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October 26, 2007

A Room With A View: More Media Goodness from Michael Wesch

From the Kansas State University professor Michael Wesch who brought you Web 2.0 The Machine Is Us/Ing Us comes this wonderful new/old story titled A Vision of Students Today, "a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime." While this perspective comes from a higher education setting, there still much to be gleaned for K-12 environments. Enjoy!

Keywords: collaboration, computing, cultural anthropology, culture, educational reform, history, learning, media, media studies, Michael Wesch, participatory culture, school reform, teaching, technology, web 2.0

Posted by Christopher D. Sessums

Comments

Noticed on Facebook that it's your birthday - have a good one, Chris! :-)

Doug Belshaw on Friday, 26 October 2007, 21:46 CEST # |
Christopher,

To be honest I found the video something of an embarrassment. I blogged about why, here:
http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2007/10/27/a-vision-of-students-today-i

Ken Carroll

Ken Carroll on Saturday, 27 October 2007, 17:18 CEST # |
Thank you Doug, I feel I'm getting better with age!
Ken, enjoyed your post. While I do not necessarily agree with your analysis, I recommend that people should check out your thoughts: http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2007/10/27/a-vision-of-students-today-i
-c-

Christopher D. Sessums on Monday, 29 October 2007, 13:55 CET # |