Cathy N. Davidson coauthored an op-ed for Inside Higher Education with Senior Program Officer at the Andrew Mellon Foundation Dianne Harris, author of Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America(Minnesota UP, 2012) and a former dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Utah. In “Making Remote Learning Relevant,” … “Making Remote Learning Relevant,” Op-Ed by CND and Dianne Harris
Cathy N. Davidson and New College Classroom coauthor Christina Katopodis presented at ASU’s REMOTE Summit on July 13, 2020. Watch the full session here: Teaching online magnifies the choices we have made in our onsite courses. The dull lecturer at the podium easily becomes the sleep-inducing talking head on Zoom. In this presentation, learning and … REMOTE Summit 2020
On Monday, July 13, Cathy N. Davidson presented “Trust Your Students” with Christina Katopodis at the REMOTE summit hosted by Arizona State University. The talk was about co-learning and using active learning tools like Think-Pair-Share and Entry and Exit Tickets to support peer-to-peer learning in a community, whether onsite or online. At the session, there … CND at ASU’s REMOTE Summit
Ahead of the REMOTE summit hosted by Arizona State University, Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis wrote an op-ed for Times Higher Ed on June 26, 2020, titled, “Trust Your Students to be Active Participants in their Learning.” We write: “If the words ‘plexiglass’ and ‘physical distancing’ dominate every aspect of your institution’s plan for … “Trust Your Students” Op-Ed in Times Higher Ed by CND and Christina Katopodis
Cathy N. Davidson is appearing in an MLA webinar on Wednesday, May 27, 2020 with other leading higher education thinkers about how colleges and universities are changing and must change in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some questions the webinar will address include: Can the current crisis help us confront long-standing issues and build … MLA Webinar: “Is Higher Education Learning from the Pandemic?”
In a recent post on HASTAC.org, published on May 11, 2020, which has since received over 37,000 views, Cathy N. Davidson writes, “Trauma is not an add on. From everything we know about learning, if the trauma is not addressed, accounted for, and built into the course design, we fail. Our students fail. None of us needs another … “The Single Most Essential Requirement in Designing a Fall Online Course”
On May 13, 2020, Inside Higher Ed published an op-ed by Cathy N. Davidson in which Davidson urges, “While we are all working at home, let’s use the occasion to examine the status quo … including rethinking homework.” Read the full article here.
Inside Higher Ed published an op-ed by Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis on March 23, 2020: “Rethinking how we assess, test and grade our students gives not only them but also instructors needed flexibility during an impossible time…” Read the full article here. Together, Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis are writing a book, … “In a Pandemic, Everyone Gets an Asterisk,” IHE Op-Ed by Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis
On March 11, 2020, Inside Higher Ed published an op-ed by Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis: “As more classes gravitate online due to the coronavirus, we must eschew the technocratic utopianism that implies that, simply by teaching remotely, professors are doing their jobs…” Read the full article here. Together, Cathy N. Davidson and Christina … “Transforming Your Online Teaching from Crisis to Community,” IHE Op-Ed by Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis
What do our students lose by not taking humanities courses? In the latest issue of MLA’s Profession, Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis argue that they lose too much. “If we believe the mission statements of most humanities departments, what students lose when they do not take humanities courses includes critical reading and creative thinking … “Changing Our Classrooms to Prepare Students for a Challenging World” by Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis