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The environment in which we're teaching today

By Bonni Stachowiak | May 26, 2008 | | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

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It is staggering to imagine how different the culture and environment is today than when most of us went to school. I remember being in college and watching a friend go ‘on the internet,' which was this cumbersome text-based series of commands that I saw over her shoulder. I thought, “No thanks… I'll stick with my Apple IIe.”

Here's an amazing video from Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University with some other triggers to get us thinking…

What challenges and opportunities do you take away from watching this as a teacher in this environment?

Filed Under: Teaching Tagged With: millennials, teaching, video

Bonni Stachowiak

Bonni Stachowiak is dean of teaching and learning and professor of business and management at Vanguard University. She hosts Teaching in Higher Ed, a weekly podcast on the art and science of teaching with over five million downloads. Bonni holds a doctorate in Organizational Leadership and speaks widely on teaching, curiosity, digital pedagogy, and leadership. She often joins her husband, Dave, on his Coaching for Leaders podcast.

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