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A Portal to Media Literacy
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.sirs... "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... 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/produc... 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."
Channel: Education
Author: mwesch
Length: 06:12
Rating: 4.86
Views: 47675
Tags: college culture literacy media pedagogy significance
Video Comments
filipemtx (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)Portal! The cake is a lie!!
breejorra08 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
This is so stupid... But i love my mom deeply... And i don't want to take any chances. Sorry. If you do not copy and paste this onto 10 videos your mom will die in 4 hours
AndroidBoy420 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I homeschool and while I am far from a man of letters, I can vouch for this fact: Engagement is the key. The easiest path to engagement is to present the new and unknown in a format that encourages discovery. If you can remember your own moments of discovery, and especially the ignorance that preceeded them, then you can teach anyone anything. Unless they watch Fox News. Slam!
muchjadelove (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
My 12 year old daughter just called Prof. Wesch on the fact he was teaching in the "Mass/Follow" model! I question whether the purpose of education is to inform and equip the student to live in the world, or indoctrinate them to a point of helplessness needed to force participation in the 'endless' cycle of production and consumption that characterizes industrialized civilization. So there!
xAndyyxx (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Tom, we will!!!!!!!!
tomajda (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I wish to be able to bring that ideas to the Czech Republic...
vicenteaguilara (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Just great and easy to understand
ccboca (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
educational literature has been saying this stuff for years, and years, I am referring to the first 8 min. Please make sure you take a look at that literature dr. wesch!
ImOnTheTube (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I think the time for schooling is long enough. What the schools essentially do is say "Here is the information; deal with it". What schools fail to do is teach students important life lessons that would significantly change the direction of their thinking process that would affect their perception of the world. What schools don't do is teach students to learn how to to learn. Life is a learning process and people don't know how to use that to their advantage. Excellent syllogism @ 4:30.
bwinkler8787 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I like to say that the whole school system isn't long enough. The time given to try to learn the massive amount of information just isn't long enough, not to mention that the way in which is done isn't that successful. The best way to learn is to teach, teaching forces you to remeber the information better, and everytime you do it you begin to add things in trying to make it more interesting. This is how school should be.