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How Digital Humanists Can Lead Us to National Digital Literacy
By Cathy Davidson on Jan 29th, 2012
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Here’s the entrance exam question for 21st century literacy:

 

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Why We Need a 4th R: Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic, algoRithms
By Cathy Davidson on Jan 25th, 2012
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Thanks to DML Central for kindly posting my blog today:

Here's what they say about it, and I hope you will respond, leave comments, give us...
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Should We Really ABOLISH the Term Paper? A Response to the NY Times
By Cathy Davidson on Jan 21st, 2012
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When Matt Richtel's name appeared on my cell phone, I felt a moment of dread.   I'm pretty sure I even told him that when he called the...
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How Effective Was the SOPA/PIPA Protest?
By Cathy Davidson on Jan 19th, 2012
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Here's what Wikipedia says about the strike and protest it worked so hard to organize.  

 
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Because We Can: SOPA/PIPA Protest Reminds Us To Work To Keep the Web Open
By Cathy Davidson on Jan 18th, 2012
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It will be yet another social good if a secondary impact of the SOPA/PIPA protest and strike is that we are all reminded that the World Wide Web...
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Public Forums at MLA on "Future of Higher Ed": Jan 5 and Jan 7
By Cathy Davidson on Jan 3rd, 2012
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Happy New Year everyone!  If you are in Seattle this week, come on by the three Public Forums that the Modern Language Association invited me...
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Are Babies Racists? Learning How to Pay Attention in a World of Difference
By Cathy Davidson on Dec 31st, 2011
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Babies aren’t born racist.   Babies aren’t born knowing how or what to pay attention to.
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Blogging 2011: A Round-Up of Top 'Cat in the Stack' Posts
By Cathy Davidson on Dec 29th, 2011
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A friend asked me to do a round-up of my top 10 blog posts as Cat in the Stack on the www.hastac.org website for 2011.  Well, I looked over...
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What's in a Label? Important Findings on Kids' Language
By Cathy Davidson on Dec 28th, 2011
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When is a "dog" not a "dog"?   Probably when it is a dalmation versus a Scottish terrier--that is, when the term itself confuses a 4-6...
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Three Skills Every 21st Century Manager Needs: Free Download from Harvard Business Review Magazine
By Cathy Davidson on Dec 22nd, 2011
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"Deliberately Dividing Attention:   Instead of Fighting Distraction, Embrace Your Brain's Proclivity For It"  by Cathy N. Davidson...
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Co-founder, HASTAC; Co-PI, HASTAC, MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition; aka @CatinStack.
Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies.
Author, "Now You See It: How The Brain Science of Attention Will Transform The Way We Live, Work, and Learn" (Viking).

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