E-Learning & Online Teaching

Here’s everything I’d need to create a killer unit on medical ethics, media literacy, and website evaluation.

Barnum would rub his hands and grin at the state of gullibility exhibited by Digital Natives (better described by Carl Heine of the 21st Century Information Fluency Project as the Un-taught Generation).

Too often we (as educators) assume that common sense develops overnight. Anyone who has observed the Un-Taught Generation search will report that the first result is the one they choose and their common belief is that everything on the Internet is true.

Why do they think this way?

The Un-taught Generation don’t know how to search, evaluate, and ethically use digital information. The Self-Taught browse, believe, and share without thinking about intellectual property rights. Why? Because the Un-taught Generation is kept bored and so busy filling and drilling and test prepping that there isn’t time in the curriculum to teach them 21st Century Skills.

20th century knowledge testing runs the show, while educators debate filtering and the evils of social networking and blogging. Time to get real… or at least take the time to teach our students how distinguish reality from deception.

• Virgil Wong : Experiments on Art, Medicine, and Technology Head of Web Design/Development Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Web designs by a master that mixes art, science and speculation. Great for web evaluation studies.(tags: Media-literacy evaluation hoax)
• YouTube – The World’s First Male Pregnancy Is this Virgil Wong’s work? How do you determine who created a YouTube Video. See user comments on this video for a snap shot of web 2.0 generation’s evaluation skills.(tags: Media-literacy evaluation, hoax)
• POP! The First Human Male Pregnancy – Mr. Lee Mingwei Early work from Virgil Wong,(tags: Media-literacy evaluation hoax)
  PaperVeins Museum of Art™ – Our Mission, History, and Honors More of Wong’s early work. Compare Wong’s picture on this page with the Dr. Giving the testimonial in the YouTube video on male pregnancy.(tags: Media-literacy evaluation hoax)
• transgenesis Includes references to Wong’s work on RYT Hospital site. Image of pregnant man, when compared to YouTube Video is the same. “doc en stock” arte france wong (query based on YouTube attribution)(tags: Media-literacy evaluation hoax)
• Male pregnancy video PREGNANCY VIDEO Male Pregnancy Pregnant Man Artificial Womb RYT Hospital Dwayne Medical Center Lee Mingwei Dr. Phineas Liu Virgil Wong (also claims film by: … produced by Doc en Stock/Arte France and directed by Sophie Lepault and Cap(tags: Media-literacy evaluation hoax)
• The future of male pregnancy is drawing near – Pravda.Ru Pravda reports this as a factual story, even sites the RYT Hospital-Dwayne Medical clinic as a source. Mentions Mingwell, Wong’s partner. Great content for a critical-thinking unit at HS or College level.(tags: hoax Media-literacy evaluation,)