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What Are Some Better, More Useful Ways to Think About Attention Today?

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Not every wired prefrontal cortex bursting into illumination on a CT-Scan gives us solid, useful information that helps us decide how and what to teach a child, or how to reform the institutions that frustrate us. Having been involved with neurological rehabbing on an intensely personal level, having seen brilliant therapists work with mind and body to rehab both, I am humbled by how much we know and how little about the brain’s abilities and its disabilities, how baffled we ultimately are by the complex thing we like to call “the brain.”

Dangerously Irrelevant blog, Oct. 15

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#MobilityShifts – Day 5: Emerging Learning Environments, Peer to Peer Grading and an Interview with Cathy Davidson “I know I say this every day, but Mobility Shifts is such a good conference. Yesterday I saw Michael Wesch speak, interviewed Cathy Davidson, and then saw her speak along with Geert Lovink and Manu Kapur. I also … Dangerously Irrelevant blog, Oct. 15

Q&A on the Spotlight blog, Oct. 13

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Q&A: Cathy Davidson on the Brain Science of Attention and Transforming Schools and Workplaces in the Digital Age By Barbara Ray 10.13.11 | In Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn,” Cathy Davidson has offered an antidote to the anxieties about the effects … Q&A on the Spotlight blog, Oct. 13

The Times Higher Ed, Oct. 13

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Plug in – but tune in, too 13 October 2011 An iPad or Kindle does not magically improve education, says Cathy Davidson Because it’s autumn, US universities are busy announcing what new technology they will offer new students. Across the country, institutions of higher education are dispensing Kindles and iPads in the hope that they … The Times Higher Ed, Oct. 13

What's It Like To Be On an Author Tour in the Digital Age? (Just ask Parson Weems!)

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It is fascinating being an author in what historian Robert Darnton calls humanity’s fourth great Information Age. Sometimes, it’s Internet all the time. Other times, I feel like America’s first professional author, Mason Locke “Parson” Weems, who plied bestselling novels and other fictions, such as his own The Life of Washington (“I cannot tell a lie! I chopped down the cherry tree!”–which, of course, was itself a fabrication), from town to town, with a horse and cart. He’d enter the town square and shout “Murder! Seduction! Treason!” and people would come running and then he would sell books. Yep, it’s a little like this being an author in the Internet Age.

The Ecstasy and the Agony of Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

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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.

In Academe Online, the magazine of the American Association of University Professors

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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