I’m not sure it is possible to resolve the agony and the ecstasy of Steve Jobs, which is to say the agony and the ecstasy of the interconnected world we live in together and interdependently, in complicated ways that defy the elegant simplicity that defines Apple and defined Steve Jobs.
There are many, many reasons why we need Internet activism now. Here are seven good ones. You can add your own. These are basically what Howard Rheingold has called “twenty-first century literacies” transformed into activist principles with some real-world examples
Strangers on a Train A chance encounter provides a lesson in complicity and the never-ending crisis in the humanities. By Cathy N. Davidson Early on in my first tenure-track job at Michigan State University, in the late 1970s, I happened to be riding the same train from Lansing, Michigan, to Chicago as the department chair … In Academe Online, the magazine of the American Association of University Professors
Cathy is excited to be traveling to Chicago for a range of speaking engagements. Catch her for a book reading and signing at the Chicago Public Library on Tuesday, October 4 at 6pm. She will also be giving a keynote address at Training Magazine’s Learning 3.0 Conference, which is open to conference participants. And, Cathy … Cathy heads to her hometown of Chicago!
Bubble tests are the wrong answer. The 1914 inventor of the item-response test, Frederick Kelly, recanted this reductive, standardized way of assessment as soon as the national crisis of a teacher shortage during World War I ended. I tell his story in the Washington Post editorial and at greater length in Now You See It. I also tell the story of so many teachers, parents, educators, and others who are working to find a better way to measure achievement. I am confident that, together, we can find much better answers than A, B, C, D, or none of the above.
Standardized tests for everyone? In the Internet age, that’s the wrong answer. By Cathy N. Davidson, Friday, September 23, 1:55 PM When Frederick J. Kelly invented the multiple-choice test in 1914, he was addressing a national crisis. The ranks of students attending secondary school had swollen from 200,000 in 1890 to more than 1.5 million as immigrants … Washington Post, Sept. 23 (online) & 25 (print)
Listen to the audio or watch the video of Cathy’s talk, NOW YOU SEE IT: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn, at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society on September 20, 2011.
This video shows part of Cathy’s talk at the Vision and Voices Series at the University of Southern California, “Now You See It: Using the Science of Attention to Transform The Way We Live, Work, and Learn,” and part of an interview of Dr. Davidson by students in Tara McPherson’s class.
Cathy Davidson describes the future of education from her book Now You See It. On 09.16.11, in an interview with Bill Frank. Listen to the interview here.
Peer-Driven Learning: I’m No Cathy Davidson I received an interesting set of questions in the comments on my last peer-learning post: I’ve read Cathy’s piece in the Chronicle of HE. I hate to be a bit of a wet blanket but having had some experience of designing, leading and being part of peer driven teaching … College Ready Writing, Sept. 11, 2011