, Diigo Delicious, DEVONthink, Scrivener to find, refine, and organize information into knowledge
Read more →Howard Rheingold, Ted Nelson & Doug Englebart at Play
This is a celebration in the season of celebration.
Read more →Should I save or should I go now?
Harvard’s Nieman Center presents some intriguing primary research digging into emerging patterns of what is saved or marked for future reading. This is one of the key Infotention skills, and the initial results point mostly to the “kinds” of writing that emerge as being “sticky.” This is a natural concern for Journalistic research. The study equates this stickiness with engagement, another Infotention component, one requiring some deeper and more pointed research. Developing
Read more →Our illustrious Chief Curriculum Officer and Instructor Howard Rheingold has been invited to deliver the University of California at Berkeley Regent’s Lecture on Monday January 23, 2012 from 5 to 7 p.m at South Hall on the Berkeley Campus. Quoting Mr. Rheingold ““My career-long compulsion has been to take new media to their limits. In the field of learning, this means developing a method of teaching and learning that amplifies the affordances of online media to depart from the millennia-old model of professor-lecture-texts-tests. The first stage of this evolution was the application of online media to classroom teaching. The second stage was the transformation of my teaching because of
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