Digital Kids: Smartest or Dumbest? Interview 1: Mark Bauerlein

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Channel: Education Week · 2011 · Education

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Has digital overload made today's generation of students stupid or smart? Two experts debate this question in their new books. Interview with Mark Bauerlein, an English professor at Emory University and author of "The Dumbest Generation." ____________________

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