Future of Education (Michael Wesch)

http://umanitoba.ca/ist/production/streaming/podcast_wesch.html

Barry Dahl writes that Wesch’s presentation is “all about media literacy and how he engages his students at Kansas State University. This 66 minute video is well worth the time in order to get a glimpse of how he tries to make students knowledge-able (able to create and critique knowledge) rather than knowledgeable (mind dump education). A few highlights: (8:00) The Crisis of Significance (making education significant in the lives of students), (9:00) eleven minutes on "if these classroom walls could talk, what would they say" - and how does the WWW blow these assumptions away, (45:45) what he does in the classroom to get students to go "beyond the grade," (57:00) a five-minute video in a video showing how the students go through 600 years of world history in one 75-minute class period using Netvibes, wikis, Twitter, Jott, etc. - but where the technology is secondary to the F2F collaboration.”