This podcast features Howard Rheingold’s keynote presentation at the Australian School Library Association (ASLA) Biennial Conference - Hearts on Fire - held in Adelaide 2-5 October.
Howard’s presentation at the ASLA conference provided participants with a journey through the evolution of human communication and the ability to organise collective action. Outlining how the development of the ability to communicate, coordinate, organise and build - new forms of economic production emerged.
The narrative Howard Rheingold builds provides a range of different examples to show the potential of collaboration and social networking. He also talks about the challenge of literacies in the future - “to introduce people to the broad interdisciplinary understanding of how we do things together.” It is this challenge where he sees that librarians have a major role to play in linking disciplines together.
After listening to Howard Rheingold’s presentation - watch - Information R/evolution - a short video by Michael Wesch (you will probably remember seeing another video Wesch produced Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing Us) - the video provides a representation of the development of information and communication - the final frame of the video asks us - the viewer - if we are ready for the Information R/evolution.
Another video on YouTube by Michael Wesch, which is definitely worth a look at is A Vision of Students Today
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[…] Having recently heard Howard Rheingold’s talk on co-operation for the second time, I picked up on something I missed first time around. The phrase ‘a little more co-operation’ has been bouncing round my brain as I think about the place of the *Read/Write Web in the world of scientific research. […]
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