Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reed C. Hepler

@bringthehuman.bsky.social

3.2K followers 6.8K following 2.5K posts

Digital Initiatives Librarian, Copyright Agent, Archivist, Instructional Designer, Pianist, AI Consultant. #mormonsky #musicsky #aisky #edusky #frasier #infolit #skybrarian #tolkien reedhepler.substack.com heplerconsulting.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · Dec 12

If you try to use #ChatGPT, EVEN the "SearchGPT" function, with #Boolean keywords, you will utterly fail. It is a whole different type of searching the web (and again, you ONLY do that with " #SearchGPT," NOT regular ChatGPT). #onlineliteracy #infolit

reedhepler.substack.com/p/understand...

1 10

Reposted by Reed C. Hepler

Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · 3h

I am delighted with this review of my new book in The New Statesman. The reviewer really gets what the book is all about.

www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

When did opera become elitist?

Alexandra Wilson’s history of the art form in Britain shows how it used to appeal to everyone, from miners to lords

www.newstatesman.com

2 5 20

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 8h

What Mormon TikToker?

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 8h

When I volunteered at the library there was a lady who would come in REGULARLY with her 6yo daughter and scream at her because of her book choices. At the library. In public. In the kids section, with all of the other kids. Then the girl would ask us for help, only to get yelled at for bothering us.

Cory Barger (she/her) @corybee.bsky.social · 20d

I’m at urgent care and there’s this horrible woman with like a three year old and I can’t believe how cruel people are to children, the kid is just being a normal kid and she keeps threatening to spank her

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 10h

Yet ANOTHER book to add to my reading list.

Chelsea @chelseamdo.bsky.social · 11h

As a reminder

Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods by Michael Quinn Patton

is fantastic and I very much appreciate it as I approach my dissertation proposal (and eventual data collection)

I give @drbritwilliams.bsky.social full credit for recommending it

Chelsea @chelseamdo.bsky.social · 12h

Reading the end of this textbook has me like "this 700+ page textbook is all about qualitative research but... What even *is* research?"

1 1

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 10h

@mikecaulfield.bsky.social @opencontent.bsky.social, @anarchistmom.bsky.social, multiple people on LinkedIn, etc.

All because of social media.

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 10h

Half of the most monumental things that have happened in my life, happened because of social media and related technologies.

I, too, met my partner.

I got both of my internships, which led to my job and to my second Masters.

I networked with major voices in all of my fields.

I wrote two books.

Rie @gftomatoes.bsky.social · 11h

I met my partner.

I got to sit at the feet of some amazing religious scholars ( @theradr.bsky.social @wilgafney.bsky.social @solomonmissouri.bsky.social )

I learned that I wasn't the only one who got overwhelmed by laundry or dishes.

I found authors and artists that I never would have seen...

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

1 2

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 11h

I am going to give TECHNOPOLY the chapter-by-chapter treatment I gave COMPUTER POWER. Would anyone like to do a Book Club with me? #bskybookclub #bookclub #edusky #aisky #aiedusky #technology #edtech #idt #instructionaldesign #postman #technopoly

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 11h

For the 1500th time, say it with me:

"Learning styles" do not exist!

There are around 70 MODELS for determining them...

There is no empirical way to assess them...

They are not real. They never were real. They are as real as the benefits of Common Core, or the Bell Curve.

1 5

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 11h

learningdiscourses.com is possibly the most pessimistic site I have ever read, and completely dismissive of any qualitative research and social science in general. They have an impressive map and are excellent at categorizing and connotating the various theories and models, though... which is qual..

Discourses On Learning In Education

learningdiscourses.com

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 11h

Since the #eduskychat hashtag has been essentially silent for a month, let's try to revitalize it! What new theories or movements or books have you read recently that have changed the way you teach or interact with students? #edusky #librarian #skybrary #library #librarysky

Reposted by Reed C. Hepler

Library Think Tank #ALATT @librarythinktank.bsky.social · 18h

Ironically, the Arts were supported originally (from the Baroque Period onward) BY those in financial and political power... and they didn't clamor against it then, even if it criticized them. That's the purpose of the Arts.

Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 23h

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

1 2

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 13h

SAM is just ADDIE in different language.

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 21h

There are so many nuances to this... for instance, there are several Apostles right now who are probably Democrats (although they all deliberately do not declare their political affiliation). And I can tell you there are PLENTY of people who dissent.

Go to downtown SLC... or Ogden...

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 23h

Why does everyone love that book?

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 1d

In 2006, some Mormons made a mockumentary that serves as an excellent satire on the importance of information literacy, critical thinking, and the danger of confirmation bias in research.

In about a month or two, I will publish a blog post.
In the meantime, enjoy!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Tc...

Stalking Santa

YouTube video by Cosmic Pictures

www.youtube.com

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 1d

that it can no longer be factored out without fatally impairing the whole structure.”

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 1d

“The belief in the indispensability of the computer is not entirely mistaken. The computer becomes an indispensable component of any structure once it is so thoroughly integrated with the structure, so enmeshed in various vital substructures,...

1 1 1

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 1d

In the midst of the introduction, all of which is an excellent explanation of the impetus for the book’s creation, Weizenbaum makes this statement about 1960s society which is even more relevant, I believe, to our society today:

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 1d

My longest title yet:

The Case for Human-Centered Use in an AI-Centered World: Weizenbaum's COMPUTER POWER AND HUMAN REASON in the Age of AI

open.substack.com/pub/reedhepl...

#ai #edusky #skybrary #library #instructionaldesign #edtech #research #aisky #librarysky #librarian #aiedusky

The Case for Human-Centered Use in an AI-Centered World: Weizenbaum's COMPUTER POWER AND HUMAN REASON in the Age of AI

My readthrough notes of a MUST-READ work on the abilities (and inabilities!) of computers

open.substack.com

1 1 3

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 3d

Every so often I think about the #ParadiseLost #opera I have conceived in my mind and want to actually write it out, but the rest of the time I am sane.

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 3d

A looot of my Mormon friends need to hear this...

Perennialism is not an anthropologically sound theory in the slightest.

Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 3d

If gentiles would stop assuming all religions are re-skinned Christianity a lot of things - including this website - would be a lot less insufferable.

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 3d

A looot of my Mormon friends need to hear this...

Perennialism is not an anthropologically sound theory in the slightest.

1 1

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 3d

I prefer "agency," and then "free will", but everybody acts like there has to be an adjective. It seems like semantics to me.

It's like that "should we talk about the enabling power of the Atonement". Dragged Bednar through the mud when he was just trying to communicate his understanding.

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 3d

#mormon #mormonsky #ldsconf #genconf

Does anyone else remember in the 1990s/2000sb when we were all obsessed with "free agency"? I very much prefer Bednar's framing.

1 1

Reed C. Hepler @bringthehuman.bsky.social · 4d

The list of my LI posts on Joseph Weizenbaum's "Computer Power and Human Reason," which I read in a day and a half: www.linkedin.com/posts/reed-h...

I will make a blog post out of these posts to put everything textually in one place, and it will likely include more annotation and analysis.

The list of my summary posts on Weizenbaum's "Computer Power and Human Reason": Intro: https://lnkd.in/grVbUrsM Chapter 1: https://lnkd.in/grWJuyk8 Chapter 2: https://lnkd.in/gEGguF...

The list of my summary posts on Weizenbaum's "Computer Power and Human Reason": Intro: https://lnkd.in/grVbUrsM Chapter 1: https://lnkd.in/grWJuyk8 Chapter 2: https://lnkd.in/gEGguFYW Chapter 3:...