Michael Brecker Noew You See it

When Cathy Davidson and Duke University gave free iPods to every member of the incoming freshman class in 2003, they didn’t expect the uproar that followed. Critics called it a waste: What educational value could a music player have for college kids? Yet by the end of the year, Duke students had found academic uses for the new devices in virtually every discipline.

Professor Davidson brings together diverse and fascinating projects, stories, examples and research in this passionate exhortation on collaboration, intelligence, and technology. Arguing that paying attention to something inherently blinds us to other things, Davidson implores readers to embrace collaboration on the theory that multiple people working on the same problem from different perspectives will compensate for each other's blind spots and lead to vastly improved learning and better solutions.