Category Archives: Information Society

AI literacy – my current position statement

Posted on November 16, 2025 by Tryggvi Thayer

Recently, most of my work has been focused on AI in education, particularly genAI. There’s a lot to be said and a lot to be done and I’m hoping to get back into some blog action and start posting somewhat … Continue reading →

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Types of social media: My framework

Posted on September 17, 2015 by Tryggvi Thayer

For several years, I have been using a framework for classification of types of social media that I have attributed to boyd & Ellison, 2007. I first used the framework in a seminar that I taught at the University of … Continue reading →

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Why doesn’t Google want me to have the nice things?

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Tryggvi Thayer

One of the things that I do in my work is to encourage people to be aware of the technological changes taking place around them and try to get ahead of the change; to think about future possibilities for education, … Continue reading →

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Smoothing space for collaboration and innovation

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Tryggvi Thayer

I delivered a keynote at an eTwinning workshop being held in Reykjavík, Iceland this weekend. My slides are below. The context (i.e. what I said as opposed to only what’s in the slides) is that knowledge creation is dependent on … Continue reading →

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Seamless technology integration in a program designed by and for high school students

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Tryggvi Thayer

I came across a video recently about a program offered at Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington, MA, a public school where high school students have the option of completing their final year with an independent study program. The … Continue reading →

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Filter Bubbles: A challenge for information literacy in the 21st century

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Tryggvi Thayer

The future is a strange beast. We’re always actively constructing it but we never know what the future will actually be. A seemingly insignificant occurrence in the present can emerge as the essential foundation of a future construct and, what’s … Continue reading →