If you haven’t seen them yet, here are three must-see videos from Dr. Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University:
Other videos are available at the Moving Forward videos wiki page (feel free to add some more!).
I just clicked on your blog because I was going to send you a link to the “Visions of Students Today” since I am little blogger and you are a big blogger I thought it would be more effective if you got the message out ; ) Glad to see you posted them. There is a link in the YouTube description to a high quality download. I highly recommend it. There is a big difference. There is also a high quality download for the “Machine is Us.”
Little blogger here too, glad to see the videos posted. I loved them. I also added a video to your wiki.
http://www.fi.ncsu.edu/initiatives/havingoursay/video.html
It was done at the Friday Institute at NC State University. It is middle schoolers giving their perspectives on school, technologies, and academic engagement.
Paul and Aaron,
1. There are no “little” bloggers, only undiscovered bloggers. =)
2. Thanks for the links, the comments, and the addition to Moving Forward!
Do you have a non-Youtube version of the above videos? Youtube is blocked at school so it makes it difficult to show the students.
I’ve seen the first one–and have even showed it to our staff–but I have never seen the second or third one. Thanks for showing those to us. Good stuff.
Cool
I’d seen the firs tone but not the second or third.
I’ve added them to a wiki I am developing for drafting ICT policy for my school.
http://russels-ict-wiki.wikispaces.com/The+world+has+changed
I, too, would love high-res versions of these latest ones. I’ve shown the YouTube versions a few times, but they’re tough to read.
Checked Wesch’s Digital Ethnography blog and couldn’t find anything…
I showed the video A Vision of Students to all of my kids today and was amazed at their response. To summarize the opinions of 100 kids in one sentence — “The video was made to show kids how they waste their time doing useless things and should do the work they are given because college costs a lot of money and doing well in college will lead to a more successful future.” It took a while for them to believe that it was not their fault for feeling bored and uninterested in school(every class except mine of course : )
digital information – a new Mike Wesch video!
Our information structure has changed the way we work, the way think and the way we live. The video below may be a bit shaky, but the once again Mike Wesch of Web 2.0 – The Web is Us/ing Us