Reblogged from Cosmos Magazine Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work and Learn by Cathy N. Davidson Viking Books 2011 A LOT HAS CHANGED in 50 years. Schools, workplaces and even the nature of how we work has been fundamentally redefined with the advent of … Cosmos – The Science of Everything reviews Now You See It
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
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.
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
Reblogged from Forbes Lots of articles and columns wax on with advice for business leaders. They usually boil down to one or more of these objectives: how to attract/retain talent how to grow how to be innovative According to consultant Dev Patnaik, these challenges look different but they’re not. They can be achieved with a … The Power Of Hybrid Thinking, Forbes 12/5/11
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.
DEC. 1, 10 A.M. The newsonomics of tomorrow What seemed not long ago like science fiction is closer to becoming science fact. How will that change the ways in which we report, distribute, and consume the news? By KEN DOCTOR
If individual achievement in highly specialized research with quantifiable results is key to the Industrial Age, then what kind of knowledge and what forms of education are key to our digital Information Age?
An interview with Cathy Davidson, Duke University professor and author of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn. Listen here.
High-tech clicks … but only for some schools By JOE ROBERTSON The Kansas City Star KEITH MYERS [A student in Kelly Finn’s high-tech classroom at The Barstow School, 13 -year-old Ryan Olson used his convertable tablet computer as he led a recent discussion for a writers workshop class. The school puts new technologies to work … Kansas City Star: High-tech clicks … but only for some schools