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Michael Wesch and his students are planning a new video. Unlike his acclaimed video Visions of Students Today, this video will be from the perspective of the student. Wesch has a call up on Youtube asking for video submissions that he and his students will be able to remix. Looking forward to seeing what he develops. More importantly I am looking forward to seeing our students perspective on learning.
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Nothing else needs to be said…
Clay sums up his argument powerfully with the following statement:
What’s going to make the difference here is what Dean Kamen said, the inventor and entrepreneur. Kamen said, “Free cultures get what they celebrate.” We’ve got a choice before us. We’ve got this trillion hours a year. We can use it to crack each other up, and we’re going to do that. That, we get for free. But we can also celebrate and support and reward the people trying to use cognitive surplus to create civic value. And to the degree we’re going to do that, to the degree we’re able to do that, we’ll be able to change society.
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Wesch condenses his argument to a signal statement – we need to move our focus from moving our students to being knowledgeable to knowledge-able. This is NOT simply a matter of semantics – it is foundational to were we need to be if we really want the enhance our learning environments.
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We don’t have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is how well we DO it – Erik Qualman