CK came home from work the other day and said he'd watched a video I remembered from when a colleague showed me back when I was teaching freshman English at Gallaudet.
So I went and googled it (whoo-hoo, I'm digital-adaptable), and again had dozens of flashbacks, not just to my own educational experiences, but also to my challenges in my short stint as a college instructor.
Thinking about my own experience as a student and teacher, though, my question upon watching the video again is: how would a deaf class have put this video together? Would the stats have been the same? Would there have been other factors? Hmm.
The professor who made this video, Michael Wesch, posted a blog about how he and his students put this video together: "It began as a brainstorming exercise, thinking about how students
learn, what they need to learn for their future, and how our current
educational system fits in."
In other words, they were doing a sociological self-experiment in metacognition. And how. I love the quote from McLuhan (any communications studies majors out there?) at the beginning that portrays the structured classroom environment as arcane.
In other words: edgy shit.
Whoa. This video is definitely sobering. And forces me to rethink my teaching curriculum. =P
Posted by: Keri | August 20, 2008 at 10:47 PM