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The most significant problem with education today is the problem of significance itself. Students, our most important critics, are struggling to find meaning and significance in their education. Of central importance to this crisis is the everchanging mediascape in which our students live their lives. A Flickr here, a Twitter there, and a new form of making meaning and significance is born. These new technologies have profound implications for education and force us to rethink how we teach, what we teach, and who we think we are teaching. In this presentation, Michael Wesch will explore the implications of these emerging technologies and how we can work with them and our students to solve the crisis of significance and create a better future foreducation and technology.
Dubbed "the explainer" by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist at Kansas State University exploring the impact of new media on human interaction. After two years studying the impact of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rainforest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to the impact of Web 2.0 and digital technology on global society. His videos on technology and education have been viewed over 7 million times on YouTube. He is also a multiple-award winning teacher whose teaching projects have been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Educationand other major media outlets worldwide.
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