“Students universally tell us they prefer dealing with questions rather than answers, sharing their opinions, participating in group projects, working with real-world issues and people, and having teachers who talk to them as equals rather than as inferiors. Hopefully, this is useful information for teachers and other educators -- and it is important that educators realize just how universal these opinions are.”
"If you (teachers) don't talk to us (students), you have no idea what we're thinking." (student-Hawaii)
This article originally published on 9/1/2001.
“In a letter to his teachers at the end of the year, program grad Yogesh offered an explanation for such dedication: ‘You helped me a lot in technology but also improved my leadership skills.’ And he learned the power and joy that comes with collaborating to improve lessons created by veteran and prospective teachers.”
This article was also published in the October 2005 issue of Edutopia magazine.
"The key to teaching is keeping kids involved," says Ryan Ritz, the computer science teacher who first brought the DyKnow system to the Park Tudor School. "They like everything being electronic -- it's speaking their language." Ritz cites near-instant feedback during class as the most important feature of the system, allowing him to know which points the students have observed and which ones need to be revisited. "You know immediately where they stand," he says. "This is a better way to learn."
This article was also published in the October 2005 issue of Edutopia magazine.
“Mizuko Ito was one of several researchers to receive a $3.3 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation to study children's use of digital media and its implications for education here in the United States. We spoke to Ito about her work and its implications for American classrooms.”
5. A Vision of Students Today by Michael Wesch - 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. (time4:45 - ratings10,159 - stars4.5 - views3,178,685)
Digital Ethnography: explorations of mediated culture
Project Coordinator - Dr. Michael Wesch
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography
a. Michael Wesch and the Digital Ethnography Working Group
“Presentation at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. This was tons of fun to present. I decided to forgo the PowerPoint and instead worked with students to prepare over 40 minutes of video for the 55 minute presentation.” (Bet you can’t watch just the first 3 minutes.)
6.a. UPDATED link: The Machine is Us/ing Us.
by Michael Wesch
First Released on January 31st 2007
(MUST see, you probably already have.)
On January 31st I released the 2nd draft of The Machine is Us/ing Us hoping to receive feedback from my colleagues. (The first draft was only seen by my Digital Ethnography class 2 days before the 2nd draft was released on YouTube.) I sent it to 10 people. Four days later it was the most blogged about video in the blogosphere and the wild ride had begun. It has been fun and amazing for the most part – sometimes overwhelming – but always exciting. It is hard to believe that a little video I created in my basement in St. George Kansas could be seen by over 1.7 million people, be translated into (at least) 5 languages, and be shown to large audiences at major conferences on 6 continents within just one month of its creation. In some ways, the journey of the video speaks volumes that the content of the video could only hint at. I know I could not have done this with the technology available 3 years ago – certainly not 13 years ago – so the world really is different and I’m just happy to be part of the mass of people trying to rethink how we can best live in this quickly changing environment.
This new version is not a major revision. It is just cleaned up a bit – fixed a few typos and cleaned up some transitions. I’m reserving some of the new ideas that have come to me in the past month for future video projects. I considered releasing this as an “eternal beta” in true Web 2.0 style, but decided to let it stand as is and start working on future projects. Many of my future videos will address the last 30 seconds of this video (the “rethink …” part).
This work 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. I received many more positive comments than negative about the song choice (great work Deus!), but if you are one of those who does not like the song just download the video and change the audio track to your liking.
7. Our class: on how we run our class
Apr 24th, 2009 by Prof Wesch
About Us - a Kansas State University working group led by Dr. Michael Wesch dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digital ethnography. (text for students and teachers. video for mature audience.)
8. A Vision of K-12 Students Today by B. Nesbitt
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. (time4:09 – ratings264 – stars4 – views344,395)
9. Pay Attention by Darren Draper
**TeacherTube's Top 100 Most Viewed Video***
Since most of today's students can appropriately be labeled as "Digital Learners", why do so many teachers refuse to enter the digital age with their teaching practices? This presentation was created in an effort to motivate teachers to more effectively use technology in their teaching.
(time7:41 - ratings98 - stars4.5 - views69,868)
On Wednesday, April 29, 2009 the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association (OPSBA) released a Discussion Paper entitled: What If? Technology in the 21st Century Classroom. “As school trustees we want to engage the province in a meaningful focused discussion about classrooms of the 21st century. We want to be part of developing a provincial vision and strategies that will make all our classrooms connected and relevant.” Ontario Public School Boards’ Association News Release
11. Welcome to the Digital Generation by Edutopia (4.5 minute video)
"Sync up with the new generation of connected learners. The Digital Generation Project presents video portraits of the lives of young students from around the country who are using digital media to learn, communicate, and socialize in new and exciting ways."
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