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Monday, December 6, 2010

Michael Wesch

A portal to media literacy

This video was for the Wimba session last week. However, I wanted to view it again and take notes this time. So here's my notes and screenshots from video.


Crisis of significance:
Moving beyond rote memorization: all the information is floating around us at any given moment. “The reality is the vast majority of human knowledge is actually floating in the air all around us right now. And a better skill might be to find a way to harness that information, critique it, and maybe create something new out of it.”

YouTube video: more hours of video uploaded in last six months than the previous ½ century of tv broadcasting

Collective Intelligence. “Nobody is as smart as everybody.” Kevin Kelly

Web 1.0 – text – no interaction

Web 2.0 – interaction

“Information can find us” through RSS

“looking glass self” Cooley

“Law of accelerating returns”  Ray Kirswell

killerstartups.com

Think about learning environments as platforms for participation…allow students to understand emerging media

Students work harder for peers than for professors 

student created notes in Wiki are powerful study tools for tests - teacher allowed to see learning process

Metcalf's Law N(N-1)/2 = group connections

Reed's Law for possible subgroups and their value = 2n-N-1

Places to follow: 

"Have we prepared our students for this?"
"this is not a download world but an upload world"





Screenshot video created in iMovie.

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