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PLAY! New Media Literacies - PLAY! Framework. Findings. Note: The data in this report come from Pew Internet Project surveys conducted throughout 2010, which were bundled together to collect a statistically meaningful population of those who said they attended community college, four-year schools, and graduate schools. For more information about the samples, please see the Methodology section at the end of this report.

College students, the internet, home broadband, and wireless connections When it comes to general internet access, young adults of all stripes are much more likely than the general population to go online. Fully 92% of 18-24 year olds who do not attend college are internet users, comparable to the rate for community college students and just slightly lower than the rate for undergraduate and graduate students (nearly 100% of whom access the internet). Social networking sites and college students Gadget ownership Wireless connectors – via cell phone We measure overall wireless connectivity in two ways.

Einstein, YouTube, and New Media Literacies in the Connected Age. When I started using digital media in my classroom, I began my search for mentors by inspecting Will Richardson's social bookmarking networks on Diigo, then followed on Twitter some of the people Will paid attention, which led to Web 2.0 learning expert Steve Hargadon. When Hargadon invited me to participate in an online Elluminate session with 100 educators and librarians, it was an opportunity to learn about a subject I'm deeply interested in -- the literacy of critical consumption of online information (or, as Hemingway put it more plainly, "Crap Detection"). So I told Steve I'd be happy to talk about that subject, with the understanding that I wanted to learn from as well as lecture to the community.

Together, the people who assembled from around the world for that session ended up aggregating a set of links to websites that prove you can't believe everything you find online. In a recent interview with Angela via videoskype, the nonlinear learning expedition continued. 21st Century Literacies | HowardRheingold on Blip. Exploring Social Media Literacies in Teaching and Learning: Howard Rheingold's Keynote at CHI 2011 (Cross-post) Caitlin Barry: Defining 'Media Literacy' Phrases like 'media literacy' and 'digital learning' are thrown around so frequently now in the world of education that they are beginning to lose their meaning. They encompass a huge range of classroom activities: doing Internet research, using mobile technology, blogging, watching film clips, reading news articles, thinking critically about ads... and that's only the tip of the iceberg.

There are few educators that would argue against the importance of using media and technology in the classroom. One would be hard-pressed to find a teacher who thinks reading current events articles is useless or using visual media is irrelevant. And yet, we have made very little progress in implementing any media literacy curriculum on a national, or even statewide, level. This is partially because of a lack of funding for technological resources. A year after that, I did a stint at a Brooklyn charter school. This made me wonder: why it so hard to make real strides in the world of media literacy? Rheingold U Courses. Courses How courses work: (contact me via howard@rheingold.com if you want to get on a notification list. Each cohort is limited to 35 students. Tuition is $300 for individuals, $500 if your employer reimburses, $250 if you have taken a previous RU course.

Synchronous sessions involve streaming audio, video, text chat, slides. (View recording of live session during the first class of RU, giving an overview of Introduction to Mind Amplifiers.) Asynchronous discussion uses Social Media Classroom forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps. Currently Offered Introduction to Mind Amplifiers Syllabus Mind Amplifiers augments what you can do online. Toward a new literacy of cooperation Syllabus For the past ten years, I've worked with Institute for the Future to track the emergence of a new story about how humans get things done together. Think-Know Tools. Teachers | Digital Media Literacy. Freesouls.