Syllabi

Social Media Literacies (Based on Net Smart)

First taught at Stanford, Winter 2013. Editable Google Doc version (ask me for editing privs) and editable Google Doc high school version (ask me).

Virtual Communities/Social Media

I’ve taught this course at Stanford since 2007. I also taught an earlier version of this course at U.C. Berkeley’s School of Information and Department of Sociology.

Digital Journalism

I taught this course at Stanford 2005-2010.

Introduction to Mind Amplifiers

This is the first course I offered via Rheingold U. It changes with each iteration, in response to co-learners. It has been through five iterations so far.

Introduction to Cooperation Theory

This grew out of the 2005 Stanford seminar and my work with Institute for the Future. I’ve offered it twice, so far.

Social Media Literacies

I was invited to create this proposed course for Stanford’s Winter 2013 quarter; it’s working its way through the academic bureaucracy. Here is a forked version that I’m expanding for college (and eventually high school) instructors everywhere.

Stanford University Faculty Page

Minicourses

With the html assistance of Joey Mornin, I developed a series of standalone mini-courses that include videos, links to resources, and a feed from my Diigo/Delicious tags for the topic.

Network Literacy

The Public Sphere in the Age of the Internet

Cooperation Theory

Infotention

Crap Detection

Learning Platforms

The Social Media Classroom (2008)

I received an award from HASTAC/Macarthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning competition, which I used to pay developer Sam Rose to create a browser-based, free and open source, social media classroom with forums, blogs, wikis, social bookmarks, and mindmaps.

Social Media Lesson Plans – scaffolding for educators who teach and learn social media (2008-2010).

The Peeragogy Project (2012)

When I was invited to deliver the Regents Lecture at UC Berkeley this year, I proposed a lecture about my experiences using social media in teaching and learning, leading up to a proposed project: students would join me in two face-to-face seminars of about two hours; between face-to-face meetings we would meet online via forum, wiki, and one live session with the Blackboard Collaborate platform. We would be joined by others online who might not have attended the lecture and/or face to face seminars, with the objective of creating a living resource for self-organized groups of self learners — a peeragogy handbook that would complement existing resources such as the book in progress by Joe Corneli and Charles Danoff, including guidelines and annotated resource guides to methods, theories, tools, examples, and more. A year later, a core community of around a dozen, supported by another dozen, continues to improve the Handbook For Self-Learners.

Videos/Presentations

Roundtable on Reinventing Learning (March 7, 2013)

Connected Learning Session on Peeragogy (April 10, 2012)

UC Berkeley Regents’ Lecture: Toward Peeragogy (January 25, 2011)

Using Social Media in Learning and Co-Learning eXtension (2011)

One of the first times I presented about this subject was for an online seminar for eXtension, which recorded it — audio, video, slides, chat.

Collab Tech 2010 Keynote: Social Media, Participative Pedagogy, and Digital Literacies May 16, 2010)

Articles By Howard

Attention and Other 21st Century Literacies Educause Review (2010)

A preview to my book, addressed to educators interested in technology, about essential social media literacies, starting with attention.

Attention Literacy SFGate (April, 2009)

“The point of this story isn’t to get everyone to pay attention to me or professors in general – it’s that I want my students to learn that attention is a skill that must be learned, shaped, practiced; this skill must evolve if we are to evolve.”

Mindful Infotention: Dashboards, Radars, and Filters (September, 2009)

“Infotention is a word I came up with to describe the psycho-social-techno skill/tools we all need to find our way online today, a mind-machine combination of brain-powered attention skills with computer-powered information filters.”

Is Multitasking Evil, Or Are Most of Us Illiterate? Encyclopedia Britannica Blog (2009)

I was asked to comment on an article about distraction by Maggie Jackson, a technology critic whose opinions I don’t always agree with but do respect.

Participative Pedagogy for a Literacy of Literacies Freesouls (2011)

Joi Ito asked a number of his friends to contribute to a book of his cc-licensed photographs of people in the digital culture and social media worlds. Joi is now director of MIT Media Lab.

Blogeando en Ciencias de la Educacion: Pedagogía Participativa para una Alfabetización de … (2008)

Spanish translation of my article, “Participatory Pedagogy for a Literacy of Literacies” Pedagogía Participativa para una Alfabetización de Alfabetizaciones  12/31/2008

R.I.P.: Lectures, Notes, and Tests (Scrapping the Old Ways) Encyclopædia Brittanica Blog (October 27, 2008)

“Before I got to Wesch’s notion of a ‘crisis of significance,’ I had probed my students about exactly what was going on with them, and it was clear that they had been bored for years.”

Entrepreneurial learning in the networked age Paradigmes no. 1. Talent management (December 2008)

“How new learning environments foster entrepreneurship and innovation” [PDF Document] Coauthored by Max Senges, Stanford University, and John Seely Brown, University of Southern California and member on the NPRI Internacional Advisor Panel

Using Participatory Media and Public Voice to Encourage Civic Engagement (2007)

Teaching young people how to use digital media to convey their public voices could connect youthful interest in identity exploration and social interaction with direct experiences of civic engagement. Learning to use blogs, wikis , podcasts  and digital video as media of self-expression, with an emphasis on “public voice,” should be considered a pillar—not just a component—of twenty-first-century civic curriculum.

Blog Posts for DML Central (2010, 2011, 2012)

I interviewed educators who use digital media innovatively, including video interviews and blog posts. Thanks to master editor Jeff Brazil for illustrations, headlines, copy-editing.

Assessment: Turning a Blunt Instrument into a Powerful Learning Tool (November 26, 2012)

Elizabeth Lawley: “Just Press Play” — Adding a Game Layer to the Undergraduate Experience (October 29, 2012)

Passion, Projects & Play: Restoring Creativity in the Classroom (October 4, 2012)

The “Presence Project” and the “Be Here Now Box”: Digital Media & Family Attention (September 17, 2012)

Global Transmedia MOOCS (August 30, 2012)

Professor Alec Couros: The Connected Teacher (July 26, 2012)

Hacking the Curriculum 101 (July 9, 2012)

George Couros: Why School Administrators Should Embrace the Social Web (June 28, 2012)

DIY U: Interview with Anya Kamenetz (May 9, 2012)

Reality, the Game: A Video Interview with Jeff Watson on Fostering Peer Learning via Play (April 27, 2012)

Teaching Teachers, Honoring Learners: Interview with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach (April 20, 2012)

Four-part Peeragogy Series

Toward Peeragogy (January 23, 2012)

Learning Reimagined: Participatory, Peer, Global, Online (July 22, 2011)

Pop-up University (April 28, 2011)

D.I.Y.U. : An Experiment (February 21, 2011)

Bryan Alexander: Emerging Learning Technologies (February 7, 2012)

Steve Hargadon: Reimagining Education as Networked, Participatory, Social, Global (December 19, 2011)

Democratizing Learning Innovation (October 6, 2011)

Re-imagining Media for Learning (September 29, 2011)

Seeing the Classroom as a Hub of Technology-enabled Social Change (September 20, 2011)

Mitch Resnick: The Role of Making, Tinkering, Remixing in Next-Generation Learning (September 13, 2011)

Digital Media and Learning Conference 2012: Learning Innovations in a Connected World (September 8, 2011)

How does Digital Media impact Youth Political and Civic Engagement? (May 26, 2011)

Einstein, YouTube, and New Media Literacies in the Connected Age (March 28, 2011)

Mozilla Drumbeat: Open Web Meets Open Learning (January 6, 2011)

Learning, Playing, Designing: Video Games in School (October 21, 2010)

Shelly Terrell: Global Netweaver, Curator, PLN Builder (October 15, 2010)

It’s the Learning, Not the Technology – Jessica K. Parker (June 30, 2010)

It’s an amazing time to be a learner – Will Richardson (June 1, 2010)

Librarian 2.0: Buffy J. Hamilton (May 3, 2010)

Diana Rhoten: The Science of Reimagining Learning (March 29, 2010)

The Social Media Classroom (December 29, 2009)

Meet Meredith Stewart: Teacher…Innovator…Collaborator (December 3, 2009)

Getting into College? There’s a Game for That (November 20, 2009)

Esther Wojcicki’s H.S. Journalism Learning Community (November 5, 2009)

Articles About Howard

2012

Creating Students’ Survival Guide to the Web, by Ann Michaelson (February 14, 2012)

A co-learner in one of my Rheingold U courses, herself an educator, creates a quick and useful students’ survival guide to the web, using my advice.

2011

Social Media’s Slow Slog Into the Ivory Towers of Academia The Atlantic (2011)

“Underpinning a disdain for social media in higher education is the assumption that incoming students have an inherent aptitude for new technologies.”

Project Information Literacy interview with Howard re: the myth of the digital native, digital literacy  (January 3, 2011)

The first time I taught university students, “I had not expected that so many laptop-carrying, one-handed-texting millennials would not know how to self-organize via wikis or to express critical and reflective opinions on blogs.”

2010

Interview with Howard Rheingold, eLearn magazine (February 2010)

“There is a significant change in the role of the teacher as the authority. Rather than the authoritative deliverer of knowledge, they’re the chief learners. So a lot of these are very challenging to institutions and to people who are familiar with old ways of doing things”

21st Century Literacies, Part 1 of 2, Social Media Club (August 24, 2010)

“Earlier this summer I sat down with Howard Rheingold to talk about his ideas for 21st Century Literacies. The result is a two part video.”

Beyond J-School, MediaShift (August 31 2010)

“We convened a group of journalism educators, a trainer, a student and a J-school dropout to discuss how journalism education is shifting.”

Do I have your attention? Howard Rheingold’s Balloon Experiment, F2F in the Mediated Classroom (November 10, 2010)

Of everyone I’ve been reading lately, Howard Rheingold is the most innovative thinker about attention in the f2f in networked classrooms. Check out these two tweets about a social experiment he ran in his class today:

2 show capabilities of social networks, my ingenious students placed balloons arnd campus, challenged others 2 ask friends 2 locate them

Students sent SMS, tweets, Facebook updates @ start of class. An hour later, one student had located 11 balloons through her social network

2009