Posts by Howard Rheingold
I am trying to teach my 5 year old grandson to think for himself in this age of ai chatbots.. Here is a very short story suitable for a 5 year old.
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I am trying to teach my 5 year old grandson to think for himself in this age of ai chatbots.. Here is a very short story suitable for a 5 year old.
rheingold.com/ToddlerMetac...
I gave chatGPT this prompt:
"generate a literature review with links to sources and an extensive executive summary of peer reviewed research regarding the possibility that using large language models diminishes the human ability to think well"
My write-up is here: www.patreon.com/posts/is-ai-...
I gave chatGPT this prompt:
"generate a literature review with links to sources and an extensive executive summary of peer reviewed research regarding the possibility that using large language models diminishes the human ability to think well"
My write-up is here: www.patreon.com/posts/is-ai-...
An absolute banger of an article by @nancybaym.bsky.social out today in Social Media + Society. She astutely captures so much of what I've felt and observed about social media these days.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Where do we go from here? Excellent write up of some options to escape the enshittification of Discord.
taggart-tech.com/discord-alte...
Students need to learn to use AI as a partner if they don't want to be replaced by it. My latest blog: Teaching Augmented Humanity is up at: wp.me/p8nV8X-Ad @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social
We are training our students to be clarinet players when what we should be training them for is to be conductors. My latest blog: wp.me/p8nV8X-A2 @edufuturist.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social
Before social media, there were virtual communities. Many of them. In 1996 we created a directory:
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In 1998 I started online community, Brainstorms. Before social media sucked attention we had 400+ active members, meets in San Francisco, Memphis, Amsterdam, Melbourne. ~80 people now. For elders who prefer thoughtful discussion over performative posting, algorithms
brainstormscommunity.org
In 1998 I started online community, Brainstorms. Before social media sucked attention we had 400+ active members, meets in San Francisco, Memphis, Amsterdam, Melbourne. ~80 people now. For elders who prefer thoughtful discussion over performative posting, algorithms
brainstormscommunity.org
In 1991, Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir agreed to be in an Interview issue on family if Howard Rheingold, who'd interviewed Jerry for his book Virtual Reality, did it. Fascinating. hrheingold.medium.com/interview-wi...
@hrheingold.bsky.social donated the audio @archive.org archive.org/details/Rhei...
School is a medium for the teaching of knowledge
But most forms of learning don’t require a formal setting or set of procedures—they can operate along the lines of apprenticeship: how-to demonstrations & on-the-job training, whether the task’s to hunt or to sing tales to maintain an oral tradition
What is the best alternative?
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The Future of Knowledge, and the Fate of Wisdom, in the Age of Information
mindmap about thinking
bubbl.us/6957219 Interactive mindmap about thinking.