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

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