Tom Haymes | Substack

Tom Haymes is a professor, author of Discovering Digital Humanity, and creator of the Knowledge Navigator. He explores how AI and systems thinking can augment human intellect. More at: ideaspaces.net....

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Tom Haymes | Substack

Tom Haymes is a professor, author of Discovering Digital Humanity, and creator of the Knowledge Navigator. He explores how AI and systems thinking can augment human intellect. More at: ideaspaces.net....

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The Return of the Creator

Building Our Own Semantic Spaces

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The System Strikes Back

Why we can't have human-centered things

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Tom Haymes | Substack

Tom Haymes is a professor, author of Discovering Digital Humanity, and creator of the Knowledge Navigator. He explores how AI and systems thinking can augment human intellect. More at: ideaspaces.net....

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Building New Learning (Part 5 of 5): Back to Basics

For newcomers then the purpose is not to learn from talk as a substitute for legitimate peripheral participation; it is to learn to talk as a key to legitimate peripheral participation. – Jea…

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Building New Learning (Part 4 of 5): Navigating Conflicting Currents

The pupil is thereby “schooled” to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His im…

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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 …

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Building New Learning (Part 2 of 5): Beyond the Mimicry Trap

“It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his ow…

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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-…

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There is No Why in AI

“It is in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough—it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.” – Steve…

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The Looking Glass Writer: AI and the End of the “Perfect” Idea

“Give a man a book, and you entertain him for a night. Teach a man to write, and you give him crippling self-doubt for life.” — Andy Weir, 2015 I recently completed a research paper for publication…

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We Need the Enlightenment Now, More Than Ever

A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people …

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Democratizing Critical Thinking with AI Tools

“It is an epistemological mystery why traditional education has so often emphasized extensiveness and coverage over intensiveness and depth.” – Jerome S. Bruner As I continue to i…

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Critical AI

“The purpose of education is knowledge, and yet education is blind to the realities of human knowledge, its systems, infirmities, difficulties, and its propensity to error and illusion. Educa…

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Augmenting Course Redesign and Learning with AI

“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 …

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Part III: A Maker World

“Tools provide a path, a context, and almost an excuse for developing enlightenment, but no tool ever contained it or can dispense it. Cesare Pavese observed: to know the world we must construct it…

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Making Opportunity with AI: Part II of the Maker World

“To extend our abilities to think and perceive in new ways, and to translate those into tools that enable others to think and perceive in new ways, is probably the essential part of the human…

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Democratizing Imagination: Part 1 of the Maker World

“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was insignificant in comparison with ours. B…

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Creating With Machines

“Every time there is a new technology, there is a paranoid faction of less than brilliant artists who feel that that’s the end of their career; who don’t understand that art never dies; that techno…

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Augment, Don’t Automate: Using AI to Speed Work and Learning

“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 Licklid…

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We Will All Construct AI: Five Principles For Getting It Right

“Technological systems contain messy, complex, problem-solving components. They are both socially constructed and society shaping.”  – Thomas P. Hughes “It’s the questions we can’…

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Nothing In, Nothing Out: Creativity, Art, and AI

“The work of art is valuable only in so far as it is vibrated by the reflexes of the future.” – André Breton As I’ve been exploring the AI world and using it for my own creative f…

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Unflattening Ideas

“And today, the book is already, as the present mode of scholarly production demonstrates, an outdated mediation between two different filing systems. For everything that matters is to be found in …

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Unshackling Innovation: AI, Copyright and Our Right to Share Ideas

“To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” – Article 1, Sec…

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Escaping the Silo: How AI Can Help Us See

“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” – John Gilmore We are prisoners of narrative. This is because we struggle to make sense of a world that seems too complex for o…

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The Unfinished Evolution: We’re Still Waiting for AI’s Durable Mutation

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us. – Marshall McLuhan The spreadsheet is a tool, and it is also a world view — reality by the numbers. If the perceptions of those who play …

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The AI Revolution Will Be Small

There is a world market for maybe five computers. – Thomas Watson, CEO of IBM in 1943 Knowledge is power and so it tends to be hoarded. Experts in any field rarely want people to understand w…

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