A Portal to Media Literacy

[staranjela]

really informative and interesting

[willbirful]

some sweet info here

[makeiteasyable]

interesting

[megalissa21]

Where does one find all these fantastic and fascinating websites?!? I haven't heard of over half of the ones he mentioned and it is now 2011!

[HappyJackass027]

I happen to find Dr. Wesch while trolling the web looking for good life skills curriculum material for my students who are secondary level (8th,9th,10th grade) special ed kids. Engagement is what it is all about and the addition of my smardboard has been the one real significant tool that has had the most powerful, positive impact improving both my teaching and allowing my students to access emerging social media.I would love to be in Dr. Wesch's class!

[SamuelitoRubio]

Interestingly, cheerios are somewhat healthier than fruit loops, and in comparison, the "peasant" populations of Latin America (this is where my personal experience lies) seem far healthier/physically more capable than Americans (personal experience again) of the same general social/economic setting.

[aneros988]

I love what you're doing here Dr. Wesch. Don't take this wrong, I mean it absolutely as a compliment.. but you are like our generation's Timothy Leary!

Peace! Keep doing what you're doing!

[mattpowersmusic]

What dinosaurs disliked this?

[RalfLippold]

Rethink & -do education, how true is that - Thanks @mwesch for this awesome talk @jeanpol

[grvernon5]

This video is great!

What is the difference in going into a maths exam with a calculator and a science exam with an iphone?!

[mattpowersmusic]

@grvernon5 Google is the diff....

[bobh5]

this is fucking awsome

[bobh5]

ha this guy a dumb ass idiit JOKES

[olakunde]

This guy gets it...

[D2Baber]

His way of teaching students seems better than the way teachers are teaching us today

[silversobe]

We need to create a system where the better off each person is, the better off the rest of humanity will be. A system where education, well being, and accessibility is supported. Our current system supports ignorance, insufficiency, and scarcity since the goalless pursuit of profit rules over all.

[autrycheryl]

w2autry - Michael Wesch is leading educator in media literacy. He stated that we should focus on the quality of learning rather than the quality of teaching. Teachers should pass on information and inspiring questions that will lead to more innovative questions from students.

[trex1950529]

It would be nice if there was a transcript for this presentation

[BurgM]

Media Literacy vol 1

[rileymbarb]

how do you do a video 1 hour long

[gangsta10johncena]

Fuckin Hell blood!! This vid is frikin more than 1Hour!!! well i am not waystin ma tym watchin dizz SHIT!!! and ppl say u can upload up to 10 or 15 minzz! boy i am finkin ??~HOW~?? did he upload dIZ !!!LOOOONNNGG!!! vIDEo!

[blackchaos23]

Maybe it would help getting a reply if people understood what you're trying to say. =\

[Famyli2]

new nadie te lo va a ver 1hora y ademas en todo el video no ay ningun portal o_O

[tiesthijsthejs]

I thought it might have been more helpful and relevant, to research education as a system of powerrelations, whereby a perception of the student is integrated in the architecture, and then taking the student's perception as a basis, not just taking into account narrative and symbolic perception, but also their sensuous perception; learning and knowledge transmission in education is staged through a hegemony of values on senses: white walls, writings, etc.

[blackchaos23]

........

[WillsWords]

very well presented... but... it seems to show that a lecture is still appropriate in some cases? I thought it was kind of ironic that it ended right when the audience was going to ask questions.

[blackchaos23]

The person who made it obviously wasn't into his lecture. =\

[EvilMrPrime]

Michael Wesch rock´s! Greetings from Hamburg Germany..

[bcornell61]

This is a video every educator pre k-grad school should review. Then they can move forward to doing a better job helping our students to learn! WOW!

[Itmac666]

1 hour :O !!!!???

[rucorvette]

it was well worth it. i have to do a paper by tomorrow and just can't pause this video and do my paper. it really questions the education system in America. matter of fact, the entire world is like this, and i hope America will be the first to change

[blackchaos23]

True

[celinamac100]

Great teacher...share this link with your friends..if they don't have time just ask them to enounce it.

Just discovered his videos in youtube today and they are great!!!!

[valimorg]

I'd say it depends on the part of the country your in. The cost of living varies in every region of the country.

[MATTx602]

This is a very inspirational guy. His "the machine is using us " video is awsome

[Musicforplay]

Nice Nice -> 1:06 ^.^

[Brokie14]

1:06:11 o.O

[nayab708]

this is dump

[pearsoncrz]

To learn is not to acquire information (data),but figuring out how to collect, evaluate, and analyze information. It is also figuring out how to share our process and conclusions with others.

In today's modern digital age, with information blasting at us from all directions, these skills will become ever more important.

Facts are facts. Reliabiilty, conclusions to be drawn and communicability are more important than form.

[robertgoldasich]

Thank you for posting this - Great stuff!!!

[DeeJayBounce]

Sad.

[muchjadelove]

My 12 year old daughter just called Prof. Wesch on the fact he was teaching in the "Mass/Follow" model!

I question whether the purpose of education is to inform and equip the student to live in the world, or indoctrinate them to a point of helplessness needed to force participation in the 'endless' cycle of production and consumption that characterizes industrialized civilization. So there!

[tomajda]

I wish to be able to bring that ideas to the Czech Republic...

[xAndyyxx]

Tom, we will!!!!!!!!

[vicenteaguilara]

Just great and easy to understand

[ccboca]

educational literature has been saying this stuff for years, and years, I am referring to the first 8 min. Please make sure you take a look at that literature dr. wesch!

[ImOnTheTube]

I think the time for schooling is long enough. What the schools essentially do is say "Here is the information; deal with it". What schools fail to do is teach students important life lessons that would significantly change the direction of their thinking process that would affect their perception of the world. What schools don't do is teach students to learn how to to learn. Life is a learning process and people don't know how to use that to their advantage. Excellent syllogism @ 4:30.

[bwinkler8787]

I like to say that the whole school system isn't long enough. The time given to try to learn the massive amount of information just isn't long enough, not to mention that the way in which is done isn't that successful. The best way to learn is to teach, teaching forces you to remeber the information better, and everytime you do it you begin to add things in trying to make it more interesting. This is how school should be.

[GuzmanTierno]

Superb.

[clc24601]

Corporate Instructional Designers create an environment that you describe. We design for adult learners who have life experience and need to share and do more hands on. How do we build a classroom environment that facilitates that? Interesting that instructors/designers see digital technology as a tool to communicate in a learning environment; we use it for every other aspect of our lives. Do you have any data showing information retained is more relevant or more meaningful for students?

[AndroidBoy420]

I homeschool and while I am far from a man of letters, I can vouch for this fact: Engagement is the key.

The easiest path to engagement is to present the new and unknown in a format that encourages discovery. If you can remember your own moments of discovery, and especially the ignorance that preceeded them, then you can teach anyone anything. Unless they watch Fox News.

Slam!

[mileyawesome4ever]

1 hour OMG!

I had never see a video that can last an hour!

[LuckySantiago]

Hey..well, what can a massive amount of people do to change education so it becomes passionate, engaging, and real?So, we all follow and support some groups/non-profits, what have you, that fight for a goal for change and a better way of doing something.How do we petition?Who do we go to, to make this change on a wide scale?For those that care and have a smaller amount of time there needs to be someway to support financially a cause for better education, or some way to symbolically do this.

[Aawaice]

mojomayes, how can you pass this on? this is the forth video from wesch that you spammed with this message.just stop, it's just not funny. it's sad

[midpacnate]

The simulation described at the end is an amazing example of how harnessing creativity and interaction really drives students to engage the issues so much more deeply In short, for a intro cultural anthro class, students create an entire mock world set in 1450 (involving lots of research because, while fictional, the ethnographies have to be realistic) and then discuss how to make it into a simulation/game (requiring research in political sscience, economics, systems theory, etc) and ...

[midpacnate]

then run simulation through year 2050. The simulation has parallels to actual events. The world ends badly, students reflect- "did we miss any solutions?" etc.

Bonus idea: setting up games and simulations with very different rules and metaphors, we can escape some problematic worldviews (the place of competition, economic growth as the sole metric and engine of prosperity. etc.) or at least gain insight into how powerful they are and begin to mitigate them. See game Starpower for an example.

[clubsandwedge]

Fantastic video.

[kidel3]

how can you make a hour movie? i can only 8 minutes

[yitih]

Compression. You probably have a high resolution on your videos which make them take up more space and therefore either your software can't handle more than 8min of that res or you don't have the hard-disc space for it ;)

It's my best guess anyway.

[hughlilly]

he probably has an account with special privileges, one of which will be the ability to make longer videos...

[madsgorm]

Are the slide for the presentation available for download?

[shadling21]

Wow. This took place at my school, and I never heard about it. It's unfortunate for me, since I'm considering going into digital media...

[brent0004304]

This is thought provoking. However, Wesch makes many jumps to make conclusions about media literacy. I feel that isn't at the core of his success. What is?

- He cares about what he does

- He got the students to care too

- He nudged them in a direction

How did he do it? He surprises the students by caring enough to work out a new delivery. I don't care how innovative your tools, if you convince students you actually care about them, they amazing things. Networks need interested people.

[midpacnate]

Good point. Sometimes it isn't the method, but the excitement the method generates in the teacher herself that carries the day.

[GwynforLwyd]

My mother, a lifelong teacher, defined a lecture as being where information was passed from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through the minds of either.

I teach, too, but I am not a qualified teacher. I do incursions into high schools running interactive medieval history sessions. I don't teach information. I first foster a love of learning (and the specific subject), then I faciltiate the learning skills of the student. Do that and they teach themselves.

[midpacnate]

Nicely put. And someow very hard when I am trying to ram all my required content into my studetns...

[happilynomadic]

This is the most powerful kick to distance learning providers I have seen in a good 25 years. A superb inspiration to up our game to not outdo the mundane classroom experience (that's easy) but to meet the best blended-classroom experience. Would be interested to know how the assessment scheme works.

[ArabianDesertMonkey]

What a compelling talk, and how incredible to be able to have access to it! I've also just watched the Library of Congress Anthropology of YouTube talk! WOW. I do some work with youth empowerment, storytelling and multimedia literacy, and these talks are enriching my approach and fine tuning my thinking. I am grateful to the work you and these incredible students are doing. What a wonderful, brave new world this is!

[tommyjohnson142]

holy shit i did'nt know you could make a video an hour long..wow..

[gingcalgal]

This was fantastic and it makes you to think in a different way. The potential not only will apply to education, but there has to be a way it can be applied in the workplace. It just gets you thinking.

[priscilamar02]

Wonderful and insightful message and sense of direction. As a dual citizen of Brasil and USA i have subscribed to you and would like to know more on how i can bring this new model into the learning system of Brazil - beyond the few privileged ones. Fascinating!

[arcturian627]

Oh my God, it's more than an hour??!!

Someone tell me if it's worth it. Please.

[yaeromark]

yes.

[mdabney32]

YES! Suggestion: Watch the first five, and you'll not want to stop. Wesch is a charismatic student-centered teacher, and here he is teaching academics.

[ArabianDesertMonkey]

YES. Watch it! :)

[ongelvin]

is there a place where i can download this full video? or should i find a downloader service?

[mwesch]

Try the new RealPlayer. It will put a download link right above the video. You can convert it with SUPER.

[ongelvin]

Eh, thanks, but I found a site to do it for me. :P

[barbariandoom]

First ever hour long youtube video that I watched completely.

[zackwolk]

Wesch = Visionary

[ausEe]

This is awesome, as an undergrad student of educaiton i found this pushed alot of buttens for me. Good work.

[dippyhude]

Hey Professor, 

I think its great that you put a lecture online! I hope you keep doing this in the future, so that I can keep tabs on what you're doing now that I won't be in classes. thanks,

Adam M.

[lordtalon69]

I loved the video your doing some amazing things with the integration of technology and student participation to encourage the maximum ammount of learning.

I'm glad i subscribed you i watched the entire video, great stuff.

[sillykiddo14]

woow, i didnt know that youtube lets people upload videos that is more than an hour long xD

this guy gives interesting information. makes people think a lot about us o-o;;

[thecampustv]

Great job! We're big fans of your work. Do you ever conduct workshop sessions? We'd be interested in talking about that.

[YogiDanananda]

Do you syndicate these videos anywhere? Itunes for mobile viewing?

[areopagiticascb]

thank you for posting. as a new phd with a teaching career ahead, this blows my mind.

[thpt]

Teachers started using writing to aid teaching when it was invented, books when the printing press came into being, and videos when the technology was available. Those that remain too hidebound to utilize today's technology may find themselves with a set of VHS tapes and an empty classroom.

[rytherix]

why is the video removed?!

[random414]

The video is still up. It's not removed. Just refresh the page; you should be able to see it.

[random414]

Unfortunately, your proposals, even if they are great, they are not down earth. Why? Because most of the teachers are going to school to earn money, not to teach students; even the current simple way "mass/follow" is often violated, what will happen then with the "relationship/participate" method?

You traveled a huge distance in ideas with your presentation... and both with the left/right walk. :) I calculated that you walked about 3 km. Not bad for an hour of talking. I'm just joking. :)

[avkrules]

huh?

i cant find anything less down to earth than expecting a student to learn effectively from an ordinary lecture classroom. i think wesch's ideas are cost effective (if the students are actually learning)

[random414]

Well, yes, what you said, to expect a student to learn effectively from the "student teacher" is really down to earth; but I was not referring to that aspect, I was referring to the "student teacher" aspect.

The proposed new method, learning from the teacher who becomes a part of the students, it's hard to put in practice, it's difficult for the teachers; as a teacher, you just don't have to focus on the topic you are talking about, but you have to be interrupted, to interact,

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[random414]

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to have a distributive attention, to entertain in some way, to answer different questions, to put yourself in different situations, and, in the same time, to maintain the interest on the subject, to finish in time, then to go and do again these things with other 3 classes.

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[random414]

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It's not something impossible for a few teachers, but just for a few; you need strong social skills for this kind of tasks. From my own experience, from my own teachers that I had, I can't name more than 3 which could become a "student teacher".

PS: I never get it... what can you comment in 500 characters? It should be changed to at least 2000 characters.

[avkrules]

I think the best part of Wesch's work is that it seems to suit the teacher's personality. Its not a method to follow, but an idea to consider. Implementation is for a teacher with motivation for effective teaching (, an open mind, and some tech skills). I love the wikinotes idea best - it gives teachers feedback on what the students are grasping and stimulates group participation.

ps. 500 words is not that much of a reach. i got 4 characters left, even with this post script and smiley :) jp

[thecampustv]

"most of the teachers are going to school to earn money". Is that why they earn so little?

how many teachers do you know personally?

[random414]

As long as you do something from inside, with dedication, with passion, money doesn't matter; so if you are a teacher or you are concerned about teachers, and these teachers don't go to school to earn money, you shouldn't focus on money, on why they earn so little, because money should stand on the second row, your main satisfaction should come from the students, when you see that they are happy because they learned something new.

[random414]

Of course, you need to earn something, but not to exaggerate with it.

Second question, first one too, I find them a bit bad intended. I don't want to disagree with you or anyone else on something that's quite subjective and, most importantly, different from place to place, from school to school; the general view that I got from people that I talked to is that money is in first place for teachers... but looks like that the recent "talks" from here try to make me change my mind. :)

[thecampustv]

the people that I know that are teachers don't make a lot of money - at all. They are primarily motivated by inspiring kids to make the most out of life plus they do a lot of volunteer work as well. They're certainly not in it for the money

[random414]

That's a great thing to hear/read!

[BSDNBGOTI]

I'm intrigued by your idea that someone would become a teacher to "make money". I walked away from a career in business making $55K USD to go back to school to get my education degree, so that I could (hopefully) get a job working for $30K, teaching math.

I am sure that its true that some people will become teachers to make money, but the vast majority are doing it because they love the topic that they teach, and they hope to find students who will share the passion they have for their topic.

[chloefae21]

55 K a year is pretty close to poverty.

[BSDNBGOTI]

Acltually, its no where near poverty. Poverty is considered, for a single person in the US, less than $13K. If you are making $55 K and single, you are considered middle class.

The facts are that 20% of the US population lives on less than $10K per year. The wealthiest 10% in the US make more than $108K.

Perhaps you are aspiring to be one of the "ultra-rich"... that one percent of the US population that has 20% of the wealth.

Either way, $55K ISNT poverty. Not even close.

[MATTx602]

no, wrong

[rytherix]

love your presentations

[mikeslogic]

Good stuff, thanks for uploading this.

[rightttt]

omfg

i cant believe this video is an hour...

you get 5 stars for uploading all that...

lol ps i cant watch this right now :D

[ThePrimeSpotcom]

It's funny, an article about podcasting in October 2004 ignited my interest in social media. I'm glad you're covering this, I'd like to add it to my Tech Channel - lately I've been "custom building" youTube TV's!

[LukeChumley]

You're doing great things, Dr. Wesch. I enjoy all of your videos.

[Quazi86]

Hi Wesch,

I love your Idea of creating participation and have been so lucky having a done a module of managing change set out with similiar principals.

Hope my luck will keep up, as this very much appeals to my learning style. Best Christian

[DoctorWho989]

Michael, when is your 'Digital Natives' Library of Congress talk available?

[mwesch]

I'll post it July 19th-ish.

[dudewtfwtf1]

why can't you teach my college?

[MartySchrader]

I don't have a full hour to watch this presentation in its entirety right this moment, but the first ten minutes are enough to tell me I need to set that hour aside. Quoting from McLuhan, of all things! Goodness gracious!

[marduuhin]

Good job!

[futureUApilot]

Very well done.

Thanks

[lifeMac]

Good presentation, but the beginning was very cheesy and 80s.

[mwesch]

lol ... yeah, I probably would not have chosen that intro, but I'm very impressed with the overall quality of the recording created by the University of Manitoba crew that produced this video

[andrewpegoda]

The video was made with wonderful quality! :-)