Mark Warschauer (born abt 1954)[ Mark Warschauer University of California at Irvine] He is the author or editor of eight books and more than 100 scholarly papers on topics related to technology use for language and literacy development, education, and Social exclusion. Warschauer's books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese and have been critically acclaimed in fields as diverse as education, media studies, cultural studies, communication, sociology, and information studies. Warschauer has been a Keynote at conferences in education and applied linguistics throughout the world.
Background
Warschauer served as a faculty researcher and doctoral candidate at the University of Hawaiʻi, where he published several of his early books and also organized two seminal international symposia on technology and language learning. While at the University of Hawaiʻi, Warschauer also founded and edited
the academic jounral
Language Learning & Technology, one of the first
Peer review published on the World Wide Web.
Following Hawaii, Warschauer took a position as director of educational technology on a large language education US Aid project in Egypt.
Since 2001, Warschauer has been a professor in the Department of Education and the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, where he also contributes to the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations and the Ada Byron Research Center for Diversity in Computing and Information Technology. Warschauer is the founding director of the PhD in Education program at UC Irvine, one of the few Graduate school in the U.S. that includes a specialization in language, literacy, and technology.
Major works
Computer assisted language learning
A number of Warschauer publications recognize the potential of technologies for fostering increased learning opportunities for
second language learners. Warschauer's books on the topic, including
Internet for English Teaching,
Virtual Connections,
Telecollaboration in Foreign Language Learning, and
Network-Based Language Teaching, attracted the attention of second and
foreign language teachers and researchers around the world.
In these books, Warschauer critiqued previous views of computer-assisted language learning, which often emphasized its use in teaching grammar and vocabulary, and instead he articulated a vision of global citizenship and agency through online communication and research.
Digital literacy
Warschauer's book
Electronic Literacy: Language, Culture, and Power in Online Education focuses on the particular skills and competency involved in becoming literate in the digital age, and the impact of this
digital literacy on overcoming the marginalization of culturally and linguistically diverse learners.
Warschauer's book Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide argued that , human capital, culture and language are all critical for shaping people's access to and use of new information and communication technologies.
Warschauer's book, Laptops and Literacy: Learning in the Wireless Classroom focuses on the use of laptop in education.
Recognition
Warschauer was the recipient in 1998 of the Educational Testing Service/TOEFL Policy Council Award for outstanding international contribution in the field of technology and language learning.
[ Awards Presented at TESOL] His books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese and have been critically acclaimed in fields as diverse as education,
media studies,
cultural studies, communication, sociology, and information studies. He has been a
Keynote at conferences in education and applied linguistics throughout the world.
Personal life
Warschauer married in 1998.
Loss of his son
On August 8, 2003, the body of Mark Warschauer's first son Michael was discovered in the backseat of his car in the UC Irvine
parking lot. Only 10 months old, "Mikey" had died of
Hyperthermia after Warschauer left him in the car.
Warschauer told police he had intended to take Mikey to a
Day care before going to his office, but had forgotten the boy was with him.
Two months later prosecutors announced that they would not pursue criminal charges against Mark Warschauer, ruling the boy's death accidental.
Following the tragic event, Warschauer became active in groups educating parents about children's safety in and around cars.
He and his wife went on to have three subsequent children.
Sample publications
Authored and co-authored books
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Warschauer, M. (2006). Laptops and literacy. New York: Teachers College Press.
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Warschauer, M. (2003). Technology and social inclusion: Rethinking the digital divide. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.
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Warschauer, M. (1999). Electronic literacies: Language, culture, and power in online education. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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Warschauer, M. (1995). E-mail for English teaching: Bringing the Internet and computer learning networks into the language classroom. Alexandria, Virginia: TESOL Publications.
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Warschauer, M, Shetzer, H. & Meloni, C. (2000). Internet for English Teaching. Alexandria, Virginia: TESOL Publications.
Edited and co-edited books
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Thomas, M., Reinders, H., & Warschauer, M.(Eds.). (2012). Contemporary computer-assisted language learning. London & New York: Bloomsbury Contemporary Linguistics Series.
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Warschauer, M., & Kern, R. (Eds.). (2000). Network-based language teaching: Concepts and practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Applied Linguistics Series.
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Warschauer, M. (Ed.) (1996) Telecollaboration in foreign language learning. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawai'i Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center.
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Warschauer, M. (Ed.) (1995). Virtual connections: Online activities and projects for networking language learners. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaiʻi Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center.
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