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Net Smart is a book for an era where we’ve moved past just creating online identities and communities, but still have to educate ourselves on how to operate in day-to-day life. Rheingold said he believes a better understanding and deeper use of things like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are “essential survival skills” that will last beyond today or the lifespan of those individual companies.

Rheingold sees as important: attention, participation, collaboration, “crap detection,” and network smarts.

The role of the instructor has not gone away, but it has shifted, now that so many open tools and texts are available to anyone with web access. 

Why are the skills listed in the Framework for 21st Century Learning necessary? Which skills are most important? What can be done to help schools include these skills in their curriculum and instruction?

an ongoing study that explores the ways in which young people’s use of social-networking sites, blogging, online games, and other forms of digital media are shaping their “ethical minds” in that realm.