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Last year over a few lunch periods we thought up and filmed this video.  Emerson did the music and Mr. March did the editing.  Starring a celebrity cast!

Imagine a video that contrasts the zombie life of “compliant students” all sitting in rows, heads over books, teacher droning on…See a larger version

Maybe there are some images from zooming around the school to different classses and subjects, but everyone is (ridiculously) doing what they are told. We might have some really daggy choral group singing a lame version of “I wanna be Educated.”

I Wanna be Sedated, by the Ramones

The same song by the Young at Heart Choir

We might go for the zombie look of the first Macintosh commerical (1984)

We could zoom behind the books of the lined up students to see each of them, rather than listen to the teacher, is hooked into a small device like a Touch or phone.

We can have students losing themselves in Australian Idol, WoW, Cartoons, End of the World, etc. while the teacher smiles at how well the students are understanding differentiated equations, French conjugations, the theme of Romeo & Juliet, the cause of the French Revolution, etc. The idea is that no matter what’s happening in front of them, the students are tuning out into their New WWW dreamworld.

Then we can warp into you guys, the cluey, Tech Crew who take the advantages of Web 2 to be the ones who create FireFox, WordPress, TakingITGlobal, Napster, etc. You could go to Stanford University’s Online High School or learn on your own at MIT Open Courseware.

All this could lead to Wikicademy, where you know that we know that you know best.

We could then show the classrooms and subjects we visited earlier, but now instead of boring zombies, we see students and teachers all engaged in real learning. Some might be helping people in Cambodia, others helping with global warming, others doing real science,

I thought this was an interesting post on PicktheBrain: 7 Life Lessons I Learned Playing Halo.

Also I’ve been wanting to work with students to make a video about new ways to look at school and education. There is mwesch’s A Vision of Students:

But this is more about Uni students. What about high school? What about in Australia? Wanna have a go?

How about comparing the life lessons learned at a school versus playing halo? Which are “better” for the person? Here’s the intro for the article by John Wesley:

Yesterday I had a blast playing Halo 3 for the first time. It lead me to reflect on the countless hours I’ve poured into the Halo series over the past 6 years. Sure, I might not have much to show for it, but that time was thoroughly enjoyed. In retrospect, I even learned some important life lessons that have helped me succeed.

1. Hesitation is death
2. Success requires experience
3. You can’t win without teamwork
4. Anticipation is the key to victory
5. Leverage your strengths
6. Winning comes in streaks
7. The Devil’s in the details

What does school teach in comparison?

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