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/...
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
24.02.2026 14:20 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The searchable Whole Earth searchwhole.earth
26.02.2026 04:13 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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
10.02.2026 13:40 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Before social media, there were virtual communities. Many of them. In 1996 we created a directory:
rheingold.com/electricmind...
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?
06.01.2026 19:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/9/...
The Future of Knowledge, and the Fate of Wisdom, in the Age of Information
mindmap about thinking
bubbl.us/6957219 Interactive mindmap about thinking.
30.12.2025 21:31 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
I posted this overview of mindmapping and concept mapping a few years ago
www.patreon.com/posts/concep...
mindmap about thinking
bubbl.us/6957219 Interactive mindmap about thinking.
30.12.2025 21:31 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0I see that I was added to a blocklist because I posted this article about AI that isn't entirely negative. And I posted a neutral comment about my physician using AI. Is that really how it works around here?
19.12.2025 17:33 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I see that I was added to a blocklist because I posted this article about AI that isn't entirely negative. And I posted a neutral comment about my physician using AI. Is that really how it works around here?
19.12.2025 17:33 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
My pcp looked at my chart on his computer screen while querying chatGPT on his phone
2025-physicians-ai-report.offcall.com
Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom Foreword
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkJg...
Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom Foreword
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkJg...
Educational institutions proved not to be up to the task over a decade ago when they failed to teach crap detection around internet search.
07.12.2025 23:51 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Bitter lesson of the degradation of the online commons: although vendors of digital media failed to recognize it, literacy and know-how are not externalities. Will llm vendors enable their media products to teach people how to use them?
07.12.2025 23:50 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
