Cynthia Peterson's List: Wikis

• Learning to use online forums, be they social network services like MySpace and  Facebook, blogs, or wikis is not a sexily contemporary add-on to the curriculum  - it's an essential part of the literacy today's youth require for the world  they inhabit.

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• The way today's students will do science, politics, journalism, and business  next year and a decade from now will be shaped by the skills they acquire in  using social media, and by the knowledge they gain of the important issues of  privacy, identity, community, and the role of citizen media in democracy.
  

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• Whether digital media will be beneficial or destructive in the long run doesn't  depend on the technologies, but on the literacy of those who use them.
  

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• Just because they're on Facebook and chat online during class and can send text  messages with one hand does not mean that young people are acquainted with the  rhetoric of blogging, understand the way wikis can be used collaboratively, or  know the techniques necessary for vetting the validity of information discovered  online.

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• Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies amplify human  talents for cooperation.

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