The New Education, with Cathy Davidson

Cathy Davidson shares about her book, A New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux on episode 169 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We’ve divided things up into very strange and restrictive categories in a world where those categories are completely merged and mixed and changing every minute. —Cathy N. Davidson Every generation has some new technology which we’re convinced is going to destroy us. —Cathy N. Davidson I believe in being skeptical about technology and therefore learning how to use it well. —Cathy N. Davidson Resources The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux by Cathy Davidson* How a Class Becomes a Community: Theory, Method, Examples (Cathy shares about class constitutions) Quizlet More or Less Technology in the Classroom? We’re Asking the Wrong Question, by Cathy Davidson in FastCompany Revolutionizing the University for the Digital Era, by Michael Roth in The Washington Post An Educator Makes the Case that Higher Learning Needs to Grow Up, by Craig Calhoun Design Learning Outcomes to Change the World, by Cathy N. Davidson American Colleges Will Fail Kids Without These Five Crucial Upgrades, by Pamela Swyn Kripke Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.