Cathy Davidson
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New York City October 10-16, 2011 www.mobilityshifts.org The Future of Learning Friday, October 14, 5:00 p.m. Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center 66 Fifth Avenue Using cutting-edge research on the brain and learning, this talk will explore how the phenomenon of “attention blindness” shapes our lives, and how it has led to one of the greatest problems of our historical moment: Although we email, blog, tweet, and text as if by instinct, too many of us toil in schools and workplaces designed for the last century, not the one in which we live. We can change that. Approximately fifteen years into industrial- era management science, the medieval university began its rapid metamorphosis into the modern twentieth-century research university. Now, fifteen years after the commercialization of the Internet and the World Wide Web, we are at an optimal moment for reconsidering these fundamental institutions for our own era. This talk asks how we can use technology as an engine of transformation. This talk helps us to think in historical, theoretical, and practical ways about how, as individuals and institutions, we can learn new ways to thrive in the interactive, digital, global world we already inhabit. Cathy N. Davidson: Davidson has served as the Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English at Duke University since 1996 and has held a second distinguished chair as the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies since 2006. She has served in leadership roles at Duke and a variety of organizations and has authored or edited eighteen books. Her work for the last decade has focused on technology, collaboration, cognition, learning, and the digital age. Davidson was born in Chicago, received her B.A. from Elmhurst College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Binghamton University. She also has done postdoctoral studies at the University of Chicago and was presented with Honorary Doctorates from Elmhurst College and Northwestern University. Her most recent book, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn will be published by Viking Press in Fall 2011. Dr. Davidson also chairs Duke University's Digital Futures Task Force, whose university-wide open access policy was unanimously accepted by Duke's Academic Council last spring. please visit www.mobilityshifts.org/register1 to register
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Cathy Davidson as part of Mobility Shifts: An International Future of Learning Summit http://mobilityshifts.org October 10-16, The New School, NYC Register now at: http://mobilityshifts.org/register1/
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New York City October 10-16, 2011 www.mobilityshifts.org
The Future of Learning Friday, October 14, 5:00 p.m. Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center 66 Fifth Avenue Using cutting-edge research on the brain and learning, this talk will explore how the phenomenon of “attention blindness” shapes our lives, and how it has led to one of the greatest problems of our historical moment: Although we email, blog, tweet, and text as if by instinct, too many of us toil in schools and workplaces designed for the last century, not the one in which we live. We can change that. Approximately fifteen years into industrial-era management science, the medieval university began its rapid metamorphosis into the modern twentieth-century research university. Now, fifteen years after the commercialization of the Internet and the World Wide Web, we are at an optimal moment for reconsidering these fundamental institutions for our own era. This talk asks how we can use technology as an engine of transformation. This talk helps us to think in historical, theoretical, and practical ways about how, as individuals and institutions, we can learn new ways to thrive in the interactive, digital, global world we already inhabit.
Cathy N. Davidson: Davidson has served as the Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English at Duke University since 1996 and has held a second distinguished chair as the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies since 2006. She has served in leadership roles at Duke and a variety of organizations and has authored or edited eighteen books. Her work for the last decade has focused on technology, collaboration, cognition, learning, and the digital age. Davidson was born in Chicago, received her B.A. from Elmhurst College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Binghamton University. She also has done postdoctoral studies at the University of Chicago and was presented with Honorary Doctorates from Elmhurst College and Northwestern University. Her most recent book, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn will be published by Viking Press in Fall 2011. Dr. Davidson also chairs Duke University's Digital Futures Task Force, whose university-wide open access policy was unanimously accepted by Duke's Academic Council last spring.
please visit www.mobilityshifts.org/register1 to register
