Michael Wesch is an anthropology professor at Kansas State University and has made a series of videos with his students that address some of the issues we have discussed in our exploration of digital ecology.
This one in particular made me thing of a lot of points brought up in the classroom (some directly, some indirectly).
This video has come up in several different contexts for me in the last year. On one level, this is a video about students, “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.” But it was created in the collaborative context we have discussed this semester – real time edits to a Google Doc. And what it reveals is a student body inextricable from the technology they utilize and that surrounds them. In fact, technology is a huge focus in this video.
My favorite quotes:
“When I graduate I will probably have a job that doesn’t exist today.”
“I will write 42 pages for class this semester. and over 500 pages of email.”
“I am a multi-tasker. (I have to be).”
Me too.
