Here are the two videos he showed:
And here are my notes from the first time I heard him speak:
Morning Keynote - Michael Wesch, Kansas State
- http://www.mediatedcultures.net
- Students are seeking meaning & identity
- You have to go out and find these things because they're not taught
- We need to convince students that search for meaning is not something you seek, but something you create. Turn them into meaning-makers
- Pay attention to questions students are asking
- Great questions lead you on a quest
- Students were asking questions like "Do I need to know this for the test?"
- How many like school? 50% of hands were raised
- How many do not like learning? No hands went up
- There's something in the air...WiFi access literally
- We need to move from knowledgeable to knowledge-able
- It's not just info literacy or critical thinking --Communication, Empathy, Thoughtfulness
- Did fieldwork in New Guinea
- Villages completely off the grid
- Completely "unmediated"
- Experienced ultimate loss of identity
- Identity and recognition there is given -- everyone you meet, you now. Not here
- When writing came into his village, there was no "opting out", like technology here
- Media Ecology: Every medium creates certain possibilities and takes away others
- Media mediate relationships -- media change, relationships change
- Living rooms changed when TV came -- furniture had to face the tv
- Conversations controlled by the few, consumed by the masses
- Neil Postman -- Amusing Ourselves to Death -- Brave New World or 1984?
- A Brief History of "Whatever"
- Generation Me - Jean M. Twenge, PhD (kids go through a "Quarterlife Crisis"
- Yes, we need "critical thinking" around media, but now we need something more, like "participatory thinking."
- "Information Literacy" is too short-sighted
- User-Generated Content, User-Generated Filtering, User-Generated organization, User-Generated distribution, User-Generated Ratings (digg, delicious, rss feeds, etc.)
- New Commerce
- Dove's beauty video was responded to with a video about Dove's use of Palm oil.
- Changed the company. "Dove campaign for real beauty"
- When you do something like talking back to Dove, it's more than Information Literacy
- If you type "pwn" inside of youtube you can download the video (http://deturl.com)
- weforum.org vs. we-forum.org (created by 2 guys called the Yesmen -- try to reframe people's identities) fake WTO site, would be invited to major news programs
- new media = new forms of control -- students need to be aware of this
- Shawn Ahmed
- walked out of Graduate School...and to Bangladesh
- He recreated ngos with the Uncultured Project: http://uncultured.com/
- Music
- OPSound -- http://opsound.org/
- Eric Whitacre - online conductor conducting choir of singers on Youtube
- Ushahidi Kenya
- During an uprising, citizens could sign up for alerts using street maps...networked together about what's going on
- Tufts students used it during Haiti earthquake to take in 200,000 messages and ort them
- Classroom chairs should turn so they can face each other to discuss
- Antiquated idea = to learn is to ACQUIRE information - "nested epistemologies"
- Power corrupts. Powerpoint corrupts absolutely - Edward Tufte
- "The opposite of compulsion is not freedom but communion" - Martin Buber
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