What cognitive skills are crucial for educators to attend to in our digital age? Media theorist and practitioner Howard Rheingold has talked about four "Twenty-first Century Literacies"--attention, participation, collaboration, and network awareness
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see http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/rheingold/category?blogid=108&cat=2538
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Futurist Alvin Toffler argues that, in the 21st century, we need to know not only the three R's, but also how to learn, unlearn, and relearn. Expanding on these, here are ten literacies that seem crucial for our digital age.
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the most modern communication tools — blogs, podcasts, YouTube — are actually returning us to an ancient form of media, one in which everyone participates on almost equal footing.
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fundamental human urge to tell our own stories
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Before mass media, before the written word — for all of human history — story-telling was a shared privilege.
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