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Friday, February 11, 2011

Dr. Michael Wesch, Cultural Anthropology Professor at Kansas State University, digital ethnographer

I've assembled a few of Michael Wesch's publications. If you've read Marshall McLuhan or Neil Postman, though, you've heard over half of this already. It's mostly about how the internet and modern technology change how society interacts, learns, behaves, and thinks.

His work sparked my interest in this subject and inspired my previous blog post.


His website at Kansas State
http://ksuanth.weebly.com/wesch.html
His YouTube channel. Some of his videos are redundant, so I listed the best, most recent, and my favorites.
mwesch
http://www.youtube.com/user/mwesch



Anti-Teaching: Confronting the Crisis of Significance
A good 'intro' article, though more pop-science like in language.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6358393/AntiTeaching-Confronting-the-Crisis-of-Significance

Good six minute 'intro' videos; they raise issues but withhold answers.
Rethinking Education (mostly speaking; dyslexic friendly)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xb5spS8pmE
A Vision of Students Today (no speaking; not dyslexic friendly)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o



Two of my favorite articles and videos of his. The video is an hour long, but the article is, in my opinion, an essay version of the video. These are his most detailed and informative media, in my opinion.
A Portal to Media Literacy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4yApagnr0s
From Knowledge to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments | Academic Commons
http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/knowledgable-knowledge-able



The Machine is (Changing) Us:
Another favorite, but not as education oriented as the others.
:30 minutes, but has the 1984/BNW comparison I sent you in its first minute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09gR6VPVrpw



He and his students are currently working on a project in which students of his and around the world record videos during classes to get "Visions of Students Today" from the student perspective, inverse to the teacher perspective of the original "Vision of Students Today".

The Visions of Students Today - Call for Submissions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUMWEmeFlyU

"The Visions of Students Today" 2011 Remix One (trailer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_XNG3Mndww