Michael Wesch
TEDx Video
November 16, 2012
Discussion Questions
How are we preparing our students for the knowledge age?
What is it like being a Smith student today?
What questions are our students asking?
How do we keep our students engaged in class?
How do we get our students to ask good questions?
How do we take advantage of technology in class to further our learning goals?
What do you think about Wesch’s concept of knowledgeable vs knowledge-able?
Wesch states that knowledge-ability is a practice and encourages teachers to
embrace real problems with students and harness relevant tools. What do you
think?
How do we enable our students to become meaning-makers?
Title and Description
What is it like being a Smith student today? How are we preparing our students to
enter the Knowledge Age?
Come join us for an open-ended discussion about teaching strategies that enable our
students to ask and address important questions. We will begin the session by
watching a TEDx talk by Michael Wesch, Associate Professor of Cultural
Anthropology at Kansas State University, entitled “From Knowledgeable to
Knowledge-able”. We will then see how Wesch’s ideas resonate with what we are
currently doing at Smith and how his ideas could transform our teaching in the
future.