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Sputnik or Model T? Why Science Fairs are Failing
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By Davidson on Feb 5th, 2011
  1. Games & Gaming
  2. Sciences & Neurosciences
  1. experiments
  2. games
  3. science
  4. science fairs
  5. STEM
  6. strategy
  7. thinking

Today's New York Times brings us another article on why American kids are failing at science.  This one comes with a twist.  Amy Harmon'...
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Shifting cultures of time and learning (video)
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By Sinreich on Jun 18th, 2010
  1. Sciences & Neurosciences
  2. Culture
  1. brain
  2. culture
  3. future
  4. past
  5. Phil Zimbardo
  6. rewired brain
  7. thinking
  8. time

This is an animation of a brilliant and funny ten-minute talk called The Secret Powers of Time by Stanford professor Phil Zimbardo.  He's an...
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Literally
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By Davidson on Jan 25th, 2010
  1. Arts & Humanities
  1. humanities
  2. steam engine
  3. thinking
  4. Tim Berners-Lee

Yesterday's blog has taken off and is getting lots of comment all over the blogosphere.  It was called "Why Is the Information Age Without...
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How to Prevent Plagiarism in the Search Decade (Esp Your Own)
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By Davidson on Dec 27th, 2009
  1. Academia
  1. digital thinking
  2. plagiarism
  3. Search Decade
  4. thinking
  5. writing

As someone whose original field is English, I possess a finely-honed abhorrence of plagiarism.  How many banal papers have I read that...
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This Is Your Brain on the Early American Novel
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By Davidson on Apr 4th, 2009
  1. Academia
  1. digital
  2. learning
  3. thinking

I've blogged several times this semester about my undergraduate class,"This Is Your Brain on the Internet."  Not so much on my wonderful gradclass...
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Thriving at Failure
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By Davidson on Mar 18th, 2009
  1. Technology
  1. failure
  2. technology
  3. thinking

Clay Shirky, in HERE COMES EVERYBODY, makes the point that the "logicof publish-then-filter means that new social systems have to tolerateenormous...
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DIGITAL TINKERING!
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By Davidson on Feb 3rd, 2009
  1. Games & Gaming
  2. Youth
  1. digital
  2. play
  3. technological imagination
  4. thinking
  5. tinkering
  6. youth

This is a reblog from the MacArthur Foundation's Spotlight blog,including videos and lots of URL's for digital tinkering, brought to usby one of...
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Making Like Kant
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By Davidson on Dec 16th, 2008
  1. Academia
  2. Collaboration
  3. Sciences & Neurosciences
  1. disciplines
  2. interdisciplinary
  3. Kant
  4. mind
  5. models
  6. thinking

Yesterday I was telling someone about the book I'm working on, a newmodel of mind for the digital age, and she asked how I spent my days. Was it...
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Participatory Learning and the Future of Thinking
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By Davidson on Aug 16th, 2008
  1. Academia
  1. education
  2. participatory learning
  3. thinking

Virtually everything we hear about a globalized, networked,interconnected world emphasizes the importance of collaboration,learning by doing,...
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"Digital Learning" versus "IT"
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By Davidson on Aug 18th, 2007
  1. Digital Media & Learning
  2. Technology
  1. digital learning
  2. digitallearning
  3. IT
  4. thinking

IT (Instructional Technology) is indispensable to most educational institutions. Its development and enhancement are crucial to the institution...
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