From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-Able

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.
Related Post:   Guiding Children's Technology Use

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.