his Web 2.0 wisdom to the University of Manitoba on June 17. During his presentation, the Kansas State University professor breaks down his attempts to integrate Facebook, Netvibes, Diigo, Google Apps, Jott, Twitter, and other emerging technologies to create an education portal of the future. “It’s basically an ongoing experiment to create a portal for [...]

The future of education

Dubbed "the explainer" by popular geek publication Wired because of his viral YouTube video that summarizes Web 2.0 in under five minutes, cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch brought his Web 2.0 wisdom to the University of Manitoba on June 17. During his presentation, the Kansas State University professor breaks down his attempts to integrate Facebook, Netvibes, Diigo, Google Apps, Jott, Twitter, and other emerging technologies to create an education portal of the future. More importantly he not only talks about the technologies but how he encourages extraordinary participation and collaboration from his students by engaging them in meaningful learning activities. Although the video is 66 minutes long...pour a coffee, iced tea or glass of wine and enjoy this dynamic presentation from a master teacher.

Presented at the University of Manitoba June 17th 2008.

Parents and community altogether are working to keep their Catholic schools from closing. Archdioceses are finding their way out and in the process, are merging schools with less enrollment. These schools have experienced a 30% to 50% decline drop in enrollment and they struggle to survive. But, is such a decline a consequence of how parents chose their son's schools? Crux of the Matter, help us understand better, what's happening with the right of choice that parents have not only in the U.S. but Canada, as well: Allowing parents to send their children to a school of their choice does NOT destroy a publicly funded school system. That is a myth put forward by all those in the public system who fear change and the possible reduction in power and influence. In fact, all parent choice does is recognize the obvious -that a one size fits all approach to meeting the needs of individual students simply doesn’t work very well. Yet, isn’t that what education is supposed to be about- the students as opposed to the educators and policy makers? As former Florida governor Jeb Bush writes -and he has the know-how and experience to talk about it -what the government of Florida found when it implemented a voucher system was that competition actually forced educators in the public system to improve. Are you interested in the discussion? Do not miss those at the original article. If you want to receive my future posts regularly for FREE, please subscribe in a reader or by e-mail. If you have concerns, Contact Me at anytime.

Presented at the University of Manitoba June 17th 2008. (for those of you waiting for the Library of Congress presentation, it will be posted July 19th-ish.)

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an amazing synthesis of "the guide on the side" and "the sage on the stage"