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Are Multitaskers Worse at Multitasking?
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By Cathy Davidson on Aug 25th, 2009
  1. Academia
  2. Assessment & Evaluation
  3. Legal, Licensing & Copyright
  4. Sciences & Neurosciences
  1. attention
  2. hierarchy
  3. learning
  4. multitasking
  5. popular media
  6. testing
Are multitaskers really worse at multitasking than those who don't multitask?   If you read the popular media accounts of the new study out...
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What If You Had To Earn Your Grade BEFORE You Took The Class: Or, Heads Up, Yet Again, Dean Baker!
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By Cathy Davidson on Sep 1st, 2011
  1. 21st Century Literacies
  2. Academia
  3. Assessment & Evaluation
  4. Higher Education
  5. Pedagogy & Teaching
Last night, at the Rare Book Room of Perkins Library, I gave the first lecture of my forty-stop tour for Now You See It:  How the Brain Science...
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Why Students Today Complain About Grades—and How We Can Fix It
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By Cathy Davidson on Dec 27th, 2012
  1. Assessment & Evaluation
  2. Higher Education
You are the best teacher in the world and you’ve just turned in your grades for the best class you’ve ever taught.   If you are a college...
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Insurgent Credentials: A Challenge to Established Institutions of Higher Education?
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By Sheryl Grant on Aug 7th, 2012
Digital Media and Learning Competitions, Badges for Lifelong Learning
  1. Assessment & Evaluation
  2. Higher Education
  1. DMLbadges
Michael Olneck, professor of educational policy studies and sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, kindly agreed to let HASTAC upload his...
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"Research": How Peer Review Counts and Doesn't
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By Cathy Davidson on Apr 20th, 2009
  1. Assessment & Evaluation
  2. Careers, Publishing & Tenure
  3. Research & Methodologies
  1. peer review
  2. research
At the panel on Participatory Learning at the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition Showcase, Mimi Ito talked about the...
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Quick and Dirty DH User Testing
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By Amanda Visconti on Oct 31st, 2012
Scholars, Scholar Class 2010, University of Maryland Scholars, Scholar Class 2013, Digital Dissertations
  1. Assessment & Evaluation
  2. Digital Humanities
  3. User Experience & Design
  4. Research & Methodologies
  5. Technology
  1. testing
  2. user testing
Cross-posted from my LiteratureGeek.com blog. I'm using these ideas with my own digital work and dissertation, and would love to hear what kind of...
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Think Like Einstein
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By Cathy Davidson on Dec 4th, 2009
  1. Academia
  2. Assessment & Evaluation
  3. Sciences & Neurosciences
  1. education
  2. evaluation
  3. grading
  4. No Child Left Behind
  5. STEM
  6. testing
I often lecture or blog about  grading, arguing that the way we now assign grades is an antiquated system that may have worked well for the...
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Why Badges Work Better Than Grades
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By Cathy Davidson on Mar 21st, 2011
Badges for Lifelong Learning
  1. Assessment & Evaluation
  1. badges
  2. badging
  3. reward
  4. testing
When the distinguished visitor asked Tim, my very intelligent and media-savvy student, why he was taking my class "This Is Your Brain on the Internet...
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Surprise Endings: Davidson and Ariely Are Up to Pedagogical Mischief!
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By Cathy Davidson on Feb 4th, 2012
  1. 21st Century Literacies
  2. Academia
  3. Assessment & Evaluation
  4. Careers, Publishing & Tenure
  5. Digital Humanities
  6. Digital Media & Learning
  7. Higher Education
  8. Institutions & Organizations
Dan Ariely, the eminent and fabulous behavioral economist (Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality) and I are going to team-teach a class...
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Where's the Courseware Revolution? What If STUDENTS Created Public, Online Courses For Others?
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By Cathy Davidson on May 10th, 2012
  1. 21st Century Literacies
  2. Academia
  3. Assessment & Evaluation
  4. Careers, Publishing & Tenure
  5. Digital Humanities
  6. Higher Education
Is anyone else out there feeling as frustrated as I am by all the "revolutionary" new open courseware and online digital courses being announced that...
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