Accept YouTube

You say "pushing new mediums into traditional models is not what we should be doing," but your entire lesson is presented as if YouTube were an old fashioned chalk board (which would not have bothered me so much if there was time to read the longer passages). A voice reading the text (reinforcement) would have been easier to learn from. Cute use of the rodent, complete with sound effects.

TOUR #1: EDUCATION. Dan pushes us to consider what we might gain from, and how we need to approach, the waning of the strength of the entertainment/education binary. On YouTube, learning comes best from speed, summary, repetition, humor, and the popular. For more, see my blog: aljean at wordpress dot com. Also, you can join the tour by adding comments or video responses. Make sure to label them as part of the tour

by the way, although we disagree, your video is still an engaging one, and made me think about the issue.

by the way the video in my favorites about the topic of "concision" is called "Chomsky y las senales de humo".

I suggest the book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman. I was assigned it by Stuart McConnell as a Pizter student. The book argues that the problem isn't that t.v. is stupid. Most people accept that. The problem is when people start expecting to get "informed" or educated by a stupid medium, because it sensationalizes important information and the way our culture communicates.

Its actualy pretty easy to show how television inherently discourages learning. Some big ways are "concision"(in my "favs" is a video on the topic), that tv is "imaged based" so it evokes emotioanl responses not rational(google that for studies done), visual mediums stress the importance of "looks", tone, and attractiveness, so if a journalist, for example, looks attractive and "professional" we believe them, regardless of what they're even saying or expertise.

First of all, I would like to say thanks for responding, and that I think it is cool that you take this so seriuosly.

My point is that overall, this medium does not encourage learning. Yes, it can be education, such as videos from your class, but would you agree that those are exceptions? I find that mostly YouTube videos and users do not come onot this site expecting to learn. Maybe you see it differently.

The 500 character limit hardly limits response, considering YouTube is a video site, and thus "conversation" is presumed to occur through video. And I do not see how television inherently discourages learning. It might not be "traditional" learning, but that is the entire point of my video--pushing new mediums into traditional models is not what we should be doing.

You've got to come at me with some better arguments than "we can learn from it". We can learn from a dicatator, too. Doesn't mean we should have one.