Howard Rheingold is a vanguard figure in participatory learning and a recent winner of the HASTAC Digital Media and Learning Competition, which sponsored the development of his recently unveiled Social Media Classroom. Here’s a screencast that describes the project:
While Rheingold embraces the use of social media tools in the classroom, he also is careful to explore the darker side of social media with his students. Here is an interview between Rheingold and Trebor Scholtz, author of “What the MySpace generation needs to know about working for free” :
