Bull City Mutterings is the personal blog of Reyn Bowman, President Emeritus of the Durham (N.C.) Convention & Visitors Bureau. Opinions expressed here are those of the author. TUESDAY, JULY 05, 2011 Better to Transform Than Whine I’m sorry but with 14 million Americans out of work, I found it hard to listen to people … Bull City Mutterings: Better to Transform than Whine
Reblogged from Bull City Mutterings, the personal blog of Reyn Bowman, President Emeritus of the Durham (N.C.) Convention & Visitors Bureau. Opinions expressed here are those of the author. TUESDAY, JULY 05, 2011 Better to Transform Than Whine I’m sorry but with 14 million Americans out of work, I found it hard to listen to … Bull City Mutterings: "Better to Transform than Whine"
Reblogged from Publishers Weekly By Will Boisvert Jul 01, 2011 In Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn , Cathy Davidson shows us what’s in front of our noses. You warn about the problem of “attention blindness” in the information age. What is that? … Seeing the Gorilla in the Room: PW Talks with Cathy N. Davidson
View video footage of Cathy Davidson’s talk on Digital Literacies and the Future of the Humanities.
‘Now You See It’ June 24, 2011 Cathy N. Davidson, author of the forthcoming book Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (Viking) could safely be deemed a Never-Better, with perhaps a dash of the Ever-Waser. The major technological changes of the past decade … Inside Higher Ed: 'Now You See It' Q&A with Cathy Davidson
Reblogged from Inside Higher Ed ‘Now You See It’ June 24, 2011 by Serena Golden Recent years have seen a flood of media attention devoted to the relationship between the digital age and the human brain (in these pages and elsewhere; The New York Times has a whole series on the topic). New Yorker writer … Inside Higher Ed: 'Now You See It' Q&A with Cathy Davidson
Cathy Davidson thinks the time has come to reassess our approach … to everything. BY: ANYA KAMENETZ Read the full article.
Reblogged from FastCompany BY: ANYA KAMENETZ July 22, 2011 Davidson is a professor at Duke University, a dyslexic, and a geek: The combination has made her a savvy, realistic, and observant critic of today’s technoculture. | Photograph by Adam Golfer Cathy Davidson thinks the time has come to reassess our approach … to everything. SOMEONE HAS … Duke's Cathy Davidson Has A Bold Plan for Change
Social Media: Savior of Mankind or a Peril Parents don’t quite understand the impact of social media on their children. It is a subject of major debate. We should make the most of the new age of information says Prof. Vivek Wadhwa
There are so many things wrong with techno-determinist claims such as, “the Internet makes us dumber” and “texting makes us lonely” and “Facebook steals our souls” and “even multitaskers are bad at multitasking,” that I barely know where to begin. The neuroscience is bad, the psychology naive, and the perspective on the impact of culture … AGENDA: A Collaborative Solution to Email Overload