I typically don’t repost items directly from other sites; I prefer to tag those to resyndicated feeds (check the sidebar), but this short clip from The Simpsons is perhaps worth reposting. I noticed it while reading effectivedesign.org by John Curry, a friend and colleague.

Dr. Michael Wesch (creator of The Machine is Using Us) has published a video focused on the relevance of digital culture to higher education; entitled A Vision of Students Today, the video was - as noted by Dr. Wesch’s blog Digital Ethnography - the result of a the following instructions:

… the basic idea is to create a 3 minute video highlighting the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. We already know some things from previous research (and if you know of any interesting statistics, please list them along with the source). Others we will need to find out by doing a class survey. Please add whatever you want to know or present.

The blog describes the process and results of the survey which are used throughout the video. Definitely worth a read, a viewing and healthy resyndication ;-)

I discovered it reading Dean’s blog; Dean noticed it via a tweet from Bud.