A Vision of Students Today

This video made the rounds on the Internet (and TeachOIT) about a year and a half ago, but when we showed it at the beginning of our two most recent “Emerging Technologies” workshops I don’t believe any of the attendees had seen it, so I’ve decided it is worth sharing again here:
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Cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch and 200 students at Kansas State University created a video about students in today’s college classrooms. It is an example of “digital storytelling” with an interesting mix of low tech (words on paper, chalkboard and walls) and high tech (time-lapse footage of a Google Doc being edited by the 200 students). It doesn’t offer any concrete solutions, but rather poses some though-provoking questions for anyone trying to reach 21st century students in a 19th century setting.

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