Shiny New Ed 2.0 Video with Gratuitous Sex and Violence
Thursday, 17 June 2010 Clay Burell 
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From the YouTube blurb:
[Stanford Psychology] Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world.
Interesting all the way through, but the gallery below previews parts that should interest educators. See the full vid below the fold.
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The blurb doesn’t mention Zimbardo’s segue into education (at the 5.40 mark) and the allegedly re-wired brains of teens. Nor does it mention that Zimbardo also designed the fascinating Stanford Prison Experiment back in 1971. (Hover over that link to see a popup video via my Apture plugin.)
Ed 2.0 geeks may find little new here, but the RSA Animate production values package the ideas with more bling than usual. This may be useful for tech evangelists who haven’t resigned themselves to the similar inertial laws governing schools and glaciers .
The vid does raise a question for me, though only half-serious. To wit: Okay, so the addled minds of our 10,000-hours-of- gaming-and-XXX-addicted teenage boys now find “analogue” classrooms boring. If we’re to compete with that, what’s the guidance? And how realistic is it to think that rigorous thought about, say, Confucianism can come close to WoW killing and W-o-P0rn [redacted]-ing?
Yes, I have issues with the edu-tainment imperative. Handle with care.
Now the vid:
–your thoughts?
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