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Suzie Nestico

Mini-course on Crap Detection - howardrheingold's posterous - 17 views

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    Howard Rheingold's CRAP detection for examining validity of information we find on the web.
Reuven Werber

City Brights: Howard Rheingold : Crap Detection 101 - Information evaluation - 13 views

  • To me, the issue of information literacy could be even more important than the health or education of some individuals. Fundamental aspects of democracy, economic production, the discovery and use of knowledge might be at stake. Some of the biggest problems facing the world today seem to be far beyond the ability of any individual or community, or even the whole human race, to tackle.
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    Evaluating the accuracy of information on the Internet
Sandy Kendell

Crap Detection 101 - Howard Rheingold - 11 views

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    Video by Howard Rheingold on critical thinking and determining the validity of information on the Internet.
Sandy Kendell

How Do We Teach Critical Thinking and Crap Detection - Howard Rheingold - 15 views

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    Includes an extensive list of websites which can be used for teaching the concept of critical thinking and evaluating the information we find on the Internet. Based on a presentation by Howard Rheingold.
Brenda Muench

City Brights: Howard Rheingold : 21st Century Literacies - 0 views

  • And don't swallow the myth of the digital native. Just because your teens Facebook, IM, and Youtube, don't assume they know the rhetoric of blogging, collective knowledge gathering techniques of taggers and social bookmarkers, collaborative norms of wiki work, how to tune and feed a Twitter network, the art of multimedia argumentation - and, by far most importantly, online crap detection.
  • I teach courses today on social media issues at Stanford and Berkeley.
  • The most important critical uncertainty today is how many of us learn to use digital media and networks effectively, reasonably, credibly, collaboratively, civilly, humanely.
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  • They accept "information" from "news" sources simply because they are known television news stations
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