ASSESSMENT
and BYOD
Ten years ago Michael Wesch created this video with and about his students at Kansas State University and the intersection of their digital lives with their academic ones. Five years ago, Wesch followed his original examination by asking students to record, with whatever devices they chose, their daily activities. This is the result.
Wesch’s extensive work with technology and society, (documented at Digital Ethnography) helps us embrace the ways in which technology affects and can support the learning of our students and our learning. Today’s students are differently skilled than students of a decade ago. Our challenge is to harness those skills for their learning!
For more insight and inspiration from Wesch, check out his TEDxNYED talk. Here are highlights:
- “Sometimes when we try to use media, the media uses us.”
- “There’s no opting out of new media. A new media comes into a society and it changes the society as a whole, and we all are a part of those changes…”
- Media are not just tools, not just means of communication. Media mediate relationships.
- Knowledgeable is different than knowledge-able.
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