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Welcome to Howard Rheingold's #etmooc Session
#etmooc T3S2:  Literacies of Attention, Crap Detection, Participation, Collaboration, and Network Know-How
Blackboard Collaborate Link: http://couros.ca/x/connect
 
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Facilitator Team:
  • 0) Search for Contextual Resources & Place Them in Text Chat  - Alec, Peggy
  • 1) Extract URLS and Contextualize them below -   Valerie, Peggy
  • 2) Identify & Start Defining Key Words for the Lexicon - VOLUNTEER(S) Kristen
  • 3) Keep track of Top Level Categories for Whiteboard Mindmapping - VOLUNTEER(S)
  • volunteer Elizabeth Dill
  • 4) Screenshots of Whiteboards with Links below - Alison)v
  • 5) Question Wrangler (gather questions from chat) - VOLUNTEER(S)Peggy, Alison Valerie
 
0) Contextual Resources
Background Resources prior to webinar:
http://rheingold.com/ (Howard Rheingold home page)
http://rheingold.com/about/ (About Howard Rheingold)
http://rheingold.com/netsmart/ (Netsmart: How to Thrive Online, Howard Rheingold, 2012)
http://rheingold.com/2012/recording-of-my-education-2-0-conversation-with-steve-hargadon/
Howard's TED Talk http://www.ted.com/talks/howard_rheingold_on_collaboration.html
 
April 5, 2012: Future of Education interview with Howard and Steve Hargadon on Netsmart. Steve is a great interviewer, and about 80 members of his active Classroom 2.0 community joined via text chat. The Blackboard Collaborate recording (use the player controls)  includes audio, video, slides, and text chat. You will be asked to  allow the download and launch of a Java applet, then use the player  controls to play the recording.
https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2012-04-04.1238.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350
TTT#295 - Discussing NetSmart w/ Howard Rheingold (Teachers Teaching Teachers on EdTech Talk, May 2, 2012-video recording and chat log)
http://www.edtechtalk.com/node/5101
Crap Detection 101: Video presentation by Howard Rheingold http://blip.tv/howardrheingold/crap-detection-101-3352757
Crap Detection, Part 1 - http://goo.gl/vsqbF
 
 
1) URL RESOURCES (Place Below & Contextualize)
  • http://allaboutexplorers.com/ All About Explorers site created by teachers for teachers to teach students to question internet sources and validity
 
 
2) LEXICON (Add & Begin to Define Definitions)
  • Social Media Literacies (as defined by Howard)- the skill of encoding and decoding with a social or sharing element
  • Attention (as defined by Howard)- Something that challenges us due to all of the communication media around us, attention to intention is how the mind changes the brain
  • Participation
  • Collaboration
  • Crap Detection: Critical Consumption
  • Network Know-how
  • Media Multitasking- switching between 2 different tasks in media, and it often degrades performance
  • Metacognition- thinking about thinking to develop an inner awareness
  • Infotention- when you try to tame/train your attention in varied media spaces to suit our goals/purposes
  • Triangulate- find multiple sources to confirm what you read (especially important with breaking news and the real time web)
  • Power Law of Participation - Social software brings groups together to discover and create value.  The problem is, users only have so much time for social software.  The vast majority of users with not have a high level of engagement with a given group, and most tend to be free riders upon community value.  But patterns have emerged where low threshold participation amounts to collective intelligence and high engagement provides a different form of collaborative intelligence (from Ross Mayfield's blog here: http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2006/04/power_law_of_pa.html)
  • Social capital - the capacity of people to get things done through networks of trust, outside of formal institutions Incomplete definition of social capital, perhaps this is the definition of network capital.  Wikipedia defines social capital as "the expected collective or economic benefits derived from the  preferential treatment and cooperation between individuals and groups."
  • Curation - if you collect good stuff  ... aww, I lost the train - something about you will collect a valuable group of people who are attracted to the same thing - AHA there it is on slide 51, "Send signls that attract like-minded potential collaborators" (H Reingold)
  • Curation: Leverage collective intelligence. Filter for each other. 
  • Architectures of participation - use self interest to construct public goods
  • Howard coined the term "virtual communities"
  • Enclosure - converting public goods to private use, or private ownership
 
 
 
3) TOP LEVEL CATEGORIES (Start organizing these below)
  • Social Media Literacies
  • Attention
  • Crap Detection
  • Partipication
  • Collaboration
  • Network Know-How
  • Meta-Cognition
  • Mind Map
  • Critical Consumption
  • Trianglation
  • Participation
  • Curation
  • Participatory Culture
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Collective Intelligence
  • Cooperative Learning
  • Collaborative Learning
  • Network Awareness
 
 
4) SCREENSHOTS FROM LIVE SESSION (Add links below)
 
5) QUESTIONS FROM CHAT (Add below)
  • Are there games that help students learn Social Media literacies?
  • Will you talk about attention probes and what you find when you ask students to try them?
  • What roles do audience response systems (ARS) have to keep attention focused?
  •  Is it possible that we mutlitask so much because the information we are accessing in not particularly engaging?                        
  • Do we multitask because we think we can handle information at a faster speed?
  • Do you ever ask students to switch off their technology in your classes?
  • Isn't that the site is so highly linked to by media teachers it now shows up first in Google searches?
  • What about backchannels as distractions or amplifiers? What do you recommend with backchannels?
  • How many of us find things out first on Twitter?
  • the power is not in what you know but who you know, perhaps? (re: networks)
  • Is self-promotion the opposite of integrity?
  • How do you think MOOCs and networked learning will impact higher ed, experimenting as you do with online instruction and f2f instruction?
  • What do you think about Sherry Turkle's book "Alone Together"?  Is she alarmis, or right on the money?
  • Is sharing resources we see as valuable the best way to filter crap?
  • What is "enclosure"?  Why are we defening against it?
  • What do you know now that you did not know an hour ago?
  • How far are we from having more high school courses delivered as MOOC courses?