Reblogged from The Globe and Mail CATHY N. DAVIDSON Special to The Globe and Mail Nearly 50 per cent of postsecondary students in America end up leaving without a degree. The data suggest that they drop out because of a shortage of funds or a lack of interest – but also because they do not … A new curriculum for real-world success
Recognized for Visionary Contribution to Science and Technology in Education NEW YORK, N.Y. (October 11, 2012) – The World Technology Networkannounced today that Cathy N. Davidson (Duke University) and David Theo Goldberg (University of California Humanities Research Institute) have been named in the top five Finalists for the prestigious World Technology Award in Education. In 2002, … Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg Named Finalists for 2012 World Technology Award
Future-ish the web-blog fusion tracking science, design, and culture recently released their 2012 list of Stylish Scientists. It was no surprise that Cathy Davidson ranked among the hippest women selected from across a range of fields and scientific pursuits. “Our Stylish Scientist List isn’t about trends and expensive labels,” wrote Future-ish, “its about individuals expressing themselves … Cathy Named to the Stylish Scientist List
Reblogged from the Chronicle of Higher Education Oct. 1, 2012 MOOC Mania It’s raising big questions about the future of higher education By Katherine Mangan Cathy Davidson, a professor at Duke U. and directorco-founder of the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory: “The knee-jerk reaction is to say that MOOC’s are going to save … Chronicle of Higher Ed: MOOC Mania
Cathy Davidson was recently interviewed for this audio documentary which aired in Canada Sept. 9. Listen online to the archive here. A virtual classroom with hundreds of thousands of participants who will never meet each other. The professor on a screen or, better still, behind one. Tests graded by other students. It sounds like a … CBC Radio Canada Documentary: Universities in a Digital Age
The highly talented and highly artistic Giulia Forsythe, recently shared this “Visual Diary” that she created for the “How We Measure” chapter of Now You See It. On a scale of 1 to 10…just kidding! But this image really does knock my socks off! “How We Measure” Guilia Forsythe © 2012, used under a Creative Commons … How We Measure: A Visual Diary
The Labor Day Manifesto Of the Passionate Creative Worker by John Hagel This inspiring, visionary post is reblogged from John Hagel’s website “Edge Perspectives with John Hagel”: http://www.edgeperspectives.typepad.com This is a concise introduction to what he and John Seely Brown call “edge thinking” and “the power of pull” (check out their book of the … Labor Day Manifesto for the Creative Class by John Hagel (an inspiring reblog)
A lone, but much noticed, voice of disagreement belongs to Cathy Davidson, a professor at Duke who published the book Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn. She acknowledges the problem of attention blindness, our human inability to pay close attention to multiple events … Library Journal: August 9, 2012
Reblogged from Fast Company Co.EXIST WRITTEN BY: Cathy Davidson and Mark Surman Teaching our kids to code will make them uniquely prepared to fully contribute to the world. Like reading, writing, and arithmetic, web literacy is both content and activity. You don’t just learn “about” reading: you learn to read. You don’t just learn “about” arithmetic: … Why Web Literacy Should Be Part of Every Education
Matt Richtel, “Blogs vs. Term Papers,” New York Times, January 20, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/education/edlife/muscling-in-on-the-term-paper-tradition.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2012/01/21/should-we-really-abolish-term-paper-response-ny-times