Cathy Davidson – Changing Higher Education to Change the World

College was designed to prepare students for a 20th-century workplace and it’s not catching up fast enough to the realities of the modern world. How can we overhaul the entire system?

Cathy’s 8 Learning Principles for a Connected Age

1. Embrace Connection, Not Technology
2. Rethink liberal arts as a start-up curriculum for resilient global citizen
3. Breach the silos
4. Champion 21st century literacy: numeracy, reading, writing, WEBMAKING
5. Make sure that what you value is what you count
6. Don’t just flip the classroom…make it do cartwheels!
7. Find creative ways to model un-learning.
8. Take Institutional Change Personally

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During the broadcast, the conversation also took place on Twitter using the hashtag #connectedlearning.

Guests for this webinar included:

• Cathy Davidson (Guest Speaker): Cathy Davidson teaches at Duke University, where she co-directs the Ph.D. Lab in Digital Knowledge and holds two distinguished chairs: Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies. She is a co-founder of the global learning network HASTAC, which administers the annual $2 million HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competitions, and was recently appointed by President Obama to the National Council on the Humanities. Cathy is a frequent speaker and consultant on institutional change at universities, corporations, and non-profits around the world. In July 2012, she was named the first educator on the six-person Board of Directors of the Mozilla Foundation.
• Mimi Ito (Moderator)
• David Theo Goldberg
• Kyle Peck
• Luka Carfagna

Resources for this webinar:

• Abstracts of Cathy’s articles from her Fast Company series
• Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21st Century
• Cathy’s slide deck from this webinar, “8 Learning Principles for a Connected Age” [PDF]
• HASTAC.org: a 9,500+ member global learning network
• EcoMOBILE: Blended learning across virtual and natural ecosystem
• HASTAC.org: The Scoop on MOOCs
• Current/Future State of Education (MOOC)
• MIT Media Lab’s SCRATCH software: imagine, program, share
• Mozilla Webmaker Projects: make. learn. hack.
• Overview of Carroll University’s Cross-Cultural General Education curriculum
• edDefy: education designed for you
• Innovative Assessment Research and Tools Featured at Duke’s Wednesdays at the Center and New PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge
• The Flat Classroom Project: global collaborative project to create students who are competitive and globally-minded
• Surprise Endings: A Public Course Offering by Dan Ariely and Cathy Davidson on Social Science and Literature

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