Recently appointed by President Obama to the National Council on the Humanities, Cathy N. Davidson has published more than twenty books, including Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (Viking Penguin 2011) and The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (with David Theo Goldberg, MIT Press 2010). Cathy Davidson teaches at Duke University, where she co-directs the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge and holds two distinguished chairs (Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies). She served as Duke’s first Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies and helped to create the Program in Information Science + Information Studies and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. She is a cofounder of the global learning network HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), with over 10,000 members. HASTAC administers the annual $2 million HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competitions and has awarded and mentored eighty-nine Connected Learning projects in over twenty countries. In October 2012, she and HASTAC cofounder David Theo Goldberg received the Educator of the Year award from the World Technology Network in recognition of their “visionary contribution to science and technology in education.” Davidson is the first educator to be invited to join the Board of Directors of Mozilla.
Cathy Davidson's first album The History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education released on Mon Dec 30 2013.
The most popular album by Cathy Davidson's is The History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education
The most popular song by Cathy Davidson's is 2.4 - Attention
Cathy Davidson's first song How a Class Becomes a Community: Theory, Method, Examples (Chapter One) released on Thu Jan 01 1970.