Rheingold quote slides
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This document summarizes key ideas from Howard Rheingold's book "Net Smart" on how digital participation and media can help build a more democratic and diverse culture. It discusses how learning to participate online effectively develops skills in knowledge and media production. Quotes emphasize helping others to get help, using social media in the classroom to recognize new opportunities, and how attention and distraction skills can be strengthened through education.
Rheingold quote slides
- 1. People who think of themselves as capable of creating as well as consuming are different kinds of citizens, and our collective actions add up to a different kind of society. Knowledge, power, advantage, companionship, and influence lie with those who know how to participate, not just passively consume culture.
- 2. Learning to participate effectively online is a matter of mindset and practice– and the payoff can be big… Done mindfully, digital participation helps build a more democratic, more diverse culture. Howard Rheingold
- 3. “The heuristic for crap detection is to make skepticism your default. Don’t refuse to believe; refuse to start out believing.” Howard Rheingold
- 4. One of the side effects or what we call collateral learning for kids who do engage in geeked out, interest driven activities is that when start engaging in knowledge or media production, you tend to develop a much more sophisticated understanding of how knowledge and media is produced more generally. Mimi Ito quoted in Rheingold
- 5. “'What can you do?' has been replaced with 'What can you and your network connections do?' Knowledge itself is moving from the individual to the individual and his contacts.” --Jay Cross, Informal Learning quoted in Rheingold Net Smart
- 6. “The most important criteria for getting help is helping somebody else. If you want help in the future, help somebody now. Pay it forward. We have had data on that.” Wellman, Networked quoted in Rheingold, Net Smart
- 7. We use social media in the classroom not because our students use it, but because we are afraid that social media might be using them– that they are using social media blindly, without recognition of the new challenges and opportunities they might create. Michael Wesch, quoted in Rheingold’s Net Smart
- 8. When it comes to interacting with the world of always-on information, the fundamental skill, on which other essential skills depend, is the ability to deal with distraction without filtering out opportunity. Howard Rheingold, Net Smart
- 9. An antidote to our epidemic distraction lies in a set of astonishing discoveries: attention can be understood, strengthened, and taught. If focus skills can be groomed, the important next question is whether, and how, attention should be integrated into education. Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, quoted in Rheingold Net Smart
- 10. “All people and media are available all the time, and in all places, but relatively few people appear to use the ubiquitous informational access and social connectivity politely and productively.” Rheingold, Net Smart, p. 36
- 11. The war on distraction can go too far for your own good– Distraction is a real issue, but dwelling exclusively on its dark side can be a form of selective inattention. Rheingold, Net Smart
- 12. The meaning of unproductive, like distraction, requires both context and a firm idea of one’s goals. If your aim is to produce a certain amount of external output, as opposed to the more internal production f learning), then the invitations to serendipity, play, and digression that digital media offer are obstacles and dangers. If your aspiration is to learn, help build community, and explore, then the issue gets more complicated. Rheingold, Net Smart
- 13. Knowing how to blog, tweet, wiki, search, innovate, pro gram, and/or organize online can lead to political, cultural, and economic value.” Howard Rheingold, Net Smart
- 14. Used mindfully, how can digital media help us grow smarter? My years of study and experience have led me to conclude that humans are humans because we invent thinking and communicating tools that enable us to do bigger, more powerful things together. Howard Rheingold, Net Smart