Seit einigen Wochen findet man überall auf den unterschiedlichsten Blogs Hinweise zu einem kurzen Video des amerikanischen Anthropologen Michael Wesch: The Machine is Us/ing Us. Er erklärt darin recht anschaulich diverse Netztechniken und deren Möglichkeiten für den Einsatz (nicht nur) in digitalen Lernumgebungen. Für Leute, die sich den ganzen Tag in der Blogosphäre rumtreiben, nicht unbedingt neu, aber auf jeden Fall interessant in der Zusammensstellung. Ich fand das Video sehr passend, wenn ich an die Diskussion über Netzureinwohner und- einwanderer, angeregt durch Thorstens podcast, denke.
Infinite Thinking meint dazu:
“For those of us raised on reruns of I Love Lucy and Top 40 AM radio, the “everything” that is now available – on call – is radically opposite to what we have been brought up expecting. Yet it’s the air waves our teenagers breathe.
As a classroom activity, why not watch the video together and discuss:
- How we use the Web?
- What the Web means to us?
The video concludes by suggesting, “We need to rethink a few things…” Wesch offers some examples, but how about something like, “how these Web 2.0 applications shift learning from the factory model to that of an open source mashup?”
If you want to spend more time with the text of the video, you can read it. You can also download YouTube videos and save them as .flv (flash video) files that can be viewed offline.
If the video gets you or students intrigued, take a look at Wesch’s second draft of the video and the “Spot Sets” others have added to it.”