neit2009+Michael+Wesch

=Michael Wesch lecture=

Live notes and chat: http://etherpad.com/A8dIoTptf2

Final notes
Shared Notes and Back Channel chat for Michael Wesch of Kansas State University Ustream of event is also available via http://neit.wikispaces.com/neit2009+live+video

At the risk of dividing the folks who want to be part of the back-channel, maybe using this for shared note taking and chat is better than the uStream to conserve bandwidth adn because I hear the uStream is having occasional problems.

Please feel free to add notes below:

From Adam Kenner: Evian Babies @ http://www.youtube.com/user/EvianBabies#p/u/0/XQcVllWpwGs

TEDx - additional conferences TEDxNY - at an advertising agency TEDxNYED - 3/6/2010

"Simple" census exercise in village where all they had to do was list names was not so simple because no one had a fixed name. Villagers created a census name, which became part of their identity.

Looking at before and after photos of village housing. After the census everything was lined up straight apparently to make it easer to label the houses with numbers for the census.

"Media are not just tools, not just means of communication; media mediate relationships." "When media change, relationships change." "When relationships change, culture changes" "We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us." (Marshall McLuhan)

"New cyber star" (Gary Brolsma) - Numa Numa (Internet version of the Macarena)

Name of the video Wesch just referenced: "The Machine is Us/ing Us" - [] (If you are at the conference, DEFINITELY don't view it now to conserve bandwidth. Ditto for the live stream... or downloading stuff... etc...) Harness the power of the world because information becomes User Generated and moves to User Generated: Filter, Organization and finally Distribution system driven by User Generated Ratings It is a a collaborative enviornment Which includes remixing
 * User-Generated Content?
 * User-Generated Filter?
 * User-Generated Organization: YouTube commenting, diggs, social book marking
 * User-Generated Distribution: Pulling content into your own portal page such as iGoogle or netvibes.
 * User-Generated Ratings

Participatory moves across space and time and invites and inspires people to join in a movement. How whould this have changed movements around the world? Would we still have them? This technology is disruptive to walls and removes the guardians of the walled

What's on YouTube: Soulja Boy video - created by grassroots movement, participatory media
 * 15% of the videos on YouTube are remixes of videos.

Michael's YouTube page is at [] RT @matthewlipstein @mwesch 's 50 minute video "An anthropological introduction to YouTube" [] #neit2009

YouTube "Free Hugs" - inspires collective action

YouTube "MadV" - collective expression of emotion

Walls that are coming down because of social media: Wikipedia's strength is transparency in producing the information on the page (discussion, history, etc).
 * To learn is to aquire information.
 * and to challenge, critique information
 * Authorized information is beyond discussion.
 * negated by YouTube - transparency, history, user-generated content

To learn is to discuss, create, share information Real learning happens through collaboration and sharing, connection

Don't just create knowledgeable students, create students who are knowledge-able "How can we create students who can create meaningful connections?"

Transformation in Learning (Belenkey, Clinchy, et. al.): []
 * Receptive
 * Subjective (after students break out of receptive) - student don't have any means to figure out which knowledge is better than the other. Students are rebel agains the teacher.
 * Procedural - which info is more valid than others
 * Constructive - integrating all three above

"the constructive learner feels responsible for examining, questioning, and developing the systems that they will use for constructing knowledge."

Challenges of the New Mediascape: "How can we create students who can create meaningful connections?"
 * Ambient Attention
 * Information Overchoice ("Surfing")

Students ask why aren't we the real world now? Let the walls be down and work as if in the real world...connected.

"A Vision of Students Today" - [] Video being show as created by opening a Google doc for all 200 students to edit. They made 367 revisions. Got over 3 million views & thousands of comments. Even got to ABC News.

For Michael's class, each students has a blog. The RSS feed for each blog is combined into on via a Yahoo pipe and the agregated feed is posted on a NetVibes. Comments are aggregated in a similiar fashion. Digital Ethnography class page: []

Details on the platform for Michael's class are at []

Wesch's class uses Diigo. [|http://www.diigo.com]

Parker Palmer, "The Courage to Teach" - rather than being an expert teaching amateurs, become a fellow "knower" working with other "knowers"

Michael Wesch doing "jigsaw" type activity in google docs - All students read independently and report back to increase amount of information. 94 articles read and summarized. (Anyone get the link to the page they're using for those articles? Don't think they're Diigo.)using yahoo pipe to organize student blogs. For tag clouds, possibly Scuttle or some similar self-hosted social bookmarking platform?

Class project on anonymity: students created individual video trailers of information then combined them and cut to final presentation. - Then did a collaborative paper on the topic of anonymity. - Then created a document of the main points that cover the topic of anonymity - Then students create 5 min videos on a main point from the list, organize into a string of videos in a sort of documentary - This led to "An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube"

Michael recommends having students make a trailer near the beginning of class of something they are excited about so they can go back during lulls and get reinvigorated.

"World Simulation" game project - [] Engage real problems (culture project w/the "odd" map) Do this with the students (massive scaling of collaboration re: making of video)

Facts in Michael's classroom about which they ask why: Danger of YouTube, other social media: creates the illusion of a meaningful connection without actually creating the connection - the answer(?): media literacy? So what is a meaningful connection? - connecting to the real world, connecting to each other - "meaning" is a human construction; comes from people -- so what's important to the world, to society?
 * 1.3 billion live on less than $1 a day
 * 800 million are nourished

(Image of fill in the bubble testing card) Students stop asking "What do we need to know for that test" and start asking (Image of the earth): "What do we need to know for THIS test?"
 * Part II of session: **

History of Academia (as told in 2020) - what's the link?

Question is not just "have we prepared our students for this world" Question is "have we prepared our students TO CREATE this world"

Jay Matthews, Wash Post, Jan 5 2009: current interest in collaborative learning is just the latest pedagogical fad []

"Back to Basics" critique of New Media Literacy - pandering to students - allowing play rather than learning - neglects basic literacy skills - difficult to implement

New Media Literacy critique of "Back to Basics" - Panders to students - Neglects basic literacy skills -- need to expand definition of literacy - Difficult to implement -- cheap, but ineffective; results in tuned-out students

Much history of innovations seen as the future of education - chalkboard - motion picture - "2-way TV"- Buckminster Fuller, 1962 -- a precursor to the internet?

Powerpoint: "Helps the presenter remember their notes while doing great harm to the presentation." - lets students memorize "key points," lets the professor determine which points are "key"

Future of school Questions every teacher should ask: Our society is a differentiated society: constantly produces new subcultures, individual identities - but those subcultures are thin, little historical depth - much cultural knowledge, built over 1000s of years, is being lost -- this is not a result just of new media; began many years ago -- industrial revolution, etc.
 * search for solutions
 * search for solutions
 * search for solutions
 * What are "basic" literacy skills?
 * What am I //really// teaching?
 * // Is my teaching a hinderance to learning? //
 * What use are they?
 * What is education for?
 * How should I deliver my content?
 * Should I deliver content?
 * Why?
 * What //is// "learning"?
 * Are these walls necessary?

Wisdom of the Crowds (video): []

John Seeley Brown: []

Issues of citations/attribution - how do you get remixers to realize the importance of citation?

Questions to post on your mirror (Postman) Dennis Littky - __Doc__: [] (added after the fact by Laurie) - Dennis Littky Big Picture Learning
 * What is my learning for?

The key to implementing this sort of learning: how do we create the assessment for this sort of learning that we can actually sell to the assessors?

Jim Groom - Wordpress plugin - multi-student private blog: Wordpress MU: []

Includes online quizzes and scantrons for student grade. Looking into having students grade essays through electronic system that evaluates their form of grading.

Importance of anonymous assesment from students - allows "free-riders" to get their come-uppance...

How Michael preps for (big) class: Ritual from Africa that Michael uses: Uses pencils as truth telling stick related to the story of the misole? tree. Students can grab a pencil come to the front and say what they want. He starts then sits in the audience with his 200 students. After a few minutes. students come out and start talking. The rule is you can't put the stick down until you feel you're done speaking your peace and have resolved your issue.
 * Spends 2 - 3 weeks doing straight lecture but they are his best lectures that the fate of the course depends on. This is the pitch and then you give the class the ability to opt in to this new way of taking a course or they could pick the traditional higher-ed lecture format.

Chat: November 13, 2009 9:27 Sean: Be sure to add your names on the top right of the window. 9:28 Bill: Please feel free to add notes are what you feel is a naration of the talk in the notes windows on the left. 9:31 Bill: Seems something like the "star wars" boy except the guy being featured wanted to be public. 9:40 Sean: (If you are at the conference, DEFINITELY don't view it now to conserve bandwidth. Ditto for the live stream... or downloading stuff... etc...) 9:49 Liz: Now we know how swine flu started spreading 9:50 Sean: Be sure to add your names on the top right of the Etherpad window. 9:55 Bill: side-note that just occured to me: By partcipating in shared note taking and chat I think I'm more easily integrating what I'm hearing into my mental schema even though it seems distracting on the surface. 9:57 Sean Dagony-Clark: people are duplicating notes; look @ the bottom before adding to the middle!!! 9:57 Sean Dagony-Clark: again: people are duplicating notes; look @ the bottom before adding to the middle!!! 9:58 Sean Dagony-Clark: @Bill: agreed wholeheartedly. 10:03 Sean Dagony-Clark: Be sure to add your names on the top right of the Etherpad window. 10:06 Laurie: tried to add my name but it doesn't take. anyway, i added the one green line about the macarena ;-) 10:11 Bill Campbell: @Laurie Your name is showing up (as is mine), but I've noticed I don't see my name in the last (maybe because it is listed out seperately at the top). 10:11 Sean Dagony-Clark: @Bill: yes, that's how it works. I see both your and @Laurie's names. 10:13 Bill Campbell: I want to be an undergrad again with Michael as my professor. The two anth classes I took were nothing like this: 10:13 Bill Campbell: Of course there was not really a digital "culture". 10:14 Bill Campbell: The video of the factories remind me that much of our current education system was designed to train those workers. 10:15 Laurie: Okay, who is going to ask Michael if he will run an anthro class for all of us-for teachers? 10:18 Sean Dagony-Clark: @Laurie: Maybe at TEDxNYED he'll do that... 10:21 Bill Campbell: @Laurie If the opportunity arises, I will. 10:21 Bill Campbell: (ask that is) 10:22 Laurie: @Bill Campbell :-) 10:25 Bill Campbell: The simulation game Michael is showing sounds like something I think is called "World Games" that some K12 schools use. We are doing one with our 4th and 5th grade in January. (I don't know much about it yet.) 10:26 Sean Dagony-Clark: I wonder how much the parallels in this project were driven by student knowledge of world history (vs. organic experience) 10:27 Sean Dagony-Clark: Depressing... 10:27 Bill Campbell: From what I understand, the world game that I'm talking about has been a very good experience with 5th graders even with very little prep so I would think that is organic. 10:34 Laurie: @Bill Campbell - bless your soul! 10:41 Laurie: @Bill C-I'm guessing it was you who asked the question. Thanks! 10:55 Sean Dagony-Clark: If you're not taking notes, please drop your pad session. We only get 16 collaborators in the free version. I'll post the final notes here: http://neit.wikispaces.com/neit2009+Michael+Wesch 10:57 Laurie: will check out & catch notes later. Thank you EVERYONE for note taking. Much appreciated. 11:00 Bill Campbell: By the way, free Etherpad only allows 16 users. I got locked out after reconnecting one time, but a browser refresh got me back in. 11:01 Sean Dagony-Clark: @unnamed users: if not notetaking, please drop your pad session. We only get 16 collaborators in the free version. I'll post the final notes here: http://neit.wikispaces.com/neit2009+Michael+Wesch 11:02 Bill Campbell: The people in this images look like something from the film Tron. 11:03 Bill Campbell: @Sean We only have 12 in the session now so we are fine at the moment for lurkers or people who want to back-channel chat but not take notes. 11:03 Bill Campbell: Rather be inclusive when possible. :) 11:04 Sean Dagony-Clark: Agreed. But people trying to connect were getting refused just before. 11:14 Sean Dagony-Clark: FYI, all these images are from one of his videos on YouTube... forget which one... 11:15 Sean Dagony-Clark: Maybe "The Machine is (Constructing) Us" or something like that. 11:15 Bill Campbell: @Sean Yes, I've seen it but I don't remember either. 11:22 Bill Campbell: That's a calc professor I wish I had. I (and many peers) kept asking why I had to take 3 semesters of calc for a CS major. 11:29 Bill Campbell: Trying to have them use sources appropriately (regarding copyright) is really hard. I don't think it is important for legal reasons but just because it is the right thing to do. 11:30 Bill Campbell: You have to work to fine images that are not "all rights reserved" even with Creative Commons. I just did that exercise with students a week ago.) 11:31 Sean Dagony-Clark: @Bill there are some good sites out there for free stock photos. sxc.hu, morguefile.com. 11:32 Bill Campbell: Option fo doing a Google image search for Creative Commons licensed media is there (buried under advanced) but once you find the image it is often difficult (or almost impossible) to find any indication of license at the original source. 11:32 Sean Dagony-Clark: @Bill: speaks to Siva's comment re: how Google's ability to search breaks the traditional boundaries of copyright. 11:33 Bill Campbell: @Sean Agreed. 11:35 Jen D.: @Bill when doing image searches with kids, I ususally go to Flickr, that has user-defined lisences. Also, a great Help page on the liscences themselves. 11:37 Bill Campbell: @Jen Yes, Flickr is a good source. They actually use Creative Commons licenses. 11:43 Sean Dagony-Clark: Really amazing experience to take notes collaboratively like this. I wonder how many teachers would welcome this? 11:48 Bill Campbell: I tried ti with 8th graders a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't a roaring success, but I think it might have improved after the novelty wore off.