Wednesday, June 30, 2010

iste 10 - howard rheingold



started looking for people that knew they were talking about

make it clear in beginning - very interested in learning from them

how can you pluck the answer to any question in the air - how do you know what you find is accurate

textual literacy - knowing how to read and write
social literacy - work with others 
attention
participation
cooperation
critical consumption
network awareness

all need to work together... 
not really taught in schools.. not things that the students aren't teaching each other

got term from hemingway
what every journalist needs is a full proof internal crap detector

infoseek
his daughter at 11 (14 yrs ago) started searching web for papers in school - and that concerned him - the accuracy piece

http://blip.tv/file/3333374 - video and slides

wiki space to compile resources for crap detection

internal:
the person who knows how to determine crap detection - will do better in school
if you have a disease - people will go online - and that is mixed with the best up to date info - but also mixed with a bunch of bad info
external:
to believe what others send you or not

ie: student during class - sees what howard pulled up on screen, went there on his laptop, then went back to doing his email. he ended up with an a in the class.

trying to determine the beginning of understanding

having a filtered version of the web at school is like teaching kids to drive via slideshow

young students are shifting values from parents to peers - they now have a better way to do this in public
we have an opportunity


the ability to learn without a teacher has been magnified - and facilitating that is now key

most students don't know how to check the history or debates in wikipedia until you show them

use wikipedia as a tool to find out the bad things about wikipedia

in youtube
how to ____
youtube doesn't expose process by which things happen

what is readiness
behavior causes schools to shut down access to fb

no doubt - having a laptop is a seductive distraction

 backchannel, fb, all have that potential




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