http://www.gnic.org/blog The Internet is a mental prosthetic. Empower yourself. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:31:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Future-of-the-Internet-IV.aspx A survey of nearly 900 Internet stakeholders reveals fascinating new perspectives on the way the Internet is affecting human intelligence and the ways that information is being shared and rendered. The web-based survey gathered opinions from prominent scientists, business leaders, consultants, writers and technology developers. It is the fourth in a ... http://www.gnic.org/blog/?p=279 Background The Digital Literacy Contest is a competition to search the internet. Students have 30 minutes to answer questions. Correct answers are rewarded, and incorrect answers are penalized. The winners get cash prizes. Universities like Brown, Cornell and Northwestern host the contest for their students. Here's a demo. Interviewing Contest Winners Our team ... http://www.gnic.org/blog/?p=263 Background GNIC hosted essay contests across the U.S. and Canada in fall 2009. Part of the prompt was: [How does the internet change our] intelligence - our memories, attention spans, as well as our abilities to focus, reflect and synthesize? Specifically, shape your argument as a response to Nicholas Carr’s Is Google Making ... http://www.gnic.org/blog/?p=258 Background GNIC hosted essay contests across the U.S. and Canada in fall 2009. Part of the prompt was: [How does the internet change our] intelligence - our memories, attention spans, as well as our abilities to focus, reflect and synthesize? Specifically, shape your argument as a response to Nicholas Carr’s Is Google Making ... http://www.gnic.org/blog/?p=239 Background GNIC hosted essay contests across the U.S. and Canada in fall 2009. Part of the prompt was: [How does the internet change our] intelligence - our memories, attention spans, as well as our abilities to focus, reflect and synthesize? Specifically, shape your argument as a response to Nicholas Carr’s Is Google ... http://www.gnic.org/blog/?p=235 Daniel Kahneman is a psychologist at Princeton University. ...the sense many of us are getting that when we are bathed in information (it is not really snippets of information, we need the metaphor of living in a liquid that is constantly changing in flavor and feel) we no longer know precisely ... http://www.gnic.org/blog/?p=219 NOTE: This contest is over. The deadline was Friday, November 13th, 2009. Thank you to the students who submitted essays. We'll announce the winners soon. Our Digital Literacy Contest tests how well people find and evaluate information online. These are only two parts of 'digital literacy.' What about synthesizing? This fall we're ... http://www.gnic.org/blog/?p=198 This is a new project I'm hosting on my personal blog: Where is humanity going? Our technology empowers the individual, but to what end? This is a (growing) list of people, institutions and concepts central in this discussion of technology and our future (from where I stand). I’m very familiar with everything ... http://www.gnic.org/blog/?p=192 By luck I was in town during the BarcampMilwaukee "unconference." Participants created their own sessions. Topics included: Drupal, veganism, magic & technology, web security and the development of science fiction... Oh yeah, and there was a magnificent potluck. I led a session called 'Brainstorming Brainstorming'. 15 of us collaborated and created ... http://www.gnic.org/blog/?p=184 The Atlantic published Jamais Cascio's Get Smarter in the July/August 2009 issue. It's the first good response to Nicholas Carr's Is Google Making Us Stupid? published a year before. I outlined it using Roland Paris's C.L.E.A.R. model. UPDATE: I asked Jamais for comments on the outline below on 10/3/09. I wanted ... http://www.gnic.org/blog/?p=151