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11 Apr 09

Line Up for the Future | Bit By Bit

  • The form of schooling that we engage in that basically privileges people who know a  lot of facts but can’t solve problems with them is on its last legs. It will not be an economically prosperous form of schooling for us.”

City Brights: Howard Rheingold : 21st Century Literacies

  • And don't swallow the myth of the digital native. Just because your teens Facebook, IM, and Youtube, don't assume they know the rhetoric of blogging, collective knowledge gathering techniques of taggers and social bookmarkers, collaborative norms of wiki work, how to tune and feed a Twitter network, the art of multimedia argumentation - and, by far most importantly, online crap detection.
  • I teach courses today on social media issues at Stanford and Berkeley.
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23 Oct 08

Who-ogle Are You? | Bit By Bit

Should we be teaching our students how to create a "googleable" profile for themselves?

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  • She was talking about asking administrators if they “Googled” people before
    hiring them as part of their background check. Most of the people she asked said
    that they in fact did. Sheryl went on to ask them:



    If it’s true that you’re going to Google people and it’s going to impact your
    decision to hire or not hire… then what are you doing to prepare your students
    to be Googled?


    What are you doing to make sure that they’re “clickable”? … This is going to
    become more and more important. If you’re not helping them to connect, if you’re
    not helping them to create, if you’re not helping them to be producers of
    knowledge rather than consumers of knowledge… then you’re not preparing them for
    that vita that they’re going to need, for that résumé that they’re going to need
    in order to be hired in the future.


    If employers are using Google to validate or reference-check people, what
    impression does it give when the search comes back empty? Is that a good thing?
    Is it a bad thing?

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