background preloader

Howard Rheingold: new literacies

Facebook Twitter

Wiki:Main Page. Instructor: Howard Rheingold Stanford Winter Quarter 2014 Mondays, 11:15-2:05, Room TBA Course Description: Today’s personal, social, political, economic worlds are all affected by digital media and networked publics.

Wiki:Main Page

Viral videos, uprisings from Cairo to Wall Street, free search engines, abundant inaccuracy and sophisticated disinformation online, indelible and searchable digital footprints, laptops in lecture halls and BlackBerries at the dinner table, twenty-something social media billionaires, massive online university courses -- it’s hard to find an aspect of daily life around the world that is not being transformed by the tweets, blogs, wikis, apps, movements, likes and plusses, tags, text messages, and comments two billion Internet users and six billion mobile phone subscriptions emit.

Learning Outcomes: Diligent students will: Cultivate an ability to discern, analyze, and exert control over the way they deploy their attention.Learn to use social media tools for collaborative work. Howard Rheingold - wikipedia. Howard Rheingold (born July 7, 1947) is a critic, writer, and teacher; his specialties are on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities (a term he is credited with inventing).

Howard Rheingold - wikipedia

Biography[edit] Rheingold was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, from 1964 to 1968. His senior thesis was entitled "What Life Can Compare with This? Sitting Alone at the Window, I Watch the Flowers Bloom, the Leaves Fall, the Seasons Come and Go In 1998, he created his next virtual community, Brainstorms, a private successful webconferencing community for knowledgeable, intellectual, civil, and future-thinking adults from all over the world. Rheingold in Mill Valley. In 2002, Rheingold published Smart Mobs, exploring the potential for technology to augment collective intelligence. Rheingold lives in Mill Valley, California, with his wife Judy and daughter Mamie.

See also[edit] Exploring mind amplifiers since 1964. Howard Rheingold U - Courses. Courses How courses work: (contact me via howard@rheingold.com if you want to get on a notification list.

Howard Rheingold U - Courses

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. 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. Netsmart. How can we use digital media so that they help us become empowered participants rather than passive consumers?

Netsmart

In Net Smart, I show how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully. Download the introductory chapter (PDF) here. Mindful use of digital media means thinking about what we are doing, cultivating an ongoing inner inquiry into how we want to spend our time. I outline five fundamental digital literacies, online skills that will help us do this: attention, participation, collaboration, critical consumption of information (or "crap detection"), and network smarts. I explain how attention works, and how we can use our attention to focus on the tiny relevant portion of the incoming tsunami of information.

There is a bigger social issue at work in digital literacy, one that goes beyond personal empowerment. Social media syllabus.