Sunday, November 18, 2007

A Vision of Students Today

If you have not yet seen this video "A Vision of Students Today," you must! Mike Wesch, an anthropologist at Kansas State University, created it in his introductory cultural anthropology class. It is a great example of a SUNTA-style course design. One compelling project, collection of data from nearby "field, " discovery of patterns, some of which are commonplace and others of which are surprizing, and the assembling of a report that communicates these finding to others, all withy the instructor tutoring the method, rather than supplying the information.
Mike produced a video last year that was a major meme (a link that gets repeated in multiple blog posts) called "Information R/evolution" that you might have seen. He's doing wonderful, cutting edge work and he deserves more recognition and support from SUNTA members.

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