SelfAwarePatterns<p><strong>What is it like to be you?</strong></p><p>In 1974, in a landmark paper, Thomas Nagel <a href="https://www.philosopher.eu/others-writings/nagel-what-is-it-like-to-be-a-bat/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">asks what it’s like to be a bat</a>. He argues that we can never know. I’ve <a href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/2022/05/19/what-does-it-mean-to-be-like-something/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">expressed my skepticism</a> about the phrase “what it’s like” or “something it is like” before, and that skepticism still stands. I think a lot of people nod at it, seeing it as self explanatory, while holding disparate views about what it actually means.</p><p>As a functionalist and physicalist, I don’t think there are any barriers in principle to us learning about the experience of bats. So in that sense, I think Nagel was wrong. But he was right in a different sense. We can never <em>have</em> the experience of being a bat.</p><p>We might imagine hooking up our brain to a bat’s and doing some kind of mind meld, but the best we could ever hope for would be to have the experience of a combined person and bat. Even if we somehow transformed ourselves into a bat, we would then just be a bat, with no memory of our human desire to have a bat’s experience. We can’t take on a bat’s experience, with all its unique capabilities and limitations, while remaining us.</p><p>But the situation is even more difficult than that. The engineers hooking up our brain to a bat’s would have to make a lot of implementation decisions. What parts of the bat’s brain are connected to what parts of ours? Is any translation in the signaling necessary? What if several approaches are possible to give us the impression of accessing the bat’s brain? Is there any fact of the matter on which would be “the right one”?</p><p>Ultimately the connection between our brain and the bats would be a communication mechanism. We could never bypass that mechanism to get to the “real experience” of the bat, just as we can never bypass the communication we receive from each other when we discuss our mental states.</p><p>Getting back to possible meanings of WIL (what it’s like), Nagel makes an interesting clarification in <a href="https://www.philosopher.eu/others-writings/nagel-what-is-it-like-to-be-a-bat/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">his 1974 paper</a> (emphasis added):</p><blockquote><p>But fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is to be that organism—something it is like <strong>for the organism</strong>.</p></blockquote><p>This seems like a crucial stipulation. It is like something to be a rock. It’s like other rocks, particularly of the same type. But it’s not like anything <em>for the rock</em>. (At least for those of us who aren’t panpsychists.) This implies an assumption of some degree of metacognition, of introspection, of self reflection. The rock has <em>overall-WIL</em>, but no <em>reflective-WIL</em>.</p><p>Are we sure bats have reflective-WIL? Maybe it isn’t like anything to be a bat for the bat itself.</p><p>There is <a href="https://www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/uploads/journals/25/AB_C_2019_Vol6(4)_Beran.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">evidence for metacognition in mammals and birds</a>, including rats. The evidence <a href="https://www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?id=1189" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">is limited and subject to alternate interpretations</a>. Do these animals display uncertainty because they understand how limited their knowledge is? Or because they’re just uncertain? The evidence seems more conclusive in primates, mainly because the tests can be sophisticated enough to more thoroughly isolate metacognitive abilities.</p><p>It seems reasonable to conclude that if bats (flying rats) do have metacognition, it’s much more limited than what exists in primates, much less humans. Still, that would give them reflective-WIL. It seems like their reflective-WIL would be a tiny subset of their overall-WIL, perhaps a very fragmented one.</p><p>Strangely enough, in the scenario where we connected our brain to a bat’s, it might actually allow us to experience more of their overall-WIL than what they themselves are capable of. Yes, it would be subject to the limitations I discussed above. But then a bat’s access to its overall-WIL would be subject to similar implementation limitations, just with the “decisions” made by evolution rather than engineers.</p><p>These mechanisms would have evolved, not to provide the bat with the most complete picture of its overall-WIL, but with whatever enhances its survival and genetic legacy. Maybe it needs to be able to judge how good its echolocation image is for particular terrain before deciding to fly in that direction. That assessment needs to be accurate enough to make sure it doesn’t fly into a wall or other hazards, but not enough to give it an accurate model of its own mental operations.</p><p>Just like in the case of the brain link, bats have no way to bypass the mechanisms that provide their limited reflective-WIL. The parts of their brain that process reflective-WIL would be all they know of their overall-WIL. At least unless we imagine that bats have some special non-physical acquaintance with their overall-WIL. But on what grounds should we assume that?</p><p>We could try taking the brain interface discussed above and looping it back to the bat. Maybe we could use it to expand their self reflection, by reflecting the brain interface signal back to them. Of course, their brain wouldn’t have evolved to handle the extra information, so it likely wouldn’t be effective unless we gave them additional enhancements. But now we’re talking about upgrading the bat’s intelligence, “uplifting” them to use David Brin’s term.</p><p>What about us? Our introspective abilities are much more developed than anything a bat might have. It’s much more comprehensive and recursive, in the sense that we not only can think about our thinking, but think about the thinking about our thinking. And if you understood the previous sentence, then you can think about your thinking of your thinking of….well, hopefully you get the picture.</p><p>Still, if our ability to reflect is also composed of mechanisms, then we’re subject to the same “implementation decisions” evolution had to make as our introspection evolved, some of which were likely inherited from our rat-like ancestors. In other words, we have good reason to view it as something that evolved to be effective rather than necessarily accurate, mechanisms we are no more able to bypass than the bat can for theirs.</p><p>Put another way, our reflective-WIL is also a small subset of our overall-WIL. Aside from what third person observation can tell us, all we know about overall-WIL is what gets revealed in reflective-WIL.</p><p>Of course, many people assume that now we’re definitely talking about something non-physical, something that allows us to have more direct access to our overall-WIL, that our reflective-WIL accurately reflects at least some portion of our overall-WIL. But again, on what basis would we make that assumption? Because reflective-WIL seems like the whole show? How would we expect it to be different if it weren’t the whole show?</p><p>Put yet another way, the limitation Nagel identifies in our ability to access a bat’s experience seems similar to the limitation we have accessing our own. Any difference seems like just a matter of degree.</p><p>What do you think? Are there reasons to think our access to our own states is more reliable than I’m seeing here? Aside from third party observation, how can we test that reliability?</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/consciousness/" target="_blank">#Consciousness</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/introspection/" target="_blank">#introspection</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/metacognition/" target="_blank">#metacognition</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/phenomenal-consciousness/" target="_blank">#phenomenalConsciousness</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/philosophy/" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/philosophy-of-mind/" target="_blank">#PhilosophyOfMind</a></p>
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Howard Rheingold<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Painting</span></a> as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metacognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metacognition</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/painting-as-18828426" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">patreon.com/posts/painting-as-</span><span class="invisible">18828426</span></a></p>
DougGlassArt<p>I prompted Gemini & Copilot <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> to collab. They wrote a sci-fi story, but duplicated text word-for-word! 🤔 Interesting <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Gemini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gemini</span></a> showed <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/metacognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metacognition</span></a> , noticing & adjusting the overlap, while <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Copilot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Copilot</span></a> just focused on completing the task Interesting! Have you noticed Gemini's metacognitive abilities? 🤖</p>
Howard Rheingold<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Painting</span></a> as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metacognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metacognition</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/attention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>attention</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mind</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/painting-as-18828426" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">patreon.com/posts/painting-as-</span><span class="invisible">18828426</span></a></p>
Howard Rheingold<p>Prompt: As an expert in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>learning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/attention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>attention</span></a>, and large language models, design a handbook and syllabus for teaching <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metacognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metacognition</span></a> and# infotention. Think deeply.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> </p><p>chat GPT: <a href="https://chatgpt.com/share/6751fe8c-a960-8007-a460-1fa3e409541d" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">chatgpt.com/share/6751fe8c-a96</span><span class="invisible">0-8007-a460-1fa3e409541d</span></a></p>
Howard Rheingold<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Attention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Attention</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Metacognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Metacognition</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/attention-and-15097490" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">patreon.com/posts/attention-an</span><span class="invisible">d-15097490</span></a></p>
Howard Rheingold<p>Designing a Course That Develops Students’ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Metacognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Metacognition</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>learning</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@education" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>education</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.edutopia.org/article/assessing-cognitive-competencies-high-school" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">edutopia.org/article/assessing</span><span class="invisible">-cognitive-competencies-high-school</span></a></p>
Paul Giulan<p>Roots of unwholesome states: <br>(1) Attachment/Greed<br>(2) Aversion/Hate<br>(3) Delusion/Ignorance</p><p>Roots of wholesome states:<br>(1) Generosity<br>(2) Loving-kindness<br>(3) Wisdom (insight into impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and selflessness)</p><p><a href="https://federate.social/tags/buddhism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>buddhism</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/metacognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metacognition</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/mindfulness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mindfulness</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/dhamma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dhamma</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/dharma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dharma</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/humancondition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humancondition</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/praxis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>praxis</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/reflection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reflection</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/EthicalRevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EthicalRevolution</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/PSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PSA</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/FYI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FYI</span></a></p>
Samuel Bell<p>Study closes tomorrow 📡😃</p><p>Exploring metacognition and autistic traits.</p><p>All online, survey and experimental task (~30 mins).</p><p>Link: <a href="https://bellsamuel.github.io/metacognitionresearch/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bellsamuel.github.io/metacogni</span><span class="invisible">tionresearch/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metacognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metacognition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mentalhealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mentalhealth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neurodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ASD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ASD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurodivergent</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anxiety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anxiety</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/masking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>masking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuDHD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></p>
ScienceCommunicator<p>What's your level of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Metacognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Metacognition</span></a>?</p><p>I know the difference, the level, between being explicitly aware of one's own thinking on a meta level, is a wide spectrum, as far as individual differences go. </p><p>Other people's intellectual vanity, which is, ironically, a form of ignorance based arrogance, actually prevents me form sharing my science backed knowledge of psychology with them</p><p>However, when that occurs, truisms, AKA self evident truths, is an effective way to make 'first contact'</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a></p>
Samuel Bell<p>Are you interested in taking part in a research study exploring metacognition and autism? </p><p>Anyone who is over 18 years old can take part. Diagnosed and self identified autistic as well as non autistic adults. This study is all online, but will not work on mobile devices. </p><p>Please consider sharing with anyone who might be interested in taking part.</p><p>I'm sorry, but on this occasion there is no reward.</p><p>Many, many thanks :-)</p><p>Link:<br><a href="https://bellsamuel.github.io/metacognitionresearch/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bellsamuel.github.io/metacogni</span><span class="invisible">tionresearch/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metacognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metacognition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mentalhealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mentalhealth</span></a></p>
Solarbird :flag_cascadia:<p>I had some thoughts on a model of intelligence, an SF novel that made a big splash several years ago, and today's ChatGPT meltdown:</p><p><a href="https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/02/21/chatgpt-metacognition-and-blindsight/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">solarbird.net/blog/2024/02/21/</span><span class="invisible">chatgpt-metacognition-and-blindsight/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.murkworks.net/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.murkworks.net/tags/chatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.murkworks.net/tags/metacognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metacognition</span></a></p>
Howard Rheingold<p>A decade ago, I made a concept map of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metacognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metacognition</span></a> </p><p>Each of the small document icons is a link</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/attention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>attention</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://maaz.ihmc.us/rid=1L4MXV7T1-1LT5NSK-ZYG/Metacognition.cmap" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">maaz.ihmc.us/rid=1L4MXV7T1-1LT</span><span class="invisible">5NSK-ZYG/Metacognition.cmap</span></a></p>
Kate Nyhan<p>Hi <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/medlibs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medlibs</span></a> <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/librarians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>librarians</span></a> <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/infolit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infolit</span></a> <br>We often tell library users, "searching is iterative; keep trying different terms and resources"</p><p>Does anyone have a nice format or template for iterating -- one that invites users to articulate what was unsatisfactory about the previous iteration? Or, "unsatisfactory" sounds very deficit model -- but what else they want to find, or what their goals are for the next round</p><p><a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/metacognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metacognition</span></a> <a href="https://social.esmarconf.org/tags/reflection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reflection</span></a></p>
Howard Rheingold<p>10 years ago I made this 8 minute video for my college students on "Attention to Attention in the Age of Screens"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/attention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>attention</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metacognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metacognition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/edutech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>edutech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/sotfgHKk1dM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/sotfgHKk1dM</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Robert Link<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metacognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metacognition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thinkingaboutthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thinkingaboutthinking</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.learner.org/series/the-learning-classroom-theory-into-practice/thinking-about-thinking-metacognition/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">learner.org/series/the-learnin</span><span class="invisible">g-classroom-theory-into-practice/thinking-about-thinking-metacognition/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.riosalado.edu/news/2022/metacognition-science-thinking-about-thinking" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">riosalado.edu/news/2022/metaco</span><span class="invisible">gnition-science-thinking-about-thinking</span></a></p><p><a href="https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_leading-with-cultural-intelligence/s06-thinking-about-thinking.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">saylordotorg.github.io/text_le</span><span class="invisible">ading-with-cultural-intelligence/s06-thinking-about-thinking.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bold.expert/thinking-about-thinking/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bold.expert/thinking-about-thi</span><span class="invisible">nking/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.thescientificteen.org/post/metacognition-thinking-about-thinking" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thescientificteen.org/post/met</span><span class="invisible">acognition-thinking-about-thinking</span></a></p>
Howard Rheingold<p>I'm beginning to think that before reading, writing, rithmetic -- or in parallel -- young kiddies of the current era need to learn attention mastery and bullshit detection. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>learning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/attention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>attention</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metacognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metacognition</span></a></p>
Howard Rheingold<p>I created this short video for my university students 10 years ago to introduce the need to pay attention to how we are deploying our attention on a moment to moment basis when we are using smartphones, laptops, or PCs -- and introduce a few simple tools for honing metacognition.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/sotfgHKk1dM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/sotfgHKk1dM</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/attention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>attention</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metacognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metacognition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaLiteracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediaLiteracy</span></a></p>
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