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Written by Howard Rheingold on 2025-01-22 at 23:24

2012-15 I taught college students infotention, word I used for the particular varieties of #attention mastery necessary online — here is a clickable concept map (Yahoo Pipes) and other tools are

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https://cmapspublic3.ihmc.us/rid=1GGG55974-H3VQRB-J1D/Infotention%20Filters.cmap

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Written by Howard Rheingold on 2025-01-22 at 17:25

I wrote about #attention control as an essential literacy 15 years ago and taught college students about it until I retired 10 years ago. It doesn’t seem that edu institutions have made much progress since then

https://er.educause.edu/articles/2010/10/attention-and-other-21stcentury-social-media-literacies

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Written by Howard Rheingold on 2025-01-21 at 04:50

When combinations of humans and #AI are useful: A systematic review and meta-analysis

(co-author Malone wrote “what makes things fun to learn?” at PARC in early 1980s and led MIT work on group collaboration in 21st century)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06087

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Written by Howard Rheingold on 2025-01-19 at 00:48

[#]ai as a cultural #technology to augment rather than replace human cognition

[#]llm

https://www.patreon.com/posts/ai-for-ia-large-118120516

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Written by Howard Rheingold on 2025-01-18 at 20:08

I wrote recently about #AI for IA (intelligence augmentation) and it looks like Stanford is paying attention. ;-)

"We encourage the university to view goals in this space in line with the philosophy of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) to make sure that the use of AI is centered on improving the human condition. Thus, we prefer to focus on “augmenting human capabilities” versus “replacing humans.”"

[#]technology #ToolsForThought

https://provost.stanford.edu/2025/01/09/report-of-the-ai-at-stanford-advisory-committee/

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Written by Howard Rheingold on 2025-01-17 at 01:16

Susie Ramstein -- the first woman to take LSD

https://chacruna.net/first-woman-to-take-lsd/

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Written by Howard Rheingold on 2025-01-16 at 01:11

Nass and Reeves at Stanford conducted a series of experiments over a decade ago that pretty definitively demonstrated that humans say we know the difference, but treat artifical personae the same way we treat other humans

[#]ai #technology #media

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Media_Equation

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Written by Howard Rheingold on 2025-01-12 at 16:24

what do we learn from our networks?

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/what-do-we-learn-from-networks

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Written by Howard Rheingold on 2025-01-12 at 16:18

an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive regime.

https://survivethetyrant.infy.uk

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Written by Howard Rheingold on 2025-01-12 at 07:33

digitally enhanced acrylic painting after a tile in the Alhambra

[#]artwork #art

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Written by Howard Rheingold on 2025-01-12 at 00:02

watercolor with saturation amped up

[#]art #artwork

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Written by Howard Rheingold on 2025-01-11 at 20:01

[#]neuroscience of #meditation

[#]attention #consciousness #mind

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/392634/how-meditation-works-new-science-consciousness

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Written by Howard Rheingold on 2025-01-10 at 21:03

Contemporary conversational #AI systems based on large language models (LLMs) can engage users on a wide variety of topics, including philosophy, spirituality, and religion.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13223

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Written by Howard Rheingold on 2025-01-06 at 02:19

As a frequent driver in San Francisco I find Waymo annoying. They are the only cars in on the road that obey all laws to the letter. Honking at them is futile.

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Written by Howard Rheingold on 2025-01-06 at 01:00

A Los Angeles man said he recently missed his flight home after getting trapped on his way to the airport in a Waymo that wouldn't stop making circles in a parking lot.

[#]ai #technology

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/los-angeles-man-trapped-circling-174520267.html

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Written by Howard Rheingold on 2025-01-05 at 00:28

I am proud to have assisted a person who meant a lot to me -- my mother -- come back to life from near-death by making #art .

https://www.patreon.com/posts/art-making-and-32282276

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Written by Howard Rheingold on 2025-01-03 at 02:42

Another #watercolor postcard

[#]art #artwork

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Written by Howard Rheingold on 2025-01-03 at 02:14

I've been experimenting with watercolors on wet paper.

[#]artwork #art #watercolor

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Written by Howard Rheingold on 2024-12-31 at 23:25

If I was still #teaching, before first class meeting, I'd ask students to use generative #ai to create their own syllabus for themes of the course (e.g., for social media issues, that would include presentation of self, public sphere, crap detection, etc) Then on day one, we would compare and revise my syllabus.

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Written by Howard Rheingold on 2024-12-31 at 23:24

In last, 10th year #teaching after 3rd class meeting I wrote term assignments on whiteboard w/ my phone number, asked students to revise while I took a walk. They texted questions then texted they were finished. Trust students who are truly passionate about #learning the topic! #Colearning ftw

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