March 2013
I have had a blast this semester teaching with my friend and colleague Dan Ariely. He’s everything you want a teacher to be–smart, engaged, funny, attentive, candid, direct. He and I are teaching in a wonderful experimental course where the students work in teams, setting the syllabus and… [ MORE ]
10 Rules for Making Smart Decisions (Despite Our Attention Blindness)
Next week, I’m giving a presentation to forty CEO’s and CIO’s from Fortune 100 companies on how the science of attention blindness can help us make decisions. These “10 Rules for Smart Decisions (Despite Our Attention Blindness)” distill all the funny stories, serious experiments, and pretty hilarious examples. … [ MORE ]
Three Most Important Things We Can Do To Help Prepare Students For Their Future (Not Our Past)
Why Learn in Public? A Valentine’s Day Special
In Surprise Endings: Social Science and Literature, the Duke class I team-teach with behavioral economist Dan Ariely, we explore the deepest aspects of human behavior, as learned in empirical social science experiments and as discussed by some of the greatest writers in the world. But we also explore this… [ MORE ]
You Want to Know What It Really Feels Like To Be Learning Disabled?
For two days, I sat glumly in a higher-powered meeting of program directors for a famous philanthropic organization frustrated that I was unable to log in to my laptop to be able to do the exercises others were doing around me. It was a very simple log in: “Username: … [ MORE ]
Why Do We Need a Bill of Rights for Learners Today?
Yesterday, a group of us went public with a document we’ve been working on, together and collaboratively, since December 13, 2012: Our “Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in a Digital Age.” The reason I signed on to this project is because the attention to online learning… [ MORE ]
Size Isn’t Everything
Reblogged from the Chronicle of Higher Ed
For academe’s future, think mash-ups not MOOC’s
By Cathy N. Davidson
My reading material to and from London recently for the annual open-source programming event known as Mozfest, or the Mozilla Festival,included two glossy magazines focusing… [ MORE ]
Universities in the Digital Age (Hour 2)
Reblogged from: CBCradio
–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 dystopian education nightmare.
But in 2012, the future of the university has… [ MORE ]
Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg Recognized with 2012 World Technology Award
Recognized for Visionary Contribution to Science and Technology in Education
NEW YORK, N.Y. (October 24, 2012) – The World Technology Network recognized Cathy N. Davidson (Duke University) and David Theo Goldberg (University of California Humanities Research Institute) as winners of the prestigious World Technology Award in… [ MORE ]
Changing Higher Education to Change the World: A Connected Learning Webinar
Connected Learning recently invited Cathy to give one of the organization’s weekly webinars. Her presentation, “Changing Higher Education to Change the World” sparked a lively and fruitful discussion with a range of participants from all over the country. You can read the livestream chat here, and view the… [ MORE ]
Cathy Davidson on how the brain science of attention will change our lives
01.15.2012
“To the Best of Our Knowledge” interviewed Cathy Davidson about distraction, meditation, and her newest book, Now You See It. Check out the interview here.
Duke University’s Cathy N. Davidson is the author of “Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We… [ MORE ]
Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg Named Finalists for 2012 World Technology Award
Recognized for Visionary Contribution to Science and Technology in Education
NEW YORK, N.Y. (October 11, 2012) – The World Technology Networkannounced today that Cathy N. Davidson (Duke University) and David Theo Goldberg (University of California Humanities Research… [ MORE ]
Chronicle of Higher Ed: MOOC Mania
Reblogged from the Chronicle of Higher Education
Oct. 1, 2012
MOOC Mania
It’s raising big questions about the future of higher education
By Katherine Mangan
Cathy Davidson, a professor at Duke U. and directorco-founder of the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory: “The… [ MORE ]
How We Measure: A Visual Diary
The highly talented and highly artistic Giulia Forsythe, recently shared this “Visual Diary” that she created for the “How We Measure” chapter of Now You See It. On a scale of 1 to 10…just kidding! But this image really does knock my socks off!
Labor Day Manifesto for the Creative Class by John Hagel (an inspiring reblog)
The Labor Day Manifesto Of the Passionate Creative Worker by John Hagel
This inspiring, visionary post is reblogged from John Hagel’s website “Edge Perspectives with John Hagel”: http://www.edgeperspectives.typepad.com This is a concise introduction to what he and John Seely Brown call “edge thinking”… [ MORE ]
Why Web Literacy Should Be Part of Every Education
Reblogged 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… [ MORE ]
Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory Photographs by Bill Bamberger
The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age Co-authored with David Theo Goldberg
Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America
36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age Co-authored with David Theo Goldberg
Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America
36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
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