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Michael Wesch talking about new media and you tube as well as Neil Postman and culture change.

Another Michael Wesch presentation on youth culture and how changing media changes our engagement.

As we increasingly move toward an environment of instant and infinite information, it becomes less important for students to know, memorize, or recall information, and more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyze, share, discuss, critique, and create information. They need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able.

Description: It took tens of thousands of years for writing to emerge after speech, thousands more before the printing press was invented, and a few hundred more for the telegraph to arrive. Today, new ways of relating are constantly created and a new communication medium emerges every time someone creates a web application-a Flickr here, a Twitter there. How can we use new media to foster the kinds of communication and community we desire in education? This presentation will discuss both successful and unsuccessful attempts to integrate emerging technologies into the classroom to create a rich virtual learning environment.

Michael Wesch's latest "...'video collage' about student life created by students themselves and presented using the wonders of HTML5, allowing us to 'cite' books and videos that are being presented in the remix as they are being shown."