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
Reblogged from DMLcentral Standardizing Human Ability By CATHY DAVIDSON July 30, 2012 – 1:55pm Here’s a thought experiment. Let’s try to imagine a society (there were lots of them before modernity) where there is no interest in measuring educational success. Let’s imagine a society where the only goal of teaching (it’s a high bar) is to help … New post on DMLcentral: Standardizing Human Ability
Reblogged from Cathy Davidson’s post at HASTAC.org On July 17, 2012, something unusual happened. Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker and Mozilla Foundation Executive Director Mark Surman introduced me as the sixth member of the Board of Directors of Mozilla. I am honored beyond words—and excited about what’s ahead. Like the other Board members, I am doing … Why the Web Needs Educators and Vice Versa (Or, Why I'm a Proud Mozillian)
Reblogged from Mitchell Baker’s blog, Lizard Wrangling July 25th, 2012 Please join me in welcoming Cathy Davidson to the Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors. Cathy has been working with Mozilla for some time now, and we are very pleased that she has is joining our Board. Mozillians active in the education, web-literacy, or badges work may have … Cathy Davidson joins Mozilla Foundation Board (Mitchell Baker's Blog)
You are cordially invited to participate in O’Neal’s first ever summer reading program, featuring Cathy Davidson’s “Now You See It” Read the book. Come hear the author speak. Join the dialogue. Using cutting-edge research on the brain, Duke University Professor, Davidson shows how “attention blindness” has produced one of society’s greatest challenges: acknowledging the digital … O'Neal's first ever summer reading program, featuring Cathy Davidson's "Now You See It"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Yen Cheong Associate Director of Digital Media and Publicity yen.cheong@us.penguingroup.com / 212-336-2275 The book that has been starting conversations about how we can change our schools and workplaces to seize the future Adopted at UVA, Northwestern, the University of California, and more * Keynotes in 2011-2012 at Cambridge, Harvard, USC, Dartmouth, … Announcing Now You See It in Paperback
Tune in to 91.5 FM in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area or to http://wunc.org/ on Monday, July 2 at 12 pm EST to hear Frank Stasio interview Cathy Davidson about her career, education, and past life. Cathy wrote a blog post about her interview here.
Yesterday Frank Statio interviewed me for his hour-long “Meet” show to air on July 2 on North Carolina NPR (WUNC 91.5 FM). An hour is a lot of air time but Frank is a great interviewer, canny and political and engaged. The hour sailed by. And I was fascinated because we ended up not talking about any of the usual things I’m interviewed about, and a number of interesting connections were made that I’ve not made before. A great interviewer does that, pulling out ideas and words you may not have had before. I asked Frank if he knew when something surprising was about to happen. He called it: Bow Wave.