Video: A Vision of Students Today
Something to chew on. Take a look at this short film (If the clips are missing in your email or RSS reader, go direct to the tech blog and view it there).
(Courtesy of TeacherTube)
More clips are available at mediacultures.net at Kansas State University. A transcript is available on the class blog.
So… what do you think? I realize there are an abundance of ‘ya, buts,” but I’m interested in your thoughts on what this means for us today. What reasonable steps could be taken in the direction needed? Be careful not to dismiss that content as irrelevant just because these are older students. Add your comments/responses on the Instructional Tech blog site.
Two other sidenotes:
1.) The collaborative editing tool noted in the video is Google Docs. It is free, accessible anywhere online (It remains blocked in some districts. Ask.), and includes essential word processing, spreadsheet and presentation tools. This is a great tool for collaborative student projects, especially in that it tracks user edits making it possible to see who’s actively participating.
2.) Some people have raised the points the students make about using Facebook and working on other things during class as just cause to ban the use of laptops and other devices from the classroom, most commonly in college settings. The real question this raises is whether the laptops are the cause or the effect of the distraction.
Monday, November 5th, 2007
