November 21, 2011 – 3:00am By Scott Jaschik The University of California at Davis has pledged an investigation and has suspended two police officers, but video of campus police using pepper spray against students who were nonviolent and stationary has students, faculty members and civil libertarians stunned and outraged. Read more.
Author Interview: Cathy N. Davidson on 36 Views of Mount Fuji Cathy N. Davidson, the American scholar and author of more than twenty books, honors us by giving an interview on her book 36 Views of Mount Fuji and her discovery of herself on the soil of Japan. Her other books are Revolution and The … Printsasia.com, Nov. 11
No Child Left Behind: The Economic Motive of National Education Policy By Cathy Davidson I’ve often thought about how our national educational policy of No Child Left Behind, passed in 2002, reinforces and connects to the increasing income disparity in the United States. Some of the economic implications of NCLB are obvious, such as the … DML Central, Nov. 9
Q&A: Cathy Davidson on the Brain Science of Attention and Transforming Schools and Workplaces in the Digital Age By Barbara Ray 10.13.11 | In Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn,” Cathy Davidson has offered an antidote to the anxieties about the effects … Q&A on the Spotlight blog, Oct. 13
Plug in – but tune in, too 13 October 2011 An iPad or Kindle does not magically improve education, says Cathy Davidson Because it’s autumn, US universities are busy announcing what new technology they will offer new students. Across the country, institutions of higher education are dispensing Kindles and iPads in the hope that they … The Times Higher Ed, Oct. 13
The Three Biggest Myths About Distracted Youth by Cathy Davidson Whenever I lecture on the science of attention, I hear the same litany of fears from parents and grandparents worried about the distracted state of those born after 1990. Pundits have made an industry of telling us how the Internet has made youth distracted, how … As Seen on The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, Oct. 11
Strangers on a Train A chance encounter provides a lesson in complicity and the never-ending crisis in the humanities. By Cathy N. Davidson Early on in my first tenure-track job at Michigan State University, in the late 1970s, I happened to be riding the same train from Lansing, Michigan, to Chicago as the department chair … In Academe Online, the magazine of the American Association of University Professors
Standardized tests for everyone? In the Internet age, that’s the wrong answer. By Cathy N. Davidson, Friday, September 23, 1:55 PM When Frederick J. Kelly invented the multiple-choice test in 1914, he was addressing a national crisis. The ranks of students attending secondary school had swollen from 200,000 in 1890 to more than 1.5 million as immigrants … Washington Post, Sept. 23 (online) & 25 (print)
Peer-Driven Learning: I’m No Cathy Davidson I received an interesting set of questions in the comments on my last peer-learning post: I’ve read Cathy’s piece in the Chronicle of HE. I hate to be a bit of a wet blanket but having had some experience of designing, leading and being part of peer driven teaching … College Ready Writing, Sept. 11, 2011
‘How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn’ By Whitney Burke September 7, 2011 – 10:00am Reblogged from DML central Duke University’s Cathy Davidson has staked out a reputation as a creative intellectual force committed to remaking the industrial model of education. In 2010, President Obama nominated her … DMLcentral Blog, Sept. 7, 2011