Interesting! A student alerted me that this was on the Fischbowl. (It is sort of cool / strange that students are visiting the Fischbowl and taking an interest in the topics that we discuss as professional teachers.)
This is the kind of piece that I immediately want everyone to see. It reminds me of trying to convince my students in my first year of teaching that there's something about reading a book online that will never compare to opening an old book in a library or a new book in a bookstore, that convenience has nothing to do with meaning. It reminds me also of my fiance's paranoia about companies personalizing your information and where this might lead us as a society. The production itself was interesting as well; it refused to give in to colors or pictorial images, offering us only floating white titles against a black screen. What "EPIC" society would look like is left up to us--while watching, we imagine ourselves in this picture and perhaps realize that we're already there.
I just finished watching the video and reading the comments that Kristin's students posted on her blog. I haven't exactly processed it all, so I'll just say wow to both the movie and the students' comments for now.
Interesting! A student alerted me that this was on the Fischbowl. (It is sort of cool / strange that students are visiting the Fischbowl and taking an interest in the topics that we discuss as professional teachers.)
ReplyDeleteThis is the kind of piece that I immediately want everyone to see. It reminds me of trying to convince my students in my first year of teaching that there's something about reading a book online that will never compare to opening an old book in a library or a new book in a bookstore, that convenience has nothing to do with meaning. It reminds me also of my fiance's paranoia about companies personalizing your information and where this might lead us as a society. The production itself was interesting as well; it refused to give in to colors or pictorial images, offering us only floating white titles against a black screen. What "EPIC" society would look like is left up to us--while watching, we imagine ourselves in this picture and perhaps realize that we're already there.
ReplyDeleteI just finished watching the video and reading the comments that Kristin's students posted on her blog. I haven't exactly processed it all, so I'll just say wow to both the movie and the students' comments for now.
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