Social Network Literacy

I came across these videos by Howard Heingold and found them very insightful.  In them he details how the technological architecture of social networks are designed to allow for user innovation and creativity and how they have revolutionized education.  The world wide web outputs information to recipients.  Recipients next take this information and input it in their own personalized  and/collaborative way.  The experience of using networks places a  new value on information that would not have existed if the data was retrieved using another source.

This led me to think about the obvious connections between the Literacy and Technology class and ,also,  the Information Processing Model.  When educators use this type of lesson structure with their students they are allowing them to discover, interpret and reach personal conclusions in a way that never would have been possible without the use of social networks.  Social Networks truly have restructured the way we retrieve and interpret information.  

Check out Howard Heingold's videos: