Multiliteracies Evo session

Those relationships, as much as the bookmarks themselves, represent a common asset. Yahoo! doesn't own the relationships among its users, any more than a party host owns the relationships among her guests.

It's the bargain that underpins much of the social web. Twitter gives us 140 characters worth of storage and a killer API, and we fill it up with our latest thoughts and experiences. Foursquare gives us a nice way of converting GPS locations to actual intuitive locations, and we give it the scoop on where we hang out. Facebook gives us a way to connect with friends, and we tell it who we know and what we have to say to them. This bargain amounts to the world's most ambitious marriage of public and private value creation. On the one hand you've got private companies trying to monetize their social networks and web apps, generating at least enough revenue to keep the lights on. And on the other hand you've got individuals who voluntarily engage in the social production of common value:

It's that collectively created value that distinguishes today's social web from previous generations of on- and offline media.

the only imaginable reason to shut down instead of selling is to avoid offering a competitive advantage to another company, in a truly egregious example of placing competition ahead of customers.

countless blog posts about different ways to use Delicious

all those bookmarks! — add up to an investment

The investment of users like me is what makes Web 2.0 fundamentally different from Web 1.0,

sumption that today’s student are computer-literate because they are “digital natives” is a pernicious

critical capacity to glean the implications, and limitations, of technologies as they emerge and become woven in

Arguing that there should be new standards for tech literacy and that most students don’t meet them implies a third piece -- one that is likely to make course designers hem and haw: You need to teach them.

instructors might try to do their best to integrate discussions that might improve students’ tech literacy into existing units in the syllabus

filtering the pertinent from the misleading

critical thinking skills that enable them to use various technologies wisely

various discussions and controversies over the Digital Age

Host and guest can see the feedback unfold and respond during the chat. Then, Hargadon opens the discussion to everybody,

The project is an excellent specimen of the best kind of intellectual engagement, which wouldn't be possible without digital technology.

automatic summary technologies

There are a wide variety of ways that news could be served up to people in the future.

syndication and subscription approach

Yes, the novel was the video game of the Industrial Age.