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5 LITERACIES SCRIPT NetSmart:

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How to Thrive Online by Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold is a tech guru who teaches[br]

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at Stanford University.

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In his excellent book Net Smart,

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he proposes five literacies that help you thrive online.[br]

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As you move up through these literacies,[br]

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and improve your abilities in each[br]

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of these five areas, you become more Net Smart,[br]

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which Rheingold says is[br]

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“learning to use social media[br]

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intelligently, humanely

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, and above all mindfully."

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The Bronze Medal ideas[br]

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begins with literacies 3, 4 and 5.

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Net smart users PARTICIPATE,

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COLLABORATE

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, and are NETWORK SMART.

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They PARTICIPATE (Literacy #3):

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Net Smart Users are active

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online participants.

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They blog, they comment on blogs, tweet

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and organize online learning communities,

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to name a few.

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Don’t just sit back and be a passive consumer.

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They COLLABORATE (Literacy #4):

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Collective intelligence is in digital communities

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and forums where we share

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and argue and learn together.

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Research at MIT’s[br]‘Center for Collective Intelligence’[br]

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found the smartest groups took[br]

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turns at sharing

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and were the most sensitive to social cues.

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[br]Also, the smartest groups were

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collectively smarter

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than the "smartest" person on the team.