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The Dumbest Generation – revised
22Oct08
Right after I had written my post on Bauerlein’s provocative interview/book, I read the post, Mr Sperl wrote about our first session. And it got me started to think about several other points behind Bauerlein’s topics. I was then when I realized that he did not only talk about my future students’ generation, but about [...]
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Mark Bauerlein, professor of English at Emory University, published his book The Dumbest Generation – How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (or: Don`t Trust Anyone Under 30) in 2007. He argues that today’s teenagers are too distracted by the new media, such as social networking pages (facebook.com, myspace.com), cell phones, [...]
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