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Are You Smarter Than a Teenager?

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Maybe it should be a requirement: before any expert passes a summary judgment on a whole generation, s/he needs to first spend some extended time with actual living, breathing members of that generation. Over and over, I read assessments about “teens today” that seem to homogenize as somehow “deficient” a whole generation that is as complex and diverse as any and every other generation. And “technology” is typically the explanation for this catastrophe of the younger generation.

The Homeless "Among You": What Lisa Lesniak's Compassionate Art Makes Visible

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“Among You” is a beautiful, poignant, even joyful exhibit selected from artist Lisa Lesniak’s series “Drawn To Compassion,” hosted by All Saints Episcopal Church on Friday March 16, from 6-930 PM, at 504 North Camden Drive, Beverly Hills, 90210. The exhibit is of loving, compassionate portraits Lesniak has made of the homeless people she serves as a volunteer “stylist.”

What's the Problem Multiple Choice Tests Solve? What's A Better Way?

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The bubble test, invented in 1914, was designed to solve the problems of variability and efficiency. It was not designed to test higher-order thinking, creativity, problem-solving or learning. If we can find a better way to solve the problem of variability and efficiency, then we can concentrate on the real objective of education: how best to prepare our kids to thrive in the life that they will lead once they are no longer in school.

The Fourth R and the Future of Webmaking

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Want to find out about our Mozilla conversation last week about the future of Webmaking and how we can all have a part in it? The conversation featured myself, Mozilla Exec Dir Mark Surman, and Michelle Leveque–with questions from Web participants in a number of countries. Michelle Thorne of Mozilla has written a great blog about the conversation.

Distraction is Our Friend: Response to NY Times

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Distraction is our friend because it reminds us that we are fully human, not just workers, and that our lives are complex and, trying to shut out the complexity, may in fact turn out to be the least productive way to lead a life. Here’s the url for this beautiful essay by Hanif Kureishi. May it distract your day, and enrich it! Ihttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/opinion/sunday/the-art-of-distraction.html

NEW DATE and TIME: Teaching the fourth ‘R’: a Mozilla fireside chat with Cathy Davidson

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Technical difficulties last time around forced us to reschedule this event.  Please join us on our new date and time: A virtual “fireside chat” with author Cathy Davidson: Thursday, Feb 16 | 1pm PST / 4pm EST Sign up on Lanyrd here How do we teach the web? You’ve heard of “the three ‘R’s:” reading, writing … NEW DATE and TIME: Teaching the fourth ‘R’: a Mozilla fireside chat with Cathy Davidson

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Invisible Gorillas are Everywhere

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January 23, 2012 Invisible Gorillas Are Everywhere By William Pannapacker By now most everyone has heard about an experiment that goes something like this: Students dressed in black or white bounce a ball back and forth, and observers are asked to keep track of the bounces to team members in white shirts. While that’s happening, another student … The Chronicle of Higher Education: Invisible Gorillas are Everywhere

Cathy Davidson to speak at CHAT Festival 2012 on Feb. 7 in Durham, NC

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Cathy Davidson will present at CHAT (Collaborations: Humanities, Art, and Technology) on Feb. 7 at 4:15 pm, on “The Science of Attention and the Future of Education in a Digital Age.” Please join us!  Registration is optional and free, and the event is open to the general public. Location: Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C105 114 … Cathy Davidson to speak at CHAT Festival 2012 on Feb. 7 in Durham, NC

Digital Literacy: An Agenda for the 21st Century

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Digital literacy means not rote learning but experimentation, process, creativity, not just technology but multimedia imagination, expression–and principles too. It means learning why we don’t have to just be consumers of technology but also active participants in its flourishing. Digital literacy helps us to believe in and fight for the Web.