Cathy N. Davidson

How IBM Is Changing Its HR Game 9:25 AM Thursday August 18, 2011 by Cathy N. Davidson As IBM celebrates its 100th birthday, many observers are rightly calling attention to the many strategic changes the company put itself through to remain relevant amidst dramatic technological and economic change. But one of the biggest transformations IBM…

“I finally finished Cathy Davidson’s new book Now You See It… I am so glad that I decided to adopt this book for my Freshman Writing class on “The Future.” I am excited and invigorated by the hopeful and optimistic tone that the book takes. This is a book that everyone should read. Everyone. But,…

“What she attempts to do in her book is offer “a systematic way of looking at our old twentieth-century habits so that we can break them,” and she does so by looking at the latest brain science concerning attention… This is an important and necessary addition to the conversation about how the Internet is affecting…

“As long as we focus on the object we know, we will miss the new one we need to see,” Davidson writes. “The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb.” The challenge of meeting…

“It’s the oldest trick in the book: If you have a boring task, make it seem like fun…For younger children especially, physical activity can help kids concentrate on the activity…Making kids take responsibility for their own conduct also works…Making schoolwork relevant to to a child’s larger community, family or neighborhood is another tactic teachers use…

“As Ms. Davidson puts it: “Pundits may be asking if the Internet is bad for our children’s mental development, but the better question is whether the form of learning and knowledge-making we are instilling in our children is useful to their future.” In her galvanic new book Now You See It, Ms. Davidson asks, and…