Digital Love


Written on October 24, 2007 – 2:07 am | by Paull Young

UGA Connect sparked me thinking deeper about the shifting learning environment that information rich digital natives are growing up immersed in. This video, again from Professor Michael Wesch from Kansas State University and via Mitch Joel, condensed my thoughts and put them on a screen:

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I think that we might well use this vid to start up our Podcamp Boston presentation this weekend. We’ve been stoked to see some great contributions so far, thanks to the following folk for thoughtful posts:

The more points we can get, no matter how obscure, the better discussion we’ll have this weekend. If you’re a PR educator, make sure you check out Christi’s blog where she’s tagged a bunch of you for insight as well - we know that you’re closer to digital natives than most and we’d value your opinion.

I’m hoping to add all the content to the Digital Natives wiki ahead of Podcamp. Our plan is to sift through this information with the assistance of our audience and try to get to some deeper rules and insights.



  1. 4 Responses to “Digital Love”

  2.   By Kevin Dugan on Oct 24, 2007 | Reply

    UGA Connect reinvigorated my desire to help out with students. We reference them as digital natives so much, I think many assume they just get it. It was clear at Connect that is not the case. More work to do.

    Not to mention, it’s up to us to make sure that the how-to’s are grounded in the why. By this I mean strategy!

    Good luck at Podcamp!

  3.   By Paul J. Thomas on Oct 25, 2007 | Reply

    I saw this video last week on youtube and honestly- although the presentation is interesting as well as the information, I found it to be a but vague in its actual message… or is there a message, is it just a straighforward an onslaugh of information?
    -paul

  4.   By Mihaela on Oct 26, 2007 | Reply

    Loved the video. My husband and I have been arguing for years that academia has to adapt to students’ lifestyles. Most of us in colleges teach the same way they used to 100 years ago… and students don’t do a good job of telling us what they need, because they look to us to lead, and don’t take charge of their education. I agree with Kevin, digital natives aren’t born with twitter accounts and they need to learn to work in this info-rich environment. I doubt we’re doing a good job preparing them for that.

  5.   By event management on Oct 31, 2007 | Reply

    I htink it’s saying something similar to what I’ve believed since I was a kid and is rapidly becoming more obvious, you can’t train kids to live well in your own past as butcher, baker, tradesman etc. as these skills will be gone by the time they become adults. Instead, you have to teach them to adapt well to any environment they encounter by reacting with imagination and creativity. This can’t happen in a school because a school has to justify itself with test results, so kids’ imaginations and creativity must be limited to function only within testable parameters. School’s out, therefore.

    BB

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