Dr. Wesch just posted some thoughts about Participatory Media, a.k.a. Social Media, a subset of Web 2.0. Most interesting is his point about barriers to participatory media in the classroom by faculty and students, yes students. The surprising-to-most-people-fact is that students would prefer less technology in the classroom (especially *participatory* technologies that force them to [...]
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Wesch: A Portal to Media Literacy
Dr. Wesch is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. If you haven’t heard of him, you should have, he and his students have created some powerful YouTube videos, The Machine is Us/ing Us, A Vision of Students Today, and Information R/evolution. These short videos shine a light on how we use [...]
