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
Demonstrators calling for resignations and reforms in the wake of officer pepper-spraying UC-Davis protesters By Lisa M. Krieger lkrieger@mercurynews.com Posted: 11/22/2011 06:32:40 AM PST Updated: 11/22/2011 08:11:58 AM PST Images of police dousing students with pepper spray at UC Davis and jabbing them with batons at UC Berkeley drew national condemnation and set off new protests … San Jose Mercury News: Outrage mounting over UC police treatment of protesters
November 21, 2011 A Plea to College Presidents: Exercise Your Moral Leadership Wayne Tilcock, The Enterprise, AP Images A campus police officer sprays protesters at the U. of California at Davis in an incident that has galvanized the Occupy movement and led to calls for the chancellor’s resignation. Enlarge Image By Cathy N. Davidson On … Chronicle of Higher Education: "A Plea to College Presidents: Exercise your Moral Leadership"
What is wrong with a cop who walks calmly in front of a group of seated students, steadily shaking a can of pepper spray so he can better spread it over them like it’s a bug spray he’s applying to a nest of hornets? That was the question that I asked myself as I watched … Independent Voter Network, Quiet Davis campus set to demonstrate its outrage over pepper spray incident
November 21, 2011 – 3:00am By Scott Jaschik The University of California at Davis has pledged an investigation and has suspended two police officers, but video of campus police using pepper spray against students who were nonviolent and stationary has students, faculty members and civil libertarians stunned and outraged. Read more.
Please, dear College Presidents, stop sending the police. This should not be a time to beat up our students, to spray them with mace or pepper juice, to kick and hit them, and, horrifyingly, to point assault rifles at them, finger on the trigger, as if waiting to shoot at the least provocation. STOP! STOP! We need to take in what is happening and change course. It is not too late. University leaders across the nation need to step back, think about what is happening, and be on the side of justice and right and, in the end, on the side of education. That is what our students want, and we want that too. We need wisdom and passion and moral vision. That is what we all say higher education is for. It’s a Gettysburg moment. I very much hope our university leaders will claim it.
The mentality of policing and regulating teachers is contributing to the national crisis of many of the best teachers leaving the profession. According to the National Education Association, about half of new teachers do not stay in teaching . In a U.S. Department of Education survey of 7000 teachers who had recently quit or said they were likely to quit soon , the #1 reason given was intrusive administration; another was cumbersome and ineffective accountability procedures.
For photos, excerpt from Now You See It, and blog post, please visit http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2011-11-15/distractions-friend-or-foe.