TEDxKC – Michael Wesch – From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-Able
(Thanks @mscofino for sharing the link to the video on Twitter)
Most salient points (my thoughts in purple)
- A good question leads people on a quest. What are the questions being asked in your classroom?
- We need to move our students from meaning-seekers to meaning-creators?
- We should be preparing students for the test of their lives.
- What’s in the air is nearly the entire body of human knowledge … It is a new media landscape.
- Media mediates relationships. Makes me think of the words of Marshall McLuhan, “The medium is the message.”
- The technology of creating, collaborating, etc. is easy but really hard because students/people need to practice it. The doing is not innate. We need to model and give students opportunities to exercise the skills/abilities.