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Radical Media Mind Shift In Progress | Howard Rheingold Get more from Howard Rheingold on Patreon

Radical Media Mind Shift in Progress

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Radical Media Mind Shift In Progress | Howard Rheingold Get more from Howard Rheingold on Patreon

Radical Media Mind Shift in Progress

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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.

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PDF version rheingold.com/ToddlerMetacognition.pdf

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The PDF rheingold.com/ToddlerMetacognition.pdf

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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...

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AI-augmented Learning? Or the end of unaided thinking? | Howard Rheingold Get more from Howard Rheingold on Patreon

AI augmented learning? Or the end of unaided thinking?

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AI-augmented Learning? Or the end of unaided thinking? | Howard Rheingold Get more from Howard Rheingold on Patreon

AI augmented learning? Or the end of unaided thinking?

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Is AI eroding our thinking? | Howard Rheingold Get more from Howard Rheingold on Patreon

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-...

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Is AI eroding our thinking? | Howard Rheingold Get more from Howard Rheingold on Patreon

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-...

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It’s Bad: What Now? - Nancy K. Baym, 2026 This essay reflects on a decade of worsening social media harms—inequality, algorithmic power, precarious labor, and data extraction—arguing for renewed interdi...

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.

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Discord Alternatives, Ranked Building an online community takes more than tools. But the right tool can make all the difference.

Where do we go from here? Excellent write up of some options to escape the enshittification of Discord.

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Building New Learning (Part 3 of 5): Teaching Augmented Humanity “We refer to a way of life in an integrated domain where hunches, cut-and-try, intangibles, and the human ‘feel for a situation’ usefully coexist with powerful concepts, streamlined technology and …

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

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The (Searchable) Whole Earth A searchable archive of the Whole Earth Catalog.

The searchable Whole Earth searchwhole.earth

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Building New Learning Part 1 (of 5): Why I Blew Up My Class My choices of what to attempt and what not to attempt were determined to an embarrassingly great extent by considerations of clerical feasibility, not intellectual capability.— JCR Licklider, “Man-…

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

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electric minds | virtual community directory | alphabetical

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

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Experts warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media Misinformation technology could be deployed at scale to disrupt 2028 US presidential election, AI researchers say

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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

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Experts warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media Misinformation technology could be deployed at scale to disrupt 2028 US presidential election, AI researchers say

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Assembling my complete works | Howard Rheingold Get more from Howard Rheingold on Patreon

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Assembling my complete works | Howard Rheingold Get more from Howard Rheingold on Patreon

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How to Thrive in Wild Times According to cooperation theorist Athena Aktipis ’02, the one thing we really need? Each other.

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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...

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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

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What is the best alternative?

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Should I Substack? Any interest in 30+ years of my writing?

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The Future of Knowledge, and the Fate of Wisdom, in the Age of Information

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mindmap about thinking

mindmap about thinking

bubbl.us/6957219 Interactive mindmap about thinking.

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Concept Mapping & Mindmapping | Howard Rheingold Get more from Howard Rheingold on Patreon

I posted this overview of mindmapping and concept mapping a few years ago

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