The State of the Internet
Feb 28th, 2010 by Cathy Jo Nelson
Scott Mcleod popped this in my twitter feed this morning, and all I could think was how can I share this at school?? I would love to burn it to a DVD and put in our player to loop all day on my big plasma in the library. It’s one of those that you hope will open some eyes, preferably to embracing some of the tools you’ve been advocating for at the k12 school level. But my fear is those same eyes would run from it instead. I am so using this soon though, some how–some way!
Created by Jesse Thomas, it does give us pause to think, no?
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.
Pause to think about what?
I can’t see a point. It’s a bunch of random and unverified stats that don’t seem to connect. Supposedly big numbers of people doing things online and maybe getting some spam and computer viruses? So is it saying this is all good or all bad?
That many facts just slide through my brain w/out sticking. There was one that said that something like 350,000 people are on Facebook. Or was it 3 million? So? That means of the 6 billion people in the world less than a sliver of a percentage are on Facebook. Again, so? I just don’t see what the point is. If it’s trying to convince us that being online is cool, then it’s pointless because people are already getting online. If it’s trying to scare us away because of spam and viruses then it’s not working because we’re still getting online.
Sorry, I just don’t get it. I keep seeing little video/slideshows like this that people seem to think are incredibly clever but that don’t actually seem to MEAN anything.
What’s the meaning?
(sorry for the rant, Cathy, just not seeing how this will make anybody embrace anything that they aren’t already)
Pause to think the Internet is NOT something that can be controlled–so why invest so much money of school budgets in the attempt to do so.
Now see, that is something worth thinking about. I just didn’t get that from the video.
So now I’d like to see a similar video showing how much of school budgeted are going for filtering and such vs. the monetary damage done to students (probably zero). THAT would be something!
Thanks.
6 million page views per minute on Facebook? That is an incredible reach…
I have also seen a few videos along this line. They all seem to have a slightly different viewpoint, but are primarily made up of staggering statistics regarding internet usage. My mind always goes to the question of what is the real value in all of those transmissions, views, emails, tweets, etc. They all have great potential, but I often feel like the valuable content is drowning in fluff (often gossip of one kind or another). Yet so much of that fluff is so enticing to so many students. How do we help students to see past the fluff and actually use these tools to for meaningful and positive changes in the thoughts of readers, viewers, listeners, receivers, etc.?