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"Here's the lastest video educator's are jacked about: [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UFpe3Up9T_g ] I like much about this video. I like the message. I like the way it's shot. I like the girls. What I don't like is the perception that this is the girl's invention. It's not. These girls are likely no more into inventing and making than most girls their age. While I might be able to look past that, and I can, I don't like the perception that this is authentic as it suggests. Which raises the larger question of authentic student voice. I remember first being struck by this when this video came out about 6 years ago: [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_A-ZVCjfWf8 ] It's an iteration of Michael Wesch video using college aged students. When I saw the k-12 version it just didn't sit well with me. The signs the students held seemed to be the language and ideas of adults. I had a hard time thinking any 5 year old would use the phrase "engage me". But still I thought the video had value but I never used them to share with others. (...) If you're still jacked about the little girls video, that's okay, show it to your young girls, encourage them to explore science but let's have enough awareness to know when we're being sold something. My point with this little wander through video is let's advocate for student voice but not fake ones. Our students do have a voice. Most of them are childlike, full of child like ideas and most aren't as eloquent as adults because they aren't adults. That's what we're supposed to be doing, helping them develop that voice. Yet we do have some that are ready for prime time and we should provide ways for them to share. I know some districts have had students keynote. I think that's great, as long as the core of their story is their own, not the districts or their teachers. I'd way rather listen to a student share a less polished message that was their ow

Vedi anche il commento di Stephen Downes in http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=61423

"Caso vero: un professore universitario americano pubblica in un blog MOOC Looks: Zombies and Sober Reality, una recensione di due articoli di altri professori universitari sui corsi online di massa (Mooc). Una cosa molto classica: introduzione, citazioni con riferimenti, discussione, conclusione. Ma invece di scrivere la recensione normalmente, la sbatte in un video con musichetta di sfondo, intitolato MOOC Looks 090713. Il video contiene solo il testo fatto a fette, niente immagini: Trascrizione:"

Non è che sono contraria al multimedia, però il suo uso assurdo, inaccessibile e infruibile mi risveglia pulsioni talibanesche (o forse calvinistiche visto che sono di Ginevra dove gli uomini del Libro 500eschi non scherzavano nemmeno loro con le immagini...)

Come ti capisco!!! Apriamo il Club degli Iconoclasti? ;-)