The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I’ve used The Brain for projects and for teaching. It’s an infotention tool in terms of advancing the way one transforms information into knowledge in a personally and visually organized form. If you haven’t seen The Brain, check out Jerry’s Brain. By Design: Let Your Creative Vision Lead the Way!
I’ve used Netvibes as an RSS reader for years. I particularly how easy it is to sync my attentional priorities to my on-screen info-flow by dragging higher priority tabs to the left and positioning the most important feeds at the top of their tab pages. If I am more pressed for time, I can just …
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Thinking systematically about how you use information flows and your cognitive processes to gather, test, evaluate knowledge is key to the internal aspects of infotention. A Student-Centred Conceptualisation of Critical Thinking One of the defining features of human evolution is the emergent capacity of human beings to think about thinking. The ability to think about …
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When I teach infotention, I show learners how they can curate Twitter lists and use Paper.li to turn the lists into daily briefings by networks of experts on topics of their choosing. Curating, focusing, distilling, and formatting incoming streams of information about precisely the topics that interest you at any time is a key infotention …
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Again, this is from the productivity world, and infotention has an important core related to attention — not just tools, not just efficiency, but awareness and metacognition — but I know that at least a couple of these tools help me handle my info-flow (I use Slack and Skitch regularly) 12 Tech Tools Productivity Experts …
Maria Popova is a great curator. Brain pickings is a great infotention tool — she spends a lot of time and well-thought-out decision-making about what is good to share. “We live in a world awash of information, but we seem to face a growing scarcity of wisdom,” states Maria Popova, Founder of the website Brain …
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This fellow is an infotention superstar. He understands that the tools he uses are means of augmenting his memory, an he knows how to connect tools such as IFTTT, Instapaper, and Evernote. I’m going to start adopting some of the methods Steve recommends. Consolidating Personal Knowledge “This post is the second in series on how …
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