Comments on: Michael Wesch’s Presentation to Library of Congress

By: If you’re amazed how technology is influencing society, you GOT to watch this video!! Definitely worth the hour! « Tales of a Technology Omnivore

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:34:37 +0000

[...] 17, 2008 · No Comments Will Richardson found an amazing video by Michael Welsch on the anthropological perspective of social video sharing [...]

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By: Olga

Olga — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:08:15 +0000

Absolutely fantastic approach – very non-judgmental, very positive, very life-promoting. Great concept of “context collapse”, applicable in so many other cases, but simply poignant here. Amazing videos… Dig(g) it!

By: Seb

Seb — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:31:21 +0000

Fascinating video – thanks for alerting me to it. Increasingly I feel that there are two worlds there, one online and one offline. Now and then they meet.

By: Dave Waltman

Dave Waltman — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:01:04 +0000

User-generated education.

By: Margaret King

Margaret King — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:57:56 +0000

Really off topic, could you tell me who wrote

“The Nature of Change”? “Change more often than not reflects the status quo that stifles progress and stagnates creativity and evolution. New lights will prevail”.

I would really like to have the author’s name.

Thank you.

Margaret King

By: Gary Stager

Gary Stager — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:06:21 +0000

Right. Understanding the world is always a good idea for educators.

By: Will Richardson

Will Richardson — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:27:43 +0000

@Gary I seem to write my posts these days with your avatar on my shoulder. The first line of the third paragraph was written for you… ;0)

Little wisdom for education, maybe, but I think a good bit of wisdom for educators. All of this requires our understanding on some level. Whether or not it requires a systemic rethink is another question…

By: Will Richardson

Will Richardson — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:24:48 +0000

Thanks for the comment Tim. I think we need to understand YouTube in a larger context, and this video seems to make that clear. Not that we’ll start taking down the filters, but maybe we’ll start thinking about what it means for our culture and our kids.

By: Gary Stager

Gary Stager — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:56:58 +0000

PS: While I really admire the work of Wesch here, it is worth pointing out that his still may have offer little wisdom for education

By: Gary Stager

Gary Stager — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:55:16 +0000

I agree. This talk is very good – MUCH better than that crappy exploitation video about how schools suck.

Wesch is a smart guy.

By: Terry Smith

Terry Smith — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:11:37 +0000

Indeed – I’d seen this Wesch video a while back. I love how he manages to put together such clear, cogent, appealing presentations. Loved the spreading video of the participatory culture – great examples of social content phenomena, communities in decline reconnecting themselves with today’s tools.

By: Nadine N

Nadine N — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:37:32 +0000

I learned a great deal about the YouTube phenomenon from this video. It is definitely worth the time to see it. I would also like to recommend another hour of time – Michael Wesch’s lecture at University of Manitoba on June 17th, 2008, A Portal to Media Literacy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4yApagnr0s

Thanks for this post, Will. I have encouraged everyone I know to follow Mr. Wesch’s work.

By: Kristin Hokanson

Kristin Hokanson — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:20:13 +0000

Will
Glad you are 4 days late…cause I just zeroed out my reader that built up over vacation and I am SO GLAD I didn’t miss it!

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:14:12 +0000

Keeping current is a very relative concept. I’m four days and seventeen minutes late to this video so thanks for the post (and the tweet).

I’m listening to it as I write this but I can already tell that Wesch’s presentation should be a great conversation starter (as are his others), especially when we talk to administrators and teachers about reflexively blocking YouTube instead of finding ways to make use of it.