On the world stage
I can see details of Daniel Pink’s book Whole New Mind playing out when I read this article in today’s New York Times about amateur video creators being paid for the popularity of their videos.
A number of video sites now pay contributors if their video ends up getting viewed a certain number of times.
I particularly am thinking about Pink’s comments about the importance of design as a 21st century ability.
February 17, 2007 @ 3:48 pm
In the Statesman this morning (or was it Friday) there was a great article about the meeting between Michael Dell and Steve Jobs about education. The article ended with the comment that students know how to watch a video, but it is more difficult to really communicate with video and that it is so powerful. Interesting…
Here is the link to the article:
http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/technology/02/17/
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Janice
February 20, 2007 @ 8:55 am
Will Richardson just wrote about an experience with his 9 year old daughter, who after seeing a video on YouTube, asked how to make one.
http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/2481/
One of the responses to his post was this reminder by Jim Coe–
” If your daughter is starting her amateur film career at her young age, imagine what she will be producing as a teen and young adult. You think the consumer-generated ads and shorts we see today are witty?”
All of which reminds me that part of the exponential changes we are going to see is that as children start producing their content for more authentic (and larger) audiences around the world, by the time they reach high school, their expectations of what school needs to provide them will be very very different.