Howard Rheingold has graciously agreed to take questions from members of the Ning. He wants you to share your examples and suggestions on how to teach critical thinking. Tom, Shelly, and I will choose a handful of questions that we will then ask to Howard during a 1 hour Elluminate session.
Please visit the links below to familiarize yourself with Howard Rheingold's work:
Crap Detection 101
**When writing your question please include your first and last name, Twitter name and location.
**We will use the hashtag #HRChat for the discussion!
Howard Rheingold is the author of Tools for Thought, The Virtual Community and Smart Mobs. He was the editor of Whole Earth Review, The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog, founding executive editor of Hotwired, founder of Electric Minds, a Non-resident Fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication, (USC, 2007), and a Visiting Professor at De Montfort University in the UK. He has taught Participatory Media and Collective Action (UC Berkeley, SIMS, Fall 2005, 2006, 2007), Virtual Community/Social Media (Stanford, Fall 2007, 2008; UC Berkeley, Spring 2008, 2009), Toward a Literacy of Cooperation (Stanford, Winter, 2005), and Digital Journalism (Stanford University Winter, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008).
His current projects include the Social Media Classroom, The Cooperation Project, Participatory Media Literacy, HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation grantee, and the 21st Century Literacies videos. Watch the 6 minute video interview.
You can follow him on Twitter, http://twitter.com/hrheingold
We would like to thank Betsy Aoki, Microsoft's "Blog Queen" for helping us set-up this discussion with Howard. She was recently featured by ZDNet as one of Microsoft’s Women to Watch, and responsible for launching Microsoft's corporate blogging efforts at blogs.msdn.com and blogs.technet.com. Since then, she has worked to deliver a few more community projects for Microsoft -- Live QnA and the Xbox Live Indie Games platform. She tweets from @bing and creates community outreach projects for Bing.
We would like to thank Betsy Aoki, Microsoft's "Blog Queen" for helping us set-up this discussion with Howard. She was recently featured by ZDNet as one of Microsoft’s Women to Watch, and responsible for launching Microsoft's corporate blogging efforts at blogs.msdn.com and blogs.technet.com. Since then, she has worked to deliver a few more community projects for Microsoft -- Live QnA and the Xbox Live Indie Games platform. She tweets from @bing and creates community outreach projects for Bing.