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CBC Radio Canada Documentary: Universities in a Digital Age
read more: CBC Radio Canada Documentary: Universities in a Digital AgeCathy Davidson was recently interviewed for this audio documentary which aired in Canada Sept. 9. Listen online to the archive here. A virtual classroom with hundreds of thousands of participants who will never meet each other. The professor on a screen or, better still, behind one. Tests graded by other students. It sounds like a…
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Library Journal: August 9, 2012
read more: Library Journal: August 9, 2012A lone, but much noticed, voice of disagreement belongs to Cathy Davidson, a professor at Duke who published the book Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn. She acknowledges the problem of attention blindness, our human inability to pay close attention to multiple events…
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Why Web Literacy Should Be Part of Every Education
read more: Why Web Literacy Should Be Part of Every EducationReblogged from Fast Company Co.EXIST WRITTEN BY: Cathy Davidson and Mark Surman Teaching our kids to code will make them uniquely prepared to fully contribute to the world. Like reading, writing, and arithmetic, web literacy is both content and activity. You don’t just learn “about” reading: you learn to read. You don’t just learn “about” arithmetic:…
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Why the Web Needs Educators and Vice Versa (Or, Why I'm a Proud Mozillian)
read more: Why the Web Needs Educators and Vice Versa (Or, Why I'm a Proud Mozillian)Reblogged from Cathy Davidson’s post at HASTAC.org On July 17, 2012, something unusual happened. Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker and Mozilla Foundation Executive Director Mark Surman introduced me as the sixth member of the Board of Directors of Mozilla. I am honored beyond words—and excited about what’s ahead. Like the other Board members, I am doing…
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Cathy Davidson joins Mozilla Foundation Board (Mitchell Baker's Blog)
read more: Cathy Davidson joins Mozilla Foundation Board (Mitchell Baker's Blog)Reblogged from Mitchell Baker’s blog, Lizard Wrangling July 25th, 2012 Please join me in welcoming Cathy Davidson to the Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors. Cathy has been working with Mozilla for some time now, and we are very pleased that she has is joining our Board. Mozillians active in the education, web-literacy, or badges work may have…
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Announcing Now You See It in Paperback
read more: Announcing Now You See It in PaperbackFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Yen Cheong Associate Director of Digital Media and Publicity yen.cheong@us.penguingroup.com / 212-336-2275 The book that has been starting conversations about how we can change our schools and workplaces to seize the future Adopted at UVA, Northwestern, the University of California, and more * Keynotes in 2011-2012 at Cambridge, Harvard, USC, Dartmouth,…
