No Future Left Behind
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Uploaded by KnowclueKidd on Mar 4, 2009
This film was created as the Keynote for Net Generation Education Project:
http://tiny.cc/glLA7
When kids at the Suffern Middle School were asked to talk about education and their future, they gave Peggy Sheehy, the SMS media specialist, an earful. Listen and learn the bits of wisdom that can be gleaned from the students, if we only dare to ask them.
Students from The Elisabeth Morrow School Tech Club contributed machinima created in Quest Atlantis.
Marianne Malmstrom (aka Knowclue) worked remotely with the students of Suffern to create machinima of their avatars on Teen Second Life.
Original music, "Harpsicord" was created by a former Suffern Middle School student, Larry Bordowitz.
All editing was done by educators Peggy Sheehy, Suffern Middle School and Marianne Malmstrom, The Elisabeth Morrow School.
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The power of this video is in its message and the way it is articulated. It's brilliant and very important. For that, I give it an enthusiastic five stars and am disseminating it as far and wide as I can...
It's weakness is its length. Under 3 minutes would be far more effective than nearly 6. Ironically, it's ones who most need to see this, that are more likely to have 3 minutes to spare than 6....
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I'm bored is just an easy copout phrase for middle schoolers. If a picture or sound continues for more than 6 seconds then it is boring. They need activities that increase attention span. I had my first graders listen to the entire Adagio for Strings, without any visuals or movement, and not one student fell asleep or disrupted the listening. Afterwords they talked about how the music affected them. One student said the music made him think about his dad.(who had recently passed on).
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AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET US FREE
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Interesting. The students complain they are bored and that school should be more like a game, but this video repeats the same thing over and over. It is characteristic of our times that middle school students think adults should listen to them. Everyone today undervalues education and experience. I'd like to see them dance and play their way to supporting themselves and contributing to society. (I have a Ph.D. and I know I don't have all the answers).
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i dont get it
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Yes education needs an upgrade but we need to stop bashing teachers and start giving them the experience you are talking about with these kids. What we are asking of them, they do not have to give. The system they live in today will not allow them to learn. Start by allowing teachers to gain the experience with these new tools and stop blocking them in school.
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@KnowclueKidd @KnowclueKidd More confrontational than poignant. Creating a condensed version seems a small price to pay in order to get the message across... that said, this is for me one of the most powerful and memorable YouTube videos of all time, and I continue to show it wherever and however I can. When the revolution comes, and it will come, this video will have played a major role! No joke.
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I dont normally leave comments but this is a great video!
'i cant create my future with the tools of your past' = Fantastic! I find the topic of 'net gen' fasanating @ 1st I didn't believe there could be such a differenec between generations, 2 years later I see the difference is HUGE HUGE HUGE god its like generation Y (dont take this personal) are a bunch of apathtic consuming zombies who cant see past the rotten carrot at the end of their nose! VIVA LA REVOLUTION cos NET GeN R HeRE!
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Provocative and Engaging! I pass it on.
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You both make a valid point about length, one that has been made several times before. Considering this video was created as a keynote presentation, one might say that it is remarkably concise. Still, in response to all the feedback, we did ask students if they were willing shorten the video for mass distribution. Their response was quite poignant. They wanted to know why they had to listen to teachers for 6 hours a day but teachers couldn't listen to them for 6 minutes.
KnowclueKidd 1 year ago 7