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 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
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
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
5 Ideas to Support Innovation in Higher Ed February 6, 2012 – 8:26pm By Joshua Kim What would you say if you were asked to list the 5 principles, ideas, actions, steps, or investments you would make to support and catalyze innovation in learning and scholarship at your institution? Here are my 5 ideas, and I’m … Inside Higher Ed: 5 Ideas to Support Innovation in Higher Ed
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 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.
From Mozilla: Feb. 1, 2012 12 pm – 1 pm EST Sign up here. Join us for a presentation and chat with leading author and academic Cathy N. Davidson, hosted by Mozilla Executive Director Mark Surman. In her recent Washington Post article, “A fourth “r” for 21st century literacy,” Cathy writes: ‘What basic skills do … Cathy Davidson to present on the "4th R: algoRithm"; Mozilla Fireside (virtual) Chat Feb. 1: Open to the public!
This Thursday, January 26th, humanities scholar and Duke professor Cathy Davidson will be giving a talk here at Dartmouth, at Filene Auditorium in Moore Hall at 5pm. She’ll be discussing her latest book, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn. According to Davidson, “distraction … Cathy Davidson to speak at Dartmouth!
Cathy Davidson and Michael Hogan at the Chicago Humanities Festival