A Portal to Media Literacy
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Presented at the University of Manitoba June 17th 2008. (for those of you waiting for the Library of Congress presentation, it will be posted July 19th-ish.)
From Stephen's Lighthouse:
http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/archives/2008/07/michael_wesch_l.html
"Many of you have probably seen Kansas State University prof Michael Wesch's thought-provoking video, "A
Vision of Students Today". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o.
Recently Dr. Wesch spoke at the University of Manitoba where he explained the the basis of this video in a talk entitled, "Michael Wesch and the Future of Education." I found it fascinating! He describes how he so naturally incorporates emerging technologies into his courses from the smallest seminar type class to the largest lecture theatre filled class.
More importantly he not only talks about the technologies but how he encourages extraordinary participation and collaboration from his students by engaging them in meaningful learning activities.
Although the video is 66 minutes long...pour a coffee, iced tea or glass of wine and enjoy this dynamic presentation from a master teacher."
http://umanitoba.ca/ist/production/streaming/podcast_wesch.html
Dubbed "the explainer" by popular geek publication Wired because of his viral YouTube video that summarizes Web 2.0 in under five minutes, cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch brought his Web 2.0 wisdom to the University of Manitoba on June 17.
During his presentation, the Kansas State University professor breaks down his attempts to integrate Facebook, Netvibes, Diigo, Google Apps, Jott, Twitter, and other emerging technologies to create an education portal of the future.
"It's basically an ongoing experiment to create a portal for me and my students to work online," he explains. "We tried every social media application you can think of. Some worked, some didn't."
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I teach, too, but I am not a qualified teacher. I do incursions into high schools running interactive medieval history sessions. I don't teach information. I first foster a love of learning (and the specific subject), then I faciltiate the learning skills of the student. Do that and they teach themselves.
- He cares about what he does
- He got the students to care too
- He nudged them in a direction
How did he do it? He surprises the students by caring enough to work out a new delivery. I don't care how innovative your tools, if you convince students you actually care about them, they amazing things. Networks need interested people.
Don't laugh at this! Just do it
Start thinking something you really really want cause this is
astounding the person that sent this to me said their wish came true 10
mins after they read the mail so I thought what the heck
You have just been visited by DrSuess's Cat in the Hat. He will grant
you
one wish
Make your wish when the count down is over
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
MAKE A WISH
Send this to 10 videos within the hour you read this.
If you do, your wish will come true
It's my best guess anyway.
Bonus idea: setting up games and simulations with very different rules and metaphors, we can escape some problematic worldviews (the place of competition, economic growth as the sole metric and engine of prosperity. etc.) or at least gain insight into how powerful they are and begin to mitigate them. See game Starpower for an example.
If you do not copy and paste this onto 10 videos your mom will die in 4 hours
I had never see a video that can last an hour!