The latest Beloit College Mindset List says that students in the college class of 2014 don’t know how to write in cursive and think email is too slow. Duke professor Cathy Davidson will discuss how students are learning in a digital age during a live “Office Hours” webcast conversation Friday, Sept. 3, beginning at noon on the Duke University Ustream channel.

Online viewers are invited to ask Davidson a question, in advance or during the session. To do that, send an email to live@duke.edu, tweet with the tag #dukelive or post a comment on the Duke University Live Ustream page on Facebook.

Davidson, the Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, raised eyebrows when she created a grading scheme for her course “This Is Your Brain on the Internet,” in which students evaluated one another. “What this teaches my students is responsibility, credibility, judgment, honesty and how to offer good criticism to one’s peers — and, in turn, how to receive it,” she explained.