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Lone Guldbrandt Tønnesen

mooc - rheingold - 3 views

  • It isn’t possible or practical to try to control the quality of content and conversation that people publish online -- if it had been possible, there would be no web, no YouTube, no Wikipedia today -- but I contend that it is possible to increase the proportion of the population who know something about what they are doing when they consume or create digital culture.
  • Although the word “literacy” traditionally refers to the skill of encoding and decoding messages or programs in some medium, the kind of literacy required in a world of mass collaboration necessarily involves a social element as well as a personal skill
  • Social media literacies combine the skills of coding and decoding digital media with the social skills necessarily to use online tools in concert with others
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  • We will look at facets of each of these five literacies and engage in learning activities that can both increase our own competencies and provide public useful public goods
anonymous

Twitter Literacy - 9 views

  • You are responsible for whoever else’s babble you are going to direct into your awareness.
  • successful use of Twitter means knowing how to tune the network of people you follow, and how to feed the network of people who follow you.
  • If it isn’t fun, it won’t be useful. If you don’t put out, you don’t get back
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  • It’s about knowing how and knowing who and knowing who knows who knows what. Whatever you call this blend of craft and community, one of the most important challenges posed by the real-time, ubiquitous, wireless, always-on, often alienating interwebs are the skills required for the use of media to be productive and to foster authentic interpersonal connection, rather than waste of time and attention on phony, banal, alienated pseudo-communication. Know-how is where the difference lies.
Lone Guldbrandt Tønnesen

#Change11 Social Media Literacies and Multiple Intelligences | Learner Weblog - 2 views

  •  The use of Personal Learning Environment (PLE) might better align with this MI way of thinking, where the learner would decide which of those capacities he or she has would be of interests for development.
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    Great point in the end about learning managment systems
Maureen Greenbaum

A News Literacy Guide from NewsTrust.net - Crap Detection 101 - 6 views

  • it's up to the consumer of the information to decide which images, videos, tweets are authentic
anonymous

Microsoft's View of the Future Workplace is Brilliant, Here's Why - Forbes - 5 views

  • ethical leaders will rebalance the work environment to support greater collaboration, serendipitous encounters, informal knowledge flows and more profit
roland legrand

How Codecademy got so hot, so fast - Tech News and Analysis - 0 views

  • more than 1 million users
  • five full-time staffers.
  • I learn best by building things and breaking things, not by just reading something.
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  • bite-sized pieces
  • Programming is the new literacy
  • real-life meetups
  • a Q&A feature within its web product to let people talk to each other
  • skills are the most important factor
  • Michael Bloomberg
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    Codeacademy is a start-up teaching people to code. It has tremendous succes. 
roland legrand

A Portal to Media Literacy - YouTube - 1 views

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    This video from anthropologist Michael Wesch is from 2008 and gives a deep insight into teaching, learning, media. 
Louise Lee

Crap Detection 101 | City Brights: Howard Rheingold | an SFGate.com blog - 5 views

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    steps to take to verify a tweet,
anonymous

Continuous Partial Attention - 11 views

  • We have focused on managing our time. Our opportunity is to focus on how we manage our attention.
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