Konza Prairie, Manhattan,, KS
“So a few weeks ago, I got the chance to speak at IgnitePhilly. You get five minutes -- you prepare twenty slides, and you get fifteen seconds a slide. It's a really, really fun, fast-paced way to try to communicate an idea, and the evening was a ton of fun. It was amazing for me to get to talk about school reform and 21st Century schools in an audience of so many new media / social media / creative class folks in Philadelphia. If you get the chance to go to an IgnitePhilly event, do so. It's a blast.
And it was really fun and tough to try to boil down what I think and believe about school reform to a five minute speech to non-educators. And it's a good thing I talk fast. Enjoy.”
A Vision of Students Today
A 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. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.
Music by Try^d: http://tryad.org/listen.html
Download higher quality wmv:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ajm0lzxh223
mov version:
http://www.mediafire.com/?3xbhmdmsfmd
More information:
http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?...
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
The Machine is Using Us
Final version now available!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes.
This is the 2nd draft, and I plan on doing one more final draft. Please leave comments on what could be changed or improved, or what needs to be excluded or included. Subscribe if you want to be notified when the revision is released.
A higher quality version is available for download here: http://www.mediafire.com/?6duzg3zioyd The song is "There's Nothing Impossible" by Deus, available for free at http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/103/
Deus offers music under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license, yet one more example of the interlinking of people sharing and collaborating this video is attempting to illustrate.
CC: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
Michael Wesch
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Kansas State University
Information R/evolution
This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively.
High Quality WMV download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?atyamxuyn2p
Quicktime:
http://www.mediafire.com/?6hqygitsy0v
If you are interested in this topic, check out Clay Shirky's work, especially: http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontolo...
Also check out David Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous:
http://www.everythingismiscellaneous....
This video is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. So you are welcome to download it, share it, even change it, just as long as you give me some credit and you don't sell it or use it to sell anything.
Do schools today kill creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson, TEDTalks
A must-see for every parent and teacher. Education guru Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. Sir Ken Robinson is author of "Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative," and a leading expert on innovation in education and business. (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)
A Vision of K-12 Students Today
This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Equally important, it serves to motivate district level leaders to provide teachers with the tools and training to do so.
Pay Attention
