A big thank you to David Warlick, via my RSS feed of his 2 Cents Worth blog for sharing with his readers a video created by Dr. Michael Wesch, in collaboration with 200 of his students at Kansas State University, entitled "A Vision of Students Today."
This 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.
With over 1,000,000 views on YouTube, the project is getting strong reaction. In reaction to the overwhelming response to video, Dr. Wesch explains his thinking behind the work:
Students are learning to read, navigate, and create within a digital information environment that we scarcely address in the classroom. The great myth is that these “digital natives” know more about this new information environment than we do. But here’s the reality: they may be experts in entertaining themselves online, but they know almost nothing about educating themselves online. They may be learning about this digital information environment despite us, but they are not reaching the levels of understanding that are necessary as this digital information environment becomes increasingly pervasive in all of our lives. All of the classic skills we learned in relation to a print-based information universe are important, and must now be augmented by a critical understanding of the workings of digital information…
To read the entire post and or to get a full transcript of the video, check out his blog Digital Ethnography.
Regardless of your reaction, it is an excellent watch and a sure conversation ignighter.
Looking forward to hearing your reactions on your blog or mine~!
