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BusinessWeek Article Features "Now You See It"

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Vivek Wadhwa’s article in the May 24th Bloomberg BusinessWeek discusses how the Internet will not rot your brain—or those of your children. Web communications will better connect us all with the world. He’s interviewed Cathy Davidson who dismisses the doomsday scenarios one hears on a daily basis. She says we don’t need new research to prove that the Internet has changed how we live.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2011/tc20110524_792362_page_2.htm

It's NOT the Technology, Stupid! Reponse to NY Times "Twitter Trap"

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The Internet doesn’t make us shallow, stupid, distracted, lonely, or soulless–we do that to ourselves. It’s not about the technology. It’s about humanity, and how we choose to adjust and to transform our institutions to support the real world we all live in now, not the fantasy world we like to remember through rose-colored classes.

But Whose Fault? A Response to the Nation's 'Faulty Towers' Essay

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If the US now ranks with Russia and Iran as nations with greatest difference between its richest and poorest occupants, what does that mean for the future of American culture and values? Those are the key questions. It all goes together. And, returning to the Nation article, it is incumbent on all of us–all of us in academe, in all fields, and all of us who are simply interested in the future of education and the future of our world–to work together towards rectifying increasing inequalities before they engulf us all.

Times Higher Ed Cover Story

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Cathy Davidson’s article in the Times Higher Ed, wherein she discusses how about 100 years ago, higher education restructured to meet the needs of the industrial age. It has changed little since, even as the internet has transformed life. Another revolution is needed, says Cathy Davidson, to modernise universities and prepare graduates for a 21st-century working environment. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=415941&c=2

So Last Century: Hightlights from Times Higher Ed Cover Story

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I’m delighted my Cover Story, “So Last Century,” about the state of current higher education–how we got this way and how we can do better–just came out in Times Higher Education (UK). It is already being circulated to deans and college presidents, according to various emails and Facebook postings and tweets I’m reading. Here are some highlights to whet your appetite: the lead, a few tidbits, some promising programs that are prototyping change—and the url.

Googlizing the Taylorization of Everything

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The ways our two books intersect is that Now You See It proposes institutional and personal strategies for dealing with the googlization of everything. The current worlds of work and school are inheritances; they evolved as ways of dealing with the 20th century’s Taylorization of everything. There is no better analysis than Siva Vaidhyanathan’s of why we should worry about the Googlization of everything. I’m proposing productive ways to transform our 21st century worries into an impetus for change, for systematic rethinking of how we live, work, and learn in what, as Siva Vaidhyanathan so eloquently and persuasively argues, is the Empire of Google.

Teaching MBA's to Tweet

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Here’s the bottomline: You do not understand social media by teaching business students how to Tweet. Understanding the importance of social media today requires deep social rethinking and it also requires reimagining education for the digital age