Did you know that our governments are establishing a massiv censorship which leads to hamper our ability in terms of expressing our ideas, thoughts and opinions to the people out there in web.
PLEASE support the world wide protest movement which is really peacfull ! In order to change we have to put our thoughts and energy together
Our species is learning an entirely new form of communication that is not only going to transform society, it already has transformed us on a fundamental level. Notice the transparency we share today versus just one decade ago, and how this kind of transparency is a good kind of transparency. One that serves the commons now, and is about to change the world. For 5,000 years, we've existed in a city state culture, and we're about to graduate to whatever is coming next:)
Why couldn't educators put together a great suggested reading list decades ago before there were cheap computers. So now more people produce more junk to wade thru.
Wikipedia is fantastic, don't get me wrong, but it isn't knowledge. Its information. There is a difference between the acquisition of knowledge and the availability of information.
RE: technology. Here's a way to stay in touch using a living syllabus. The Syllabus Geeks have a number of funny syllabus related videos on YouTube search for their channel at Intellidemia
RE: technology. Here's a way to stay in touch using a living syllabus. The Syllabus Geeks have a number of funny syllabus related videos on YouTube search for their channel at Intellidemia
For America to stay competitive in the 21st century as a global superpower, we need to a complete change of our education system! And we NEED it now! It's sad our government spends more on defense than education, education is only approximately 4% of our total budget (somewhere around there, just read it the other day.) The key to our future is our children obviously, and not investing it them is detrimental to our country, our world! Wish I could take his class...
We must protect the electronic system with a Faraday cage.. A faraday cage will protect electronics and electrical machines from sun spots, radiation and other things that can wipe out all electrical systems. Just some food for though.
I wonder how student affairs would fit into this video . . . Theorists keep saying that student's need to be engaged and develop holistically, yet even technologically is divided, though portals such as blackboard or even facebook are making attempts. If student affairs personnel are to continue to be employed, how do you see technology integrating ALL of university life?
i too am confused about the knowledge gatekeeper aspect of universities - when they refuse to (or are legally incapable) keep up with modern information technology.
example: IP laws allow students much more informational power and freedom than universities themselves are allowed, simply due to universities being large easily sued organisations (while students can clandestinely torrent whatever for their personal use).
Also how should a modern university gauge it's students' competence - tests?
@roidroid Breaking intellectual property (this is the IP you were referring to, right) laws is illegal no matter who is doing it. Just because a student can do it, and doesn't apparently get caught, doesn't mean that it is right.
I agree that higher education is not keeping up with modern information technology, but I think downloading copyrighted material without permission is not one of the first things we need to get them to start doing.
@roidroid Breaking intellectual property (this is the IP you were referring to, right) laws is illegal no matter who is doing it. Just because a student can do it, and doesn't apparently get caught, doesn't mean that it is right.
I agree that higher education is not keeping up with modern information technology, but I think downloading copyrighted material without permission is not one of the first things we need to get them to start doing.
@stevestoneky The ethical validity of IP laws is questionable. Most kids have no respect for IP, but they don't have lobby groups. If only they did.
Universities are centers of progress in many fields, but ARE held back by law. Whether this is justified or not - the reality is that it weakens the university's ability to be a valid universal information gatekeeper and educator, which is why it's worth mentioning in the context of this video "rethinking education".
Without education in universities, people are free to learn what ever they want and never develop strong skills in a specific study. Universities provide resources that help people understand what they are doing and with the internet is a labyrinth of information that is almost impossible to learn from, unless you have a guide and projects to lead you. Also, universities also bring a community through extracurricular activities, and majors can spread the variety of jobs available.
Love your videos. They are thought provoking and inspiring. You ask the question "who will organize all of this?" What I'm wondering is, who will be the gatekeeper? How do we validate knowledge when the internet has turned "knowledge" into "information"? Journal articles are peer-reviewed. Books have publishers. The internet has nothing. How do we provide our students with the tools to evaluate all this information?
Has no one noticed in viewing this interesting video, that not even one female "media expert" is interviewed, at all, in the commentary concerning the major cultural transformations enabled by socially networked media? Is this really the world Scott Bukatman declared to be a world "without women"?
Information and human knowledge is a commons, it belongs to everyone and cannot be owned, fenced in, kept secret, or exclusive. The defenders of copyright are fighting a losing battle.
Thank you for your work! I am looking forward to sharing this with people within my learning network. One request for the future... would like it even better if the audio clips were all credited at the end to enable folks to more easily follow these threads further if they were so inclined...
@shelleyq It looks like they were coming from - do a Google Search on "IT Conversations" (youtube not letting me insert links) and you can scroll through the video to get an idea who is being heard from. I agree, it would be nice to have a set of links (probably as a delicious site?)
The Information Revolution failed. It didn't make it any easier to put bread on the table or a roof over our heads. It didn't prevent a tiny elite from monopolizing economic and political power in almost every developed country. It hasn't made work, or socializing, or romance, or education, or any of these things you put in your videos better in any significant sense. All it did is create a powerful drug, information addiction, which keeps us glued to our screens instead of living real life.
I love your inspiring videos! But those 25.000.000 songs for instance, some of them have copyright, I wish you'd adress the questions and implications of such free access more clearly. It is trivial but: sometimes I can't watch an interesting youtube video simply because of that. On the other hand: what about those people, who have no backup profession to support their creative output, giving away their new and fought for thoughts for free?
Furthermore: sometimes Wikipedia can be pretty lame....
@popkocher This doesn't really answer your question, but the upside of the new technology is that an artist can now potentially find 1,000 fans that are willing to pay the artist $50 per year for their work, and the artist has a $50,000 per year income. Without having to support a record company or gallery or publishing house.
And, yes, Wikipedia can be lame. So when it is, change it.
Thanks, Mike, and thanks for the Cal props. Showing it to my class as homework, I think they'll like it more than the blathering reading they needed to do. - Michael A.
wish you replied to my email i sent to you about 2 years ago :(. Would have definitely changed my lifestyle and i would have easily gone through with changing my major to anthro/ethno :(
Yeah, blame other people for what are your successes/ failures in life. In a way, THIS is what university is about nowadays. I can see people my age not thinking about their future and completely depending on what the university gives them. Never taking anything for themselves, because it's so much EASIER to live like that, getting drunk every night and wasting every day on stumbleupon only to, in shock, realise at graduation university life could have been so much more.
You misunderstood my post. I was requesting information about the major, i already had sight of what i wanted. He's a professor of the major, so that information would have been sufficient. Also, don't bash universities, you obviously have no clue what you're talking about. Go ahead and live your life without the course of schooling, see how far you get. You'll end up flipping burgers for a living. There are plenty of professors that teach because they want to, i order to educate.
I misunderstood your post and you misunderstood mine. That makes us even, doesn't it? ;)
I very much so appreciate what my university offers me and I take in anything I can at any time. What I'm saying is that my colleagues are irresponsible and THIS is what university life is today, because it doesn't only depend on us, but the people around us, our colleagues, as well whether both the lecturers and the university give their best to offer us the best they can.
I have indeed met some amazing lecturers and I truly appreciate them, because they are a minority among professionals that teach to people that mostly don't want to learn, only to get the chance to carry out the research they're interested.
Many educators are aware that the current modes are obsolete. However, the new mode is still emerging, and it may be decades before we even KNOW what is a relevant way to pursue knowledge. For the time being, on the "Onboard" side of the digital divide, I say we should relax a bit while we wait and see. Perhaps a focus on old fashioned human potential could add some meaninful guidance in the classroom.
These videos always give me such a feeling of hope for the future, but then I go out into the internets again and try to engage people, and I see quantity is not enough when there's so little quality.
Good to see someone thinking so deep and sharing it so easily with the world.
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Did you know that our governments are establishing a massiv censorship which leads to hamper our ability in terms of expressing our ideas, thoughts and opinions to the people out there in web.
PLEASE support the world wide protest movement which is really peacfull ! In order to change we have to put our thoughts and energy together
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Nutzernichtaus 1 month ago
Our species is learning an entirely new form of communication that is not only going to transform society, it already has transformed us on a fundamental level. Notice the transparency we share today versus just one decade ago, and how this kind of transparency is a good kind of transparency. One that serves the commons now, and is about to change the world. For 5,000 years, we've existed in a city state culture, and we're about to graduate to whatever is coming next:)
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leifthor415 2 months ago
Very inspiring video. Just the type of word that we try to put out here at StudySync! Thanks, mwesch!
studysync 5 months ago
Harnessing collective BS!
Why couldn't educators put together a great suggested reading list decades ago before there were cheap computers. So now more people produce more junk to wade thru.
I never heard of this in high school:
The Tyranny of Words (1938) by Stuart Chase
watch=M9H1StY1nU8
AllDaySCIfi 5 months ago
very inspiring video
jowsmith100 5 months ago
Wikipedia is fantastic, don't get me wrong, but it isn't knowledge. Its information. There is a difference between the acquisition of knowledge and the availability of information.
gilbertgrandeur 8 months ago
RE: technology. Here's a way to stay in touch using a living syllabus. The Syllabus Geeks have a number of funny syllabus related videos on YouTube search for their channel at Intellidemia
JennConnally 9 months ago
RE: technology. Here's a way to stay in touch using a living syllabus. The Syllabus Geeks have a number of funny syllabus related videos on YouTube search for their channel at Intellidemia
JennConnally 9 months ago
Exponential growth is the true enabler of new education #TranscendentMan
RalfLippold 10 months ago
My #dream No. 4 (it was): creating a collective intelligence think tank at the place I love most (Dresden)
RalfLippold 10 months ago
Yes it is true... We do not need all these Universities. Think of the Tax dollars Americans can save if they went online only..
manny298 10 months ago
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surfthetechwave 10 months ago
It's so crazy how the internet is changing the world. I have a cool video on cloud computing. check it out please
surfthetechwave 10 months ago
For America to stay competitive in the 21st century as a global superpower, we need to a complete change of our education system! And we NEED it now! It's sad our government spends more on defense than education, education is only approximately 4% of our total budget (somewhere around there, just read it the other day.) The key to our future is our children obviously, and not investing it them is detrimental to our country, our world! Wish I could take his class...
joeyg728 10 months ago
dont forget to give feedback on this Student Socal Responsibility model...:)
/watch?v=surfeEQ2RX8
arsalanxaidi 11 months ago
We must protect the electronic system with a Faraday cage.. A faraday cage will protect electronics and electrical machines from sun spots, radiation and other things that can wipe out all electrical systems. Just some food for though.
manny298 1 year ago
I wonder how student affairs would fit into this video . . . Theorists keep saying that student's need to be engaged and develop holistically, yet even technologically is divided, though portals such as blackboard or even facebook are making attempts. If student affairs personnel are to continue to be employed, how do you see technology integrating ALL of university life?
samason6 1 year ago
Just 5 degrees.
amoeba97 1 year ago
i too am confused about the knowledge gatekeeper aspect of universities - when they refuse to (or are legally incapable) keep up with modern information technology.
example: IP laws allow students much more informational power and freedom than universities themselves are allowed, simply due to universities being large easily sued organisations (while students can clandestinely torrent whatever for their personal use).
Also how should a modern university gauge it's students' competence - tests?
roidroid 1 year ago
@roidroid Breaking intellectual property (this is the IP you were referring to, right) laws is illegal no matter who is doing it. Just because a student can do it, and doesn't apparently get caught, doesn't mean that it is right.
I agree that higher education is not keeping up with modern information technology, but I think downloading copyrighted material without permission is not one of the first things we need to get them to start doing.
Let's go to open source textbooks, etc.
stevestoneky 1 year ago
@roidroid Breaking intellectual property (this is the IP you were referring to, right) laws is illegal no matter who is doing it. Just because a student can do it, and doesn't apparently get caught, doesn't mean that it is right.
I agree that higher education is not keeping up with modern information technology, but I think downloading copyrighted material without permission is not one of the first things we need to get them to start doing.
Let's go to open source textbooks, etc.
stevestoneky 1 year ago
@stevestoneky The ethical validity of IP laws is questionable. Most kids have no respect for IP, but they don't have lobby groups. If only they did.
Universities are centers of progress in many fields, but ARE held back by law. Whether this is justified or not - the reality is that it weakens the university's ability to be a valid universal information gatekeeper and educator, which is why it's worth mentioning in the context of this video "rethinking education".
roidroid 1 year ago
Without education in universities, people are free to learn what ever they want and never develop strong skills in a specific study. Universities provide resources that help people understand what they are doing and with the internet is a labyrinth of information that is almost impossible to learn from, unless you have a guide and projects to lead you. Also, universities also bring a community through extracurricular activities, and majors can spread the variety of jobs available.
Electra901 1 year ago
Love your videos. They are thought provoking and inspiring. You ask the question "who will organize all of this?" What I'm wondering is, who will be the gatekeeper? How do we validate knowledge when the internet has turned "knowledge" into "information"? Journal articles are peer-reviewed. Books have publishers. The internet has nothing. How do we provide our students with the tools to evaluate all this information?
agirquaz 1 year ago
@contravink
You're gonna eat your words -- "The Information Revolution failed. It didn't make it any easier to put bread on the table or a roof over our heads."
jacvize 1 year ago
Has no one noticed in viewing this interesting video, that not even one female "media expert" is interviewed, at all, in the commentary concerning the major cultural transformations enabled by socially networked media? Is this really the world Scott Bukatman declared to be a world "without women"?
ubcccfi 1 year ago
what tower is that?
lonesouI 1 year ago
Information and human knowledge is a commons, it belongs to everyone and cannot be owned, fenced in, kept secret, or exclusive. The defenders of copyright are fighting a losing battle.
blackiron60 1 year ago
Thank you for your work! I am looking forward to sharing this with people within my learning network. One request for the future... would like it even better if the audio clips were all credited at the end to enable folks to more easily follow these threads further if they were so inclined...
shelleyq 1 year ago
@shelleyq It looks like they were coming from - do a Google Search on "IT Conversations" (youtube not letting me insert links) and you can scroll through the video to get an idea who is being heard from. I agree, it would be nice to have a set of links (probably as a delicious site?)
stevestoneky 1 year ago
The Information Revolution failed. It didn't make it any easier to put bread on the table or a roof over our heads. It didn't prevent a tiny elite from monopolizing economic and political power in almost every developed country. It hasn't made work, or socializing, or romance, or education, or any of these things you put in your videos better in any significant sense. All it did is create a powerful drug, information addiction, which keeps us glued to our screens instead of living real life.
conradvink 1 year ago 2
More accents to the sampled voices :)
leighblackall 1 year ago
If you want to revolutionize higher education, forget about web 2.0. Start with eliminating funding sources that are based on coercion and theft.
hkweasel 1 year ago 2
Another great conversation starter and homage to some great thinkers surrounding the social web. Keep pushing the envelope, Michael!
mos42 1 year ago
I love your inspiring videos! But those 25.000.000 songs for instance, some of them have copyright, I wish you'd adress the questions and implications of such free access more clearly. It is trivial but: sometimes I can't watch an interesting youtube video simply because of that. On the other hand: what about those people, who have no backup profession to support their creative output, giving away their new and fought for thoughts for free?
Furthermore: sometimes Wikipedia can be pretty lame....
popkocher 1 year ago
@popkocher Good point. I should have thrown in something from Larry Lessig on this matter.
mwesch 1 year ago
@popkocher This doesn't really answer your question, but the upside of the new technology is that an artist can now potentially find 1,000 fans that are willing to pay the artist $50 per year for their work, and the artist has a $50,000 per year income. Without having to support a record company or gallery or publishing house.
And, yes, Wikipedia can be lame. So when it is, change it.
stevestoneky 1 year ago
I love each of your videos! Thanks for another!
ihshiodo 1 year ago
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Thanks, Mike, and thanks for the Cal props. Showing it to my class as homework, I think they'll like it more than the blathering reading they needed to do. - Michael A.
teamOKAPI 1 year ago
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teamOKAPI 1 year ago
GREAT video! One suggestion, Please add captions when you create your videos. There are many online resources that allow this to be done.
shelleyardis 1 year ago
These are all reasons to support wikileaks. Information will be free, in spite of governments.
livelifealwaystoo 1 year ago
A great mash follow up, 4-years on, to a vision of students today.
nnoakes 1 year ago
this is very inspiring thank you for posting this
VideoFan0112 1 year ago
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tlaquin 1 year ago
wish you replied to my email i sent to you about 2 years ago :(. Would have definitely changed my lifestyle and i would have easily gone through with changing my major to anthro/ethno :(
Nonetheless, nice vid wesch. Makes perfect sense.
twizted786 1 year ago
@twizted786
Yeah, blame other people for what are your successes/ failures in life. In a way, THIS is what university is about nowadays. I can see people my age not thinking about their future and completely depending on what the university gives them. Never taking anything for themselves, because it's so much EASIER to live like that, getting drunk every night and wasting every day on stumbleupon only to, in shock, realise at graduation university life could have been so much more.
ShApEsHiFt3r 1 year ago
@ShApEsHiFt3r
You misunderstood my post. I was requesting information about the major, i already had sight of what i wanted. He's a professor of the major, so that information would have been sufficient. Also, don't bash universities, you obviously have no clue what you're talking about. Go ahead and live your life without the course of schooling, see how far you get. You'll end up flipping burgers for a living. There are plenty of professors that teach because they want to, i order to educate.
twizted786 1 year ago
@twizted786
I misunderstood your post and you misunderstood mine. That makes us even, doesn't it? ;)
I very much so appreciate what my university offers me and I take in anything I can at any time. What I'm saying is that my colleagues are irresponsible and THIS is what university life is today, because it doesn't only depend on us, but the people around us, our colleagues, as well whether both the lecturers and the university give their best to offer us the best they can.
ShApEsHiFt3r 1 year ago
@twizted786
I have indeed met some amazing lecturers and I truly appreciate them, because they are a minority among professionals that teach to people that mostly don't want to learn, only to get the chance to carry out the research they're interested.
ShApEsHiFt3r 1 year ago
Many educators are aware that the current modes are obsolete. However, the new mode is still emerging, and it may be decades before we even KNOW what is a relevant way to pursue knowledge. For the time being, on the "Onboard" side of the digital divide, I say we should relax a bit while we wait and see. Perhaps a focus on old fashioned human potential could add some meaninful guidance in the classroom.
SunAwake 1 year ago
Very interesting, but we need to be able to apply our knowledge. There are people who know a lot of facts but no sense....
jmomm 1 year ago
These videos always give me such a feeling of hope for the future, but then I go out into the internets again and try to engage people, and I see quantity is not enough when there's so little quality.
CRokkan 1 year ago