The #Edchat Special Conversation With Howard Rheingold Wrap-Up

Last night over 150 people joined us in Elluminate to talk to Howard Rheingold on how do we get kids thinking critically about the information we find online and off. It was a great discussion with tons of information.

First here is the link to the archive of the Elluminate session. It lasted a little over and hour and well worth the time to go back and really listen to what Howard has to say.
http://bit.ly/hrchat

Next is the wiki that Howard has created to collect resources related to critical thinking and internet literacies. There is all ready tons of stuff there but Howard encourages us to add more.
http://critical-thinking.iste.wikispaces.net/

Howard had a great slidedeck of screenshots of different websites used in teaching critical thinking with the information we find on the internet. Here are the links to all the sites in the deck.
http://newzforme/news/39833148.aspx

http://www.malepregnancy.com/science/

http://www.genochoice.com/

http://www.teenbreaks.com

http://www.corporationsandhealth.org/201004-Assessing-the_Health_Implications_of_the_Supreme_Court.php

http://www.desmogblog.com/bonner-and-associates-long-and-undemocratic-history-astroturfing

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/occt2006/db20061009_579137.htm

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=California_Latino_Water_Coalition

http://www.nobeveragetax.com/ny-coalition-opposes-bev-tax

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

http://www.thedogisland.com/

http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/

http://www.rythospital.com/2008/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute

http://www.philb.com/fakesites.htm

http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html

http://improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html

http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html

http://www.ovaprima.org/http://www.hetracil.com/

http://web.utk.edu/~blyons/centaur.htm

http://www.d-b.net/dti/

http://www.deadlysins.com/guineaworm/index.htm

http://www.thepregnancytester.com/

http://www.firstgenetics.com

http://petsorfood.com/

http://www.hitler.org

http://www.babysmasher.com

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com

http://www.gatt.org/ifront.html

http://www.dowethics.com

I also encourage everyone to check out Howard's article and video on what Hemingway called "crap detection." These are great resources to use when teaching older kids how to really evaluated what information they are coming across when doing research online.
Crap Detection 101
Crap Detection Video

The Microsoft search engine, Bing, has teamed up with Howard to create a curriculum that you can use with kids to help teach evaluation of information. It is a great eBook and best of all it is free!
http://www.microsoft.com/education/teachers/guides/critical_thinking.aspx

Thanks to Howard and Betsy at Bing for joining us in our Special Conversation!

How do you teach kids to think critically? What resources do you use? How can we get kids to really evaluate the information they come across on the web. Leave your ideas in the comments below!

An #Edchat Conversation-Howard Rheingold and Critical Thinking

On Wednesday, June 16, at 5pm PDT/ 8pm EST (Convert To Your Local Time Here), members of the EDU PLN Ning and participants of #Edchat will have the unique opportunity to join Howard Rheingold in a conversation about teaching Critical Thinking. 

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

Crap Detection Video

You can leave your questions below or, better yet, if you are a member of the EDU PLN Ning (and I hope you are) you can visit the forum there and post your question.
**When writing your question please include your first and last name, Twitter name and location. 

**We will use the hashtag #HRChat for the discussion!

(Image from Rheingold.com)



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.