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‘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

Cathy Davidson thinks the time has come to reassess our approach … to everything. BY: ANYA KAMENETZ Read the full article.  

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

Reblogged from The Herald Sun – Week’s End Cathy Davidson, internet provocateur, co-founder of Duke University’s HASTAC (pronounced “haystack,” short for the “Humanities, Arts, Science Technology, Advanced Collaboratory” at Duke University) and sometime Herald-Sun guest columnist, has been nominated to the National Council on the Humanities. We are impressed, but not surprised. If the Obama administration … Durham's Herald Sun Announces Davidson's Nomination to the National Council on the Humanities

Vivek Wadhwa‘s BusinessWeek article now appears on MSNBC. Wadhwa 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.msnbc.msn.com/id/43171528/ns/business-us_business/

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

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

Internet instead of universities? This article features HASTAC and Cathy N. Davidson’s “crowdsourced grading,” and looks at how the web is inspiring a revolution in higher education. Just as we expect easy access to information on the internet, the open education movement is shaking up the traditional education system by making teaching resources available for … Education 2.0 in BBC Focus Magazine

A Duke professor who made national headlines last year in announcing plans to turn grading over to her students has been nominated by President Barack Obama to a…