Portal! The cake is a lie!!

This is so stupid... But i love my mom deeply... And i don't want to take any chances. Sorry. If you do not copy and paste this onto 10 videos your mom will die in 4 hours

I homeschool and while I am far from a man of letters, I can vouch for this fact: Engagement is the key. The easiest path to engagement is to present the new and unknown in a format that encourages discovery. If you can remember your own moments of discovery, and especially the ignorance that preceeded them, then you can teach anyone anything. Unless they watch Fox News. Slam!

My 12 year old daughter just called Prof. Wesch on the fact he was teaching in the "Mass/Follow" model! I question whether the purpose of education is to inform and equip the student to live in the world, or indoctrinate them to a point of helplessness needed to force participation in the 'endless' cycle of production and consumption that characterizes industrialized civilization. So there!

Tom, we will!!!!!!!!

I wish to be able to bring that ideas to the Czech Republic...

Just great and easy to understand

educational literature has been saying this stuff for years, and years, I am referring to the first 8 min. Please make sure you take a look at that literature dr. wesch!

I think the time for schooling is long enough. What the schools essentially do is say "Here is the information; deal with it". What schools fail to do is teach students important life lessons that would significantly change the direction of their thinking process that would affect their perception of the world. What schools don't do is teach students to learn how to to learn. Life is a learning process and people don't know how to use that to their advantage. Excellent syllogism @ 4:30.

I like to say that the whole school system isn't long enough. The time given to try to learn the massive amount of information just isn't long enough, not to mention that the way in which is done isn't that successful. The best way to learn is to teach, teaching forces you to remeber the information better, and everytime you do it you begin to add things in trying to make it more interesting. This is how school should be.

Superb.

Corporate Instructional Designers create an environment that you describe. We design for adult learners who have life experience and need to share and do more hands on. How do we build a classroom environment that facilitates that? Interesting that instructors/designers see digital technology as a tool to communicate in a learning environment; we use it for every other aspect of our lives. Do you have any data showing information retained is more relevant or more meaningful for students?

1 hour OMG! I had never see a video that can last an hour!

mojomayes, how can you pass this on? this is the forth video from wesch that you spammed with this message.just stop, it's just not funny. it's sad

Hey..well, what can a massive amount of people do to change education so it becomes passionate, engaging, and real?So, we all follow and support some groups/non-profits, what have you, that fight for a goal for change and a better way of doing something.How do we petition?Who do we go to, to make this change on a wide scale?For those that care and have a smaller amount of time there needs to be someway to support financially a cause for better education, or some way to symbolically do this.

Mark this as a spam!!!!! DONT READ IT!!!!! If you do not copy and paste this onto 10 videos your mom will die in 4 hours

then run simulation through year 2050. The simulation has parallels to actual events. The world ends badly, students reflect- "did we miss any solutions?" etc. Bonus idea: setting up games and simulations with very different rules and metaphors, we can escape some problematic worldviews (the place of competition, economic growth as the sole metric and engine of prosperity. etc.) or at least gain insight into how powerful they are and begin to mitigate them. See game Starpower for an example.

The simulation described at the end is an amazing example of how harnessing creativity and interaction really drives students to engage the issues so much more deeply In short, for a intro cultural anthro class, students create an entire mock world set in 1450 (involving lots of research because, while fictional, the ethnographies have to be realistic) and then discuss how to make it into a simulation/game (requiring research in political sscience, economics, systems theory, etc) and ...

Good point. Sometimes it isn't the method, but the excitement the method generates in the teacher herself that carries the day.

Nicely put. And someow very hard when I am trying to ram all my required content into my studetns...

Fantastic video.

he probably has an account with special privileges, one of which will be the ability to make longer videos...

Compression. You probably have a high resolution on your videos which make them take up more space and therefore either your software can't handle more than 8min of that res or you don't have the hard-disc space for it ;) It's my best guess anyway.

how can you make a hour movie? i can only 8 minutes

hey read Don't laugh at this! Just do it Start thinking something you really really want cause this is astounding the person that sent this to me said their wish came true 10 mins after they read the mail so I thought what the heck You have just been visited by DrSuess's Cat in the Hat. He will grant you one wish Make your wish when the count down is over 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 MAKE A WISH Send this to 10 videos within the hour you read this. If you do, your wish will come true