Posts Tagged ‘generation conflict’

Since I was not able to take part in the fieldtrip to Steinmühle, my task was/is to interview a student (grade 5-13) and get some information about his or her experiences with and thought about the use of new media at school.
The interview was very interesting and contained many different thoughts, which I will present [...]


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 [...]


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, [...]