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
Cathy spoke to a packed house at CUNY Graduate Humanities Center on Monday, September 13. Thanks to Kandice Chuh for a great action shot! Can you see the gorilla???
Two upcoming events at universities in New York City are free and open to the public. Come on out! Monday, September 12, @CUNY, 6:30pm CUNY Graduate Humanities Center Tuesday, September 13, @NYU, 5pm New York University, The Humanities Initiative
When Duke University decided to give free iPods to its 2003 incoming freshmen class, a whole slew of critics reproached the university asking why give students an unneeded source of distraction? The results of this experiment were surprisingly positive. By the year’s end, students found very creative ways to use the iPods in their respective … 89.3 KPCC | Southern California Public Radio