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For the past 25 years, iEARN educators, like Deanne McBeath from Trenton, New Jersey, have helped create an alternative to the “us vs. them, online vs. face-to-face, virtual vs. physical” construct.
Perhaps the zero-sum framing of online vs. face-to-face learning and virtual vs. physical exchange is inevitable. Resources are constrained. Our education system is not designed to change at the rate that new technologies are changing our lives. We are warned: Facebook can ruin study abroad.Evidence of the positive impacts of technology on teaching and learning and study abroad have been viewed skepticallyfor decades.
This zero-sum framing also extends to our government’s rhetoric that we must “out-educate” other countries and prepare our children to “out-compete” their peers around the world.
There are other ways to think about education, exchange, technology, and how we want to engage with people in other countries to make a meaningful contribution to…
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