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This video is a teacher's description of exactly the kind of class we are talking about.

I wrote about this video as an example of effective inquiry in my first "paper". I thought y'all might find it interesting.

From the description: "It took tens of thousands of years for writing to emerge after humans spoke their first words. It took thousands more before the printing press and a few hundred again before the telegraph. Today a new medium of communication emerges every time somebody creates a new web application. A Flickr here, a Twitter there, and a new way of relating to others emerges. New types of conversation, argumentation, and collaboration are realized. Using examples from anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, YouTube, university classrooms, and "the future," this presentation will demonstrate the profound yet often unnoticed ways in which media "mediate" our culture."

More Mike Wesch. If you haven't seen this talk he gave to the library of congress, you should. Great model for inquiry based work with students.