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Top Cat in the Stack Blog Posts of 2011: A Round-Up from www.hastac.org

A friend asked me to do a round-up of my top 10 blog posts as Cat in the Stack on the www.hastac.org website for 2011. Well, I looked over the list and it turns out I write a lot more than I thought! Rather than pick my top 10, I reviewed the Google analytics and then, below, compiled the links to the ones (about 20 or 30 actually) that saw the most traffic. Click on the link and it will take you to the original post.

Futurist Jack Uldrich Releases List of 10 Most Influential Books of 2011

Best-selling author, renowned global futurist and popular keynote speaker Jack Uldrich has released his list for the 10 best books on future trends for 2011 as well as his list of the ten best books on change management. These books are must reads for anyone interested in understanding where the future is headed and/or challenging Futurist Jack Uldrich Releases List of 10 Most Influential Books of 2011

7 key questions to ask about ed technology, online learning, by Cathy N. Davidson

Reblogged from The Washington Post By Valerie Strauss   This was written by Cathy N. Davidson, a Duke professor and author ofNow You See It:  How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn.      By Cathy N. Davidson The outcry against exploitative online for-profit education is growing at roughly the same rate 7 key questions to ask about ed technology, online learning, by Cathy N. Davidson

Seven Rules for Judging Online Learning: Rsp to NYTimes on Wall Street's For-Profit Schools

Luddite teaching that pretends students are not spending lots of time online when they are not in school strikes me as simply irresponsible. Teachers who teach for their past instead of their students’ present and future are as narcissitic as those who simply believe the job is done by dumping the technology in the classroom. It is a similarly insular thinking–an assumption that the “job is done” when one is not doing the real, hard, painstaking, involved work of engaging students in their hearts and passions and imaginations and helping them to learn to thrive in the world they have inherited.

Bookface: A Reader's Online Diary

Reblogged from Bookface: A Reader’s Online Diary MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2011 Now You See It, by Cathy N. Davidson I began this book tentatively, ready to set it down at the first sign of boredom. Given that it’s a book about the science of attention, this preconception already amused me. My attention, however, never wavered. Bookface: A Reader's Online Diary

Tired from All that Multitasking? Blame it on the Revolution.

Tired from All that Multitasking? Blame it on the Revolution. Posted on December 1, 2011 by Jim Sweeney Once upon a time, we went to work for a singular purpose:  to do work.  We dug ditches, directed traffic, operated machinery, sold insurance, created advertising, designed clothing, milked cows and on and on.  And whatever your job was, that Tired from All that Multitasking? Blame it on the Revolution.