Librarian by Day » howard rheingold http://librarianbyday.net by Bobbi Newman Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:52:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Howard Rheingold on New Literacies – Crap Detection http://librarianbyday.net/2010/03/12/howard-rheingold-on-new-literacies-crap-detection/ http://librarianbyday.net/2010/03/12/howard-rheingold-on-new-literacies-crap-detection/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:21:42 +0000 Bobbi Newman http://librarianbyday.net/?p=3178 This is a long video but worth watching.  Howard Rheingold talks about literacy, information literacy, digital literacy and critical thinking. One of the things that stands out to me is he borrows the term “crap detection” from Ernest Hemingway. So while he is applying it to the internet the importance of critical thinking has been around long before the internet. It is not a new skill, but rather an old skill being applies to a new medium. Read more Crap Detection 101 The CRAP Test The Essential Skill of Crap Detecting Bulls#@t and the Art of Crap-Detection Similar Posts: FCC’s Broadband Action Agenda Fails to Address Training and Education The Digital Divide Does Not Discriminate Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy Warns of “Second Class Citizens” in the Digital Age]]>

This is a long video but worth watching.  Howard Rheingold talks about literacy, information literacy, digital literacy and critical thinking. One of the things that stands out to me is he borrows the term “crap detection” from Ernest Hemingway. So while he is applying it to the internet the importance of critical thinking has been around long before the internet. It is not a new skill, but rather an old skill being applies to a new medium.

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