Michael Wesch, a cultural anthropology professor from Kansas State University recently (6/17/2008) delivered a lecture at the University of Manitoba entitled "A Portal to Media Literacy" (http://umanitoba.ca/ist/production/streaming/podcast_wesch.html) . He's the person behind the YouTube classics Information R/evolution and several others.
I haven't finished watching it yet (it's over an hour) but Tony Karrer at the Workplace Literacy blog (http://www.workliteracy.com/network-key-skill) says he ends with "..the thought that students needed to go from:
Knowledgeable
to
Knowledge-able"
Tony proceeds to note "However, when I think about key skills gaps that exist and the biggest changes in knowledge work, it’s more about People, Expertise Finding, Networking, Collaboration, Virtual Teams, etc. "
I'd like to start with my students (and many in the workplace) being "knowlege-able" and creating opportunities and encouragment for the other elements to follow.
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- Bill Perry
- I am an educator & consultant interested in electronic learning, healthcare informatics, social learning and gamification.