If you haven't seen them yet, here are three must-see videos from Dr. Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University:
Other videos are available at the Moving Forward videos wiki page (feel free to add some more!).
I just clicked on your blog because I was going to send you a link to the "Visions of Students Today" since I am little blogger and you are a big blogger I thought it would be more effective if you got the message out ; ) Glad to see you posted them. There is a link in the YouTube description to a high quality download. I highly recommend it. There is a big difference. There is also a high quality download for the "Machine is Us."
Posted by: Paul Bogush | October 14, 2007 at 06:46 PM
Little blogger here too, glad to see the videos posted. I loved them. I also added a video to your wiki.
http://www.fi.ncsu.edu/initiatives/havingoursay/video.html
It was done at the Friday Institute at NC State University. It is middle schoolers giving their perspectives on school, technologies, and academic engagement.
Posted by: Aaron Slutsky | October 14, 2007 at 07:01 PM
Paul and Aaron,
1. There are no "little" bloggers, only undiscovered bloggers. =)
2. Thanks for the links, the comments, and the addition to Moving Forward!
Posted by: Scott McLeod | October 14, 2007 at 07:27 PM
Do you have a non-Youtube version of the above videos? Youtube is blocked at school so it makes it difficult to show the students.
Posted by: Brandt Schneider | October 14, 2007 at 07:49 PM
I've seen the first one--and have even showed it to our staff--but I have never seen the second or third one. Thanks for showing those to us. Good stuff.
Posted by: Rick | October 14, 2007 at 09:24 PM
Cool
I'd seen the firs tone but not the second or third.
I've added them to a wiki I am developing for drafting ICT policy for my school.
http://russels-ict-wiki.wikispaces.com/The+world+has+changed
Posted by: Russel Montgomery | October 14, 2007 at 10:00 PM
I, too, would love high-res versions of these latest ones. I've shown the YouTube versions a few times, but they're tough to read.
Checked Wesch's Digital Ethnography blog and couldn't find anything...
Posted by: Scott Elias | October 15, 2007 at 02:11 PM
I showed the video A Vision of Students to all of my kids today and was amazed at their response. To summarize the opinions of 100 kids in one sentence -- "The video was made to show kids how they waste their time doing useless things and should do the work they are given because college costs a lot of money and doing well in college will lead to a more successful future." It took a while for them to believe that it was not their fault for feeling bored and uninterested in school(every class except mine of course : )
Posted by: Paul Bogush | October 15, 2007 at 05:20 PM