Michael Wesch's Videos
We have
watched recently, attending the curricular unit of Education and Network
Society, four very interesting videos belonging to the "master
pieces" of Michael Wesch. We publish on this space of communication, our
comments about these media with the hope to awaken, in each one of you, the
desire of watching the full videos - we assure that you will not regret.
Video 1:
We want to first congratulate
the commitment and dedication to the work produced in order to help and teach
the younger generation in how to help others.
We
found this video very rewarding and a great way to carry solidarity through the
planet, using new technologies, in this case the video on YouTube.
By
watching it, we are immediately surrounded by a pleasant sense of confidence in
the youth of today, concerning their attitudes, values, solidarity,
responsibility, brotherly love and many other feelings that should be strongly
rescued, trained to bravely survive in order to construct a new society, using
a network to create a network, more just and caring.
This
video helps to overcome preconception that involves the new media, leading us
to use them in behalf of the education process besides the entertainment,
communication, transmission of content and others. It demonstrates that the
exercise of integration of network communications, the share of network ideas
and the collaborative construction of concepts has the power to awaken the
student to social issues, regardless of status, nation, color or other forms of
segregation used, mainly in the academies.
As
educators we feel touched to elaborate, with our students, activities of
collaboration and sharing using social media and everyday cases, in order to
develop in students a sense of co-responsibility with each other, at the same
time, providing stimulus, feeling of belonging to the school and to the
educational act.
It´s
amazing the involvement of Dr. Wesch, in the creation of these projects,
together with your students and, in our opinion, should be replicated
throughout the world because these are facts and needs that persist in our
reality and are often forgotten.
Video 2:
Reflecting
around this video, the group found it quite interesting, focusing on important
issues and emerging in the educational field. It is impressive how, in a few
minutes, the video provides a picture that describes the pedagogical issue
today: how the teaching-learning process needs to be innovated.
This
video is a rich resource to be used in teacher training courses, always with
the aim of showing possible paths for a pedagogical practice that embraces new
media (after all, these are tools created by man to serve man and that are
present in students everyday).
However,
this is a challenge that is imposed to the teacher and consequently their
profession, in order to respond to this turning, looking for new ways to create
a balance between educational practices and the needs of everyday life of the
student, for a fruitful and successful learning. At the same time, urges us to
recognize that this man today is different, so you can not keep a pedagogical
practice without evolution. It is clear: the student is not satisfied and has
the potential to develop multiple skills, provided it is given space to act as
protagonist.
Video 3:
We
would like to, in the first place, thank the opportunity of contacting with
this rich material, because it shows the progress of written communication and
the advantage of the current digital text, promoting flexibility and agility,
besides providing the use of hyperlinks, a huge range of information and,
consequently, new learning's.
This
network leads us to a collective production, bringing in its wake conceptual,
behavioral and cultural changes.
This
connectivity involves us in a way that allows us the development of creativity,
imagination and new skills, in order to obtain a meaningful education, with
interactivity and dynamism.
Video 4:
We feel
enriched by the approach, of Dr. Wesch, in this video. Indeed, the arising of
the technology comes with effects that naturally influence our behavior and
sometimes our identity gets in crisis. The video highlights the importance of
the same technology in overcoming this crisis, as it shows that unlike TV,
YouTube can provide us a space for self-reflection, without losing the connection
to the world.
Dr. Michael Wesch, congratulations for your initiative!
Best Regards,
The Lambda
Group, Master class in Pedagogy of Elearning 2014/2015, at the Universidade
Aberta in Portugal :
Amélia Mungoi
Eliane Ciolfi
Leideana Bacurau
Lúcia Couto
