A great serendipitious surfing moment: From Bloc de Blocs I stumbled upon Brian Lamb, and then upon his AMAZING RipMixFeedReloaded, a click later I was discovering Mojiti (a tool to write annotations on YouTube videos) and once there I took a look at Mojiti’s Top Spots Set and happened to find this wonderful video by Michael Welsch, again. I found myseld yelling: oh, I love web 2.0.
According to him it’s a
a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today – how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.
I wonder what my students could say about this…Tell us the truth! I’m also tired of ‘reactive’ students. I guess we reap what we sow. I wish I had the power to change things, even though I try to do my best, I guess I’m constrained by a lot of things I shouldn’t name here. It’s not the right moment/place.
A VISION OF STUDENTS TODAY|UNA VISIÓN DE LOS ESTUDIANTES DE HOY
Original video (only English) here.
www.qwabi.ru
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I do not have a clear opinion about what is the reason behind this, maybe the Internet is largely the cause but I can imagine many inter related features of our society are to blame.
Anyway the thing is that I see that learning classical frames are blurring, and that is happening also in other activities such as customer relations and marketing in business environments. Some people are no longer restricted by previous ‘cultural’ frames for their daily activities, such as learning taking place in a classroom with a teacher, and more and more people, specially teenagers and university students, is flexible enough to develop and adopt new more efficient strategies to perform better. Social evolution I guess.
By the way I reckon that to be succesful in this new environment you need to be proactive, so I would expect this to be more and more important, and hopefully more and more common.
Yes, you know that expression on digital natives vs digital immigrants, the buzzword of the year. But I just don’t buy it anymore, I mean, from my experience at this Uni I have realized that we’ve taken for granted many things, so yes they’re young, but most of them don’t know what a blog or a wiki is, or worse, what RSS csn do for them. So I, 31 (turning 32 soon), do know much more about all this than they do and what’s more, I am proactive, I don’t wait for anyone to tell me to do this or that and I try to be up to date. (I haven’t really carried out proper statistics yet..) but I think the ratio is 2 every 10 students. However, I also have noticed that if the teacher is proactive, those proactive students are not ashamed of taking part actively in the whole learning process. And last but not least, who cares about proactive teachers at this University anyways? Is it rewarded? I’m seriously considering consultancy, instead!
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