I want my students to feel the power of writing, the power of their writing. I don’t want them to see me as their audience. I want them to see the world as their potential audience.
Feminists in the 1970s used to shout, “Take back the Night!” I want to shout “Take back the Web!”
Reblogged from Steve Wheeler’s “Learning with ‘e’s” website Tuesday, 17 January 2012 10Q: Cathy N. Davidson Cathy N. Davidson first flashed on to my radar last year when the Times Higher Education news magazine invited me to review her new bookNow You See It. When I read the summary, I remembered that Cathy had been the … Steve Wheeler's Q&A with Cathy Davidson
Reblogged from Washington Post. By Cathy N. Davidson It is fascinating to be in Hong Kong this week talking with the nation’s top educational officials and business leaders about new modes of learning for the digital workplace during the release of a new book by Pasi Sahlberg, a leading innovator in the Finnish Ministry of Education. … Washington Post: Cathy Davidson blogs on schools in Finland, Hong Kong
Reblogged from Skip Walter’s blog, “On the Way to Somewhere Else” The Future of Higher Education – MLA Seattle Posted on January 6, 2012 Action driving tweets – who knew that such few characters of text could drive action that leads to engaging learning. A few days ago, Cathy Davidson tweeted that she was headed to Seattle, WA to … The Future of Higher Education – MLA Seattle
The “Happiness” issue of Harvard Business Review (Jan-Feb 2012) is one of the most upbeat, innovative, inspiring, paradigm-altering magazine issues that I’ve read in ages. And not just saying that because I’m in it!
We aren’t born racist. We aren’t born knowing what to value and what to devalue. In fact, babies aren’t born knowing how or what to pay attention to. They learn both, together, at the same time, from the moment they enter the world. Most of the time, they learn values, including racial and gender differences, … Are We Born Racist? Paying Attention in a World of Difference
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.
March 4 / Digital Media & Learning Conference / Long Beach, CA May 3 / Global Futures Conference (Milken Institute) / Los Angeles, CA June 15 / Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, “Digital Futures” / Toronto July 2 / CRASSH, University of Cambridge / Cambridge, UK August 30 / The Country Bookstore / Southern … Cathy Davidson's 2011 Author Appearances
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