An op-ed piece by Cathy Davidson on Fast Company’s blog Adding some technology to the educational process is one thing, but truly revolutionary learning experiences take a deeper sort of innovation, which you can see at a program at Duke working for change in Haiti. Read the rest.
Cathy recently wrote a piece for Fast Company about reinventing higher education to better prepare students for the 21st Century and the digital age. Check it out here!
“GALVANIC.”–Virginia Heffernan, New York Times.
January 23, 2012 Invisible Gorillas Are Everywhere By William Pannapacker By now most everyone has heard about an experiment that goes something like this: Students dressed in black or white bounce a ball back and forth, and observers are asked to keep track of the bounces to team members in white shirts. While that’s happening, another student … The Chronicle of Higher Education: Invisible Gorillas are Everywhere
5 Ideas to Support Innovation in Higher Ed February 6, 2012 – 8:26pm By Joshua Kim What would you say if you were asked to list the 5 principles, ideas, actions, steps, or investments you would make to support and catalyze innovation in learning and scholarship at your institution? Here are my 5 ideas, and I’m … Inside Higher Ed: 5 Ideas to Support Innovation in Higher Ed
This Thursday, January 26th, humanities scholar and Duke professor Cathy Davidson will be giving a talk here at Dartmouth, at Filene Auditorium in Moore Hall at 5pm. She’ll be discussing her latest book, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn. According to Davidson, “distraction … Cathy Davidson to speak at Dartmouth!
Reblogged from Steve Wheeler’s “Learning with ‘e’s” website Tuesday, 17 January 2012 10Q: Cathy N. Davidson Cathy N. Davidson first flashed on to my radar last year when the Times Higher Education news magazine invited me to review her new bookNow You See It. When I read the summary, I remembered that Cathy had been the … Steve Wheeler's Q&A with Cathy Davidson
Reblogged from Washington Post. By Cathy N. Davidson It is fascinating to be in Hong Kong this week talking with the nation’s top educational officials and business leaders about new modes of learning for the digital workplace during the release of a new book by Pasi Sahlberg, a leading innovator in the Finnish Ministry of Education. … Washington Post: Cathy Davidson blogs on schools in Finland, Hong Kong
Reblogged from Skip Walter’s blog, “On the Way to Somewhere Else” The Future of Higher Education – MLA Seattle Posted on January 6, 2012 Action driving tweets – who knew that such few characters of text could drive action that leads to engaging learning. A few days ago, Cathy Davidson tweeted that she was headed to Seattle, WA to … The Future of Higher Education – MLA Seattle
Best-selling author, renowned global futurist and popular keynote speaker Jack Uldrich has released his list for the 10 best books on future trends for 2011 as well as his list of the ten best books on change management. These books are must reads for anyone interested in understanding where the future is headed and/or challenging … Futurist Jack Uldrich Releases List of 10 Most Influential Books of 2011