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Mark Bauerlein on Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me Tuesday, May 15th, for live and interactive Future of Education conversation with Mark Bauerlein to talk about his new book, The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking , and how this reflects our perspectives on teaching and learning.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. billion in global annual revenue by 2010, helped immeasurably by hard work and acquisitions. billion in 2010.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 In 2010, it gave $200,000 each to Portland and two other districts to develop plans for “district level system change” focused on “student-centered approaches,” including proficiency-based education.

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The breaking point that led to my sabbatical (and what’s next)

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I’ve spent my free time socializing with other educators and participating in Twitter chats and Facebook groups about teaching. I am not the same person I was in 2003, or 2010, or 2015, and the person I’ll be a few years from now will be different, too. I would spend hours and hours a day on it, and I loved it. .

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Human 2.0

Learning with 'e's

He sees Facebook and other social networks undermining and devaluing friendships. 2003) Natural Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies and the Future of Human Intelligence. 2010) You are not a Gadget. Replacement limbs may not strictly be accepted as a merging of technology and humanity, unless they are robotic limbs. Haraway, D.