Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University

C'mon, it's not just kids with Asperger's who are bewildered by how college profs run their classrooms.  Michael Caulfield and Jon Udell point to this interesting video by Michael Wesch and 200 of his students at Kansas State University:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

You don't have to be on the spectrum to be bored to tears by "talk chalk" and autistic-like lecturing by College Profs who don't get how web 2.0 can enrich their classes!  But a lot of kids are moving ahead anyway...I coach the Gilsum/Surry/Sullivan 10 and 11 year old soccer team who, up until this week, had never won a game (we beat Alstead 3-2 with excellent play...staying in position, passing and centering the ball).  Along with fellow coach Doug Thornton (he's the head coach, I'm the assistant), we keep in touch with our kids from the country schools by email to discuss strategy, share youtube links on great soccer plays, and review screencasts on strategy:

http://www.techsmith.com/community/blog/movies/soccer3.html

These kids do powerpoint presentations with embedded media files, podcast reports on passcode protected blogs, and some know more about producing mixed media than I do.  So if little kids can do it, why not college profs?  The time on your watch is now!