In his book The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman used the terms Globalization 1.0, Globalization 2.0, and Globalization 3.0 as a way to compare and contrast three great eras of globalization. In the fabric of the World Wide Web, people have been using the term Web 2.0 to describe the most recent way in which the WWW is used. Scientific Ameican has recently introduced a new publication, Earth 3.0, in contrast to Earth 1.0 and Earth 2.0 (see the table of comparisons, below).

Over the next several days, I am going to use these ideas to discuss Science Teaching 3.0 (in relation to Science Teaching 1.0 and Science Teaching 2.0). I will try and make connections among the concepts drawn from Thomas Friedman’s use of the term Globalization, the concepts of the Web as envisioned by the originator of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, and the rationale that Scientific American is using for its new publication, Earth 3.0.

Science Teaching 3.0, which has been explored in this blog in other forms will be used to deepen our understanding of humanistic science teaching.

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