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Inside Higher Ed, August 9, 2011
read more: Inside Higher Ed, August 9, 2011Reblogged from hastac.org, written by Cathy Davidson. I am an Edu-Traitor. I am a college professor. What I am about to say may well be perceived as supporting attitudes thought to be against the interests and well-being of college professors. Here goes: I do not think going to university should be the be-all and end-all…
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"What Dr. Davidson started turned out to be a tsunami in the use of technology in education. Today we know a lot more about how kids learn and what we need to do to reinvent the curriculum."
read more: "What Dr. Davidson started turned out to be a tsunami in the use of technology in education. Today we know a lot more about how kids learn and what we need to do to reinvent the curriculum."This post originally appeared in The Huffington Post. Kids Are Wired Differently By John M. Eger, Author and Lecturer on Creativity and Innovation, Education and Economic Development In a book to be released later this month (August 18) called Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live,…
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"Now You See It" named one of top three "Brain-y Books" for summer reading
read more: "Now You See It" named one of top three "Brain-y Books" for summer readingReblogged from “Bookish,” a book blog with Maggie Galehouse Allegedly, summer reading is frothy. But for some reason, this summer has brought more than its share of books on the brain and brain science — fascinating stuff but far from the breezy love on the beach stuff we’ve all come to expect when the weather heats…
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NYSI in Kirkus Reviews
read more: NYSI in Kirkus ReviewsA preview of the future from an educational innovator. Davidson (The Future of Thinking, 2010, etc.), who codirects the annual HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning competitions, describes an experiment where most of a group told to count passes between basketball players in a short film fails to spot a person who walks through the…
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Five New Members Join the National Council on the Humanities
read more: Five New Members Join the National Council on the HumanitiesFive New Members Join the National Council on the Humanities WASHINGTON (July 14, 2011) — Jim Leach, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), today swore in five new members of the Endowment’s advisory board at NEH headquarters. The board, called the National Council on the Humanities, consists of 26 distinguished citizens. The…
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Bull City Mutterings: Better to Transform than Whine
read more: Bull City Mutterings: Better to Transform than WhineBull City Mutterings is the personal blog of Reyn Bowman, President Emeritus of the Durham (N.C.) Convention & Visitors Bureau. Opinions expressed here are those of the author. TUESDAY, JULY 05, 2011 Better to Transform Than Whine I’m sorry but with 14 million Americans out of work, I found it hard to listen to people…
