Follow-up: A Vision of Students Today
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
The best thing about this generation of web tools is the potential for dialogue. More importantly, it’s the ability to put an idea out there, get criticized, rebut that criticism, and still get feedback from the critic. It’s not always that rosy, but when it is, it’s very good.
I want to point you first to a post in which Michael Wesch, the coordinating professor of the “A Vision of Students Today” project noted earlier this week, has highlighted a reply from a reader flipping the perspective of the video back to eyes of a professor. I think the reader’s point will resonate well with many educators.
Equally striking is Wesch’s reply, (Clarifications on “A Vision…”) to a post by District Administrator columnist, Gary Stager. Stager takes Wesch to task and Wesch steps up to the challenge. This is a very well stated reply and represents a top-notch example of such an online exchange.
His most notable statement, in my opinion, without regard to this particular context is this:
The great myth is that these “digital natives” know more about this new information environment than we do. But here’s the reality: they may be experts in entertaining themselves online, but they know almost nothing about educating themselves online.
Again, I’m always interested in your reactions. See the comments link just below this post on the tech blog site and add your reply.
Tags: learning, Technology
November 27th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
I like the clarification article, as an educator it reminded me of why I do what I do! There are days is overwhelming, but there is always the hope that education will make a difference.
Fipping the perspective definitely made me reflect on the world I currently live in, technology moving information very quickly and new ways of doing work, yet so many of the traditional methods still remain in my daily schedule. All I have done is add to what I do each day, I need to utilize the technology to work smarter and not harder.
Thanks, Chad.