For those of you that don't know, Cole was recently in San Antonio, TX for the Educause Learning Initiative (ELI 2008). Sounds like an amazing conference, maybe I will be able to go someday. Anyway, one of the speakers was Michael Wesch, the creator of the Web 2.0 video you watched the first week. I thought you might be interested in seeing him talk about his ideas and what he sees as the implications of a Web 2.0 world for his teaching. Here is the link. There are other good talks for you to take a peek at, in particular, Henry Jenkins is a well known media scholar from MIT, and there is a talk about the Horizon Report.
I have to admit as a person that was a classroom teacher K-12 and then spends a lot of time thinking about teaching and learning I am always a little frustrated by folks from other disciplines (i.e not education) that come to the "revelation" that lecture halls filled with students is not a good model. It also makes me sad that faculty without prior teaching experience end up reinventing the wheel in the name of innovative practice without ever considering that they are likely on the same campus with people that can help them think about what they are doing in interesting new ways.
I have to admit as a person that was a classroom teacher K-12 and then spends a lot of time thinking about teaching and learning I am always a little frustrated by folks from other disciplines (i.e not education) that come to the "revelation" that lecture halls filled with students is not a good model. It also makes me sad that faculty without prior teaching experience end up reinventing the wheel in the name of innovative practice without ever considering that they are likely on the same campus with people that can help them think about what they are doing in interesting new ways.
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