Howard Rheingold on essential media literacies 21st century media literacies from JD Lasica on Vimeo: “Increasingly I think the digital divide is less about access to technology and more about the difference between those who know how and those who don’t know how,” he said. He’s convinced that what’s most important is not access to the Internet — we have more than a billion people on the Internet now and there are 4 billion phones out there — but access to knowledge and literacies for the digital age. “The ability to know has suddenly become the ability to search and the ability to sift” and discern. “Skill plus social” is the key. “the difference between those who know how and those who don’t know how” – this is ringing a bell also for the corporate setting (granted, we need this more when thinking about knowledge workers working in ad-hoc and informal multi-project work settings than on the automated shop floor). For Enterprise 2.0 it’s always less about providing the tools but about helping people evolve and develop the methods they need to do their job better (sounds like the real job of the Enterprise 2.0 change management consultant, huh?). And if that helps improve “day to daycorporate life” all the better. Notice also the essential skills (literacies, I call them media competencies): Attention (we need attention management ..) Participation (and empathy I say) Collaboration Critical consumption (having a well-tuned internal crap detector) Update: There’s also a video of Howard Rheingold’s talk on 21st century literacies at the Reboot Britain conference (40 min in totl) here tweet share share share share email RSS feed The following two tabs change content below.BioLatest Posts Martin Koser Latest posts by Martin Koser (see all) Interview with Frank Schoenefeld – “Getting Enterprise 2.0 on track” - 03/11/2009 Adidas’ Internal Communication Team on Enterprise 2.0 - 22/09/2009 Social Media Revolution – really? - 17/08/2009 Related posts: Getting Started with Social Media – Euan Semple at GuruOnline Social Media Revolution – really? What is the OpenText Social Media strategy about? Interview with Craig Hepburn Essential Reading Series: Decentralized instead of flat, digitization of the firm, re-focussing on business & overlapping digital trends! enterprise2open New blog post: Howard Rheingold on essential media literacies http://bit.ly/Nvcf7 This comment was originally posted on Twitter 22/07/2009 at 11:05 AM Pingback: 21ST Century Media Literacies (reminding me of Marc Bolan’s T. Rex) « Fredzimny’s CCCCC Blog Pingback: 21ST Century Media Literacies (reminding me of Marc Bolan’s T. Rex) « Fredzimny’s CCCCC Blog DT RT @enterprise2open Howard Rheingold on essential media literacies http://bit.ly/Nvcf7 – + he was great at Reboot Britain too This comment was originally posted on Twitter 24/07/2009 at 1:16 PM Pingback: A Pirate’s Approach to E2.0 « Fredzimny’s CCCCC Blog Pingback: A Pirate’s Approach to E2.0 « Fredzimny’s CCCCC Blog