Comments on: A Vision of Students Today – Some Additional Thoughts from Michael Wesch http://www.openeducation.net/2008/10/28/a-vision-of-students-today-some-additional-thoughts-from-michael-wesch/ Free Education for All Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:29:29 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: links for 2008-11-17 | Collateral Learning http://www.openeducation.net/2008/10/28/a-vision-of-students-today-some-additional-thoughts-from-michael-wesch/comment-page-1/#comment-5525 links for 2008-11-17 | Collateral Learning Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:00:32 +0000 http://www.openeducation.net/?p=445#comment-5525 [...] A Vision of Students Today - Some Additional Thoughts from Michael Wesch — Open Education (tags: pedagogy web2.0) [...] [...] A Vision of Students Today – Some Additional Thoughts from Michael Wesch — Open Education (tags: pedagogy web2.0) [...]

]]> By: Mark Riffey http://www.openeducation.net/2008/10/28/a-vision-of-students-today-some-additional-thoughts-from-michael-wesch/comment-page-1/#comment-5361 Mark Riffey Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:30:32 +0000 http://www.openeducation.net/?p=445#comment-5361 That last sentence says a mouthful. Entrenched parties are tough to move and they are the ones that position themselves between knowing what needs to be done and doing it. More reading on a related topic from Popular Mechanics: http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/science_news/4289466.html/ Finally, the blog link above references one of the challenges that Wesch addresses in his video and ongoing work. While my blog comments about the problem come from a business perspective, the educational issues are very similar. Mark That last sentence says a mouthful. Entrenched parties are tough to move and they are the ones that position themselves between knowing what needs to be done and doing it.

More reading on a related topic from Popular Mechanics:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/science_news/4289466.html/

Finally, the blog link above references one of the challenges that Wesch addresses in his video and ongoing work. While my blog comments about the problem come from a business perspective, the educational issues are very similar.

Mark

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