This is What Your Brain Looks Like on the Internet

Reading a great book called Now You See It by Cathy Davidson.

She was behind the iPods-for-all-freshmen experiment at Duke University a few years back and has written extensively on how the digital age is transforming not only commerce and communications, but the way people learn and how our brains process information in the Age of the Internet.

Well-researched and compelling, her argument stems from the notion that our schools have to embrace the opportunities and challenges this digital revolution has laid at our feet. I've written before that schools in general tend to prepare our students for our past, but not their future. Knowing what to do and how to do that in the classroom is difficult. And controversial.

That being said, her arguments are sound, her reasoning is clear, and her practical advice is compelling and, I believe, very useful for teachers in the classroom today.

I recommend it to anyone who has an interest in the revolution in learning we're currently experiencing.