Vision of the Future -- Howard Rheingold'S Presentation

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Vision of the Future -- Howard Rheingold'S Presentation
A good talk - recreated as an essay - from Howard Rheingold on the subject of new media literacy and participative learning. After some comments on the need to people to be able to assess online materials, Rheingold looks at the power of these users to organize themselves, giving examples from OhMyNews in Korea. Most interestingly, he describes how the internet can help each person develop a distinctive "voice" and how this voice becomes the "fundamental particle" of public opinion. More...