Teaching That’s Worth The Price Of Tuition
If all of my professors and instructors had taught like this, forking over the tuition would have been far less painful. I’m not saying all profs need to have slick media shows every lecture. I’m saying college costs a lot, and 95% of the time undergrads are being lectured to by either a T.A. or an overworked, underpaid instructor who stands in front of the room and basically re-states the textbook out loud (only this time it’s in monotone).
It’s clear that this guy, Asst. Professor Michael Wesch at Kansas State, knows his subject and still gets off on imparting knowledge to his students. Here’s hoping the politics involved with teaching (and publishing or perishing) at a university don’t wear Mr. Wesch down to a monotonous nub any time soon.
And no, all of his lectures aren’t like this video. This was his way of brilliantly using the subject itself to explain to his Digital Ethnography students (and everyone on YouTube) the very (very) basics of Web 2.0 and how the world and our perception of it and ourselves is changing because of said increasingly accessible and far-reaching technology.
Here’s the video you need to show your professors so they’ll understand how much they need to love what they teach so it will be worth everyone’s while for you to take their class:
Consider a career in education – become a teacher
Posted by Alexa Harrington
