Students go viral

suz01 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:28:05 +0000

We have seen some great videos about education ‘go viral’ in the last few years. Most were made by educators, some involved students, but this is one of the most powerful I remember that has been produced entirely by students. Read about the process on Julia Lindsay’s blog and see the fantastic results below. I wish this could be compulsory viewing for all teachers… actually, I wish everyone who watched it really ‘got it’. So many good, well intentioned teachers do not understand how we are holding our students back in many ways. In our schools, we are working so hard just to get Web 2.0 tools accepted (and unblocked!) – that the potential of virtual worlds and high end gaming are so far in our future, and so far beyond th eunderstanding of many teachers, that I sometimes fear we will never get there…

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Students go viral