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But this can change, and it will. Social networking will be reordered around the context or cause by which we have connected and away from defining relationships directly - for instance, by having thousands of Facebook friends. And the therapeutic community that we entered into last week will be better sustained by harnessing the power of mobile social media to restore real-life context to our online ties, foster deeper bonds with others, and share new opportunities to interact and collaborate, based on what we've been through together.

In particular, we yearn for this greater belonging today because the richness of our relationships is ironically lost on social networks. We are "friends" or "not friends," and easily forget who's who and how we are connected. We have connectivity, but lack context, continuity, and community. We are "alone together," as MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle has put it.

With the same resolve as we disseminated information and expressed solidarity last week, we can use the power of technology to stay connected and take a few more steps forward together.

Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action

Multimodality is an inter-disciplinary approach that understands communication and representation to be more than about language.

Netiquette is a set of rules for behaving properly online.

Moral literacy involves a complex set of skills and habits that can be cultivated and enriched through education. Like other forms of literacy, it is best developed in the home and the community as well as in the schools. Still, the best way to ensure that we are part of a moral nation is to commit educational resources to this crucial ability.

Digital literacy is more than knowing how to send a text or watch a music video. It means having the knowledge and ability to use a range of technology tools for varied purposes.

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unication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.

Digital Literacy is the ability to use information and comm

Well, first citizenship, which is formally defined as “the quality of an individual’s response to membership in a community.”