Howard Rheingold

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

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

The searchable Whole Earth searchwhole.earth

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

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
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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

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

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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

What is the best alternative?

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

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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mindmap about thinking

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I 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?

I 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?

2025 Physicians AI report The 2025 Physicians AI Report By Offcall. We polled 1,000+ physicians across 106 specialties to understand how physicians really feel about AI in medicine.

My pcp looked at my chart on his computer screen while querying chatGPT on his phone

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1994: people.well.com/user/hlr/tom...

YouTube video by Amy Burvall Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom Foreword by Howard Rheingold

Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom Foreword

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YouTube video by Amy Burvall Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom Foreword by Howard Rheingold

Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom Foreword

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1994: people.well.com/user/hlr/tom...

Educational institutions proved not to be up to the task over a decade ago when they failed to teach crap detection around internet search.

Bitter 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?

Educational institutions proved not to be up to the task over a decade ago when they failed to teach crap detection around internet search.

Bitter 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?