“I finally finished Cathy Davidson’s new book Now You See It… I am so glad that I decided to adopt this book for my Freshman Writing class on “The Future.” I am excited and invigorated by the hopeful and optimistic tone that the book takes. This is a book that everyone should read. Everyone. But, … College Ready Writing Loves NYSI
“What she attempts to do in her book is offer “a systematic way of looking at our old twentieth-century habits so that we can break them,” and she does so by looking at the latest brain science concerning attention… This is an important and necessary addition to the conversation about how the Internet is affecting … Jack Covert Selects – Now You See It on 800ceoread
“As long as we focus on the object we know, we will miss the new one we need to see,” Davidson writes. “The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb.” The challenge of meeting … The Daily Beast, August 17, 2011
This is the day I’ve been waiting for for almost a year, the launch date of NOW YOU SEE IT. If you pre-ordered it on Kindle or Nook, you received a notice this morning that it is ready for download. If you ordered it from an online bookseller like Amazon, I believe your book is in the mail today and on its way to your doorstep. And, if we’re lucky, it will be out there, on the shelf at our local bookstore . . . Forgive me if I keep this short! I am on the way now to see if I see it at the Barnes and Noble down the street. Very, very exciting. Happy reading, everyone!
“It’s the oldest trick in the book: If you have a boring task, make it seem like fun…For younger children especially, physical activity can help kids concentrate on the activity…Making kids take responsibility for their own conduct also works…Making schoolwork relevant to to a child’s larger community, family or neighborhood is another tactic teachers use … The Wall Street Journal, August 15, 2011
Two Twitter pals who post a lot of good things on education asked me, late last night, me about ten ways to change education. Here’s @catinstack’s 10 late-night tweets on ed reform (w some a.m. edits):
Writing cursive, fast, timely? We’re in transition between old ways of communicating by text in printed books and magazine and new ways of mixing it up on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Linked In . . . What is lost? What is gained? How do we think about writing in a digital world?
Last night, I was part of one of the most remarkable conversations about “kids today” ever. And it came with two actual exercises that any parent or teacher can do with a child and, as a bonus, you can do it yourself right now and have a better day!
“As Ms. Davidson puts it: “Pundits may be asking if the Internet is bad for our children’s mental development, but the better question is whether the form of learning and knowledge-making we are instilling in our children is useful to their future.” In her galvanic new book Now You See It, Ms. Davidson asks, and … The New York Times, August 8, 2011
Reblogged from hastac.org, written by Cathy Davidson. I am an Edu-Traitor. I am a college professor. What I am about to say may well be perceived as supporting attitudes thought to be against the interests and well-being of college professors. Here goes: I do not think going to university should be the be-all and end-all … Inside Higher Ed, August 9, 2011