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A number of events in 2017 have caused more people to do what few people have done until now — ask whether mechanisms and media billions of people have adopted enthusiastically might be more harmful… Via Ivon Prefontaine, PhD 
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This is the second of a series of videos in which Howard Rheingold and Jim Groom walk through creating an open source learning environment using tools like WordPress, MediaWIki, and more. The idea behind this series is to get faculty and students... Via Elizabeth E Charles
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By the end of 2014, more than 3 billion people will have access to the Internet, which means that they (we) have the power to ask any question at any time and get a multitude of answers within a second. Via Elizabeth E Charles
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This document is a resource for assessing the accuracy or veracity of online information, organized under a number of headings. The objective of the resource is to improve the digital lives of individuals and to improve the quality of the online commons by increasing the number of people who know how to separate good info from bad info. Via Elizabeth E Charles
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This is the first of a series of videos in which Howard Rheingold and Jim Groom walk through creating an open source learning environment using tools like WordPress, MediaWIki, and more. The idea behind this series is to get faculty and students... Via Elizabeth E Charles
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The onslaught of information from the wired world can be overwhelming to anyone — even the savviest online audiences. But rather than completely shut out the digital world, the smarter solution is to learn how to manage it, says author Howard Rheingold.
In his book Net Smart: How to Thrive Online, Rheingold outlines the potential merits of the vast digital landscape, and offers ideas on how to lasso the unwieldy aspects and use it for good.
In a recent conversation on the Forum talk program, Rheingold stresses the importance of intention when it comes to managing digital noise. Knowing that every click will likely to lead to a chunk of time spent on what follows will help people decide if that’s worthwhile. Every click counts.
I think [there's] this matter of meta-cognition, of knowing where you’re putting your attention,” he told Michael Krasny on Forum. “You need to make decisions. ‘Am I going to click on that link? Am I going to maybe open a tab for it on my browser and look at it later?
Am I going to bookmark it to look at it much later or am I going to ignore it?’ You need to make those decisions consciously and I think most of us make them unconsciously… We wouldn’t have so many cute cat videos if people didn’t click on impulse.”
“You need to make decisions. ‘Am I going to click on that link? You need to make those decisions consciously.”
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April 28, 2014 2:39 PM
Howard is spot on so many things. This is one of the many |
