Edumacation
Found this video on Jonnie Moore’s always thought provoking blog. It’s a collaboration of 200 students in an anthropology class that looks at the defining characteristics of students today.
It certainly seemed bleak in many ways, and illustrated how the modern school system of lecture halls and chalkboards were antiquated, but what surprised me is how much the web was mentioned but mainly in the context of facebook. Isn’t there a wealth of information out there on the web, what of wikipedia, or the mountains of blogs out there written by smart, thoughtful people, if they were anthropology students weren’t they reading Grant McCracken? I’m just saying, how many of them were blogging, podcasting, putting videos on youtube? Well actually they are all blogging at http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=119″>mediatedcultures.net, and of course they put this video up on youtube which has been viewed almost 1.5 million times, and they used a wiki like service to edit the document to put the script together for the project, so thankfully it did go beyond facebook 
Anyway, the video did immediately reminded me of Sir Ken Robinson’s amazing talk he gave at TED in 2006 asking the question “do schools kill creativity?”.
3 Comments, Comment or Ping
Jamey
The Sir Ken Robinson talk at TED is one of my favorite pieces on education. I’m also a big fan of Mike Wesch content. It would be interesting to sit down and chat with Mr. Wesch regarding his thoughts on education and future of learning. As a parent, I’m finding very interested in maintaining a creative spirit in my children and balancing that with the standardization of the education system.
Thanks for the post.
Jan 27th, 2008
liquid06
I have one word for you. Yes. I agree, tenfold. Thanks for this post.
Jan 27th, 2008
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