Reading Notes #2 As we May think

Hi Everyone, This week, we’ll go back to Reading Notes with an article from 1945, Reading Notes #2: “As We May Think.” It’s an interesting time capsule that shows us the kind of thinking about AI’s genesis and the kind of technology we are now using. This is a low-stakes, learning-focused assignment designed to help you actively engage with complex readings and build useful study materials. Your goal is not to summarize everything, but to identify what matters: key concepts, important ideas, definitions, historical context, and relationships between ideas. Your notes should be clear, concise, and organized in a way that would actually help you review for a quiz or build toward a larger project. You may include diagrams, timelines, visuals, or a glossary if they help make sense of the material, not every reading needs every element, but your notes should reflect thoughtful choices about whats most important. You are encouraged to use AI as a collaborative tool to help clarify concepts, organize information, and check your understanding not to copy and paste answers. Youre expected to make your own decisions about what to keep, discard, or reframe. Along with your finished Reading Notes, youll submit your full AI chat log so I can see your process. Grading focuses on how well you identify key ideas, how clearly you explain them, and how useful your notes would be as study material. Think of this as practicing how to work with AI critically while building real academic skills: synthesis, interpretation, and sense-making. this is the prompt my professor gave me.