Must See YouTube Videos

What YouTube Videos do you identify as your MUST SEE videos?

I was just reviewing Steve Dembo's posting about Mandatory YouTube Videos and it got me thinking about which ones I think people should watch.

Steve lists a few videos that I knew and liked including:

• Wesch's A Vision of Students Today and Web 2.0 . . . The Machine is Us/ing Us.
• The latest edition of Did You Know 3.0 by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod.
• The updated Did You Know 2010
• The Introducing Le Book depicting a support person for using books.

I was intrigued by the first two videos including:

• Digital Dossier which describes the digital trail that we leave from birth
• Food Fight which is an incredible example of stop action video creation. It is literally a war between foods. I would suggest previewing this before sharing with students due to the graphic depiction of food annihilation.
  

I would like to add a few of my personal favorites:

• Bob Sprankle's I Had a Dream where he asks "If we didn't have today's schools, would we build today's schools?"
• Don McMillan's Life After Death by PowerPoint where he shows you how NOT to use PowerPoint.
  

There are many more videos that should be listed here. What would YOU include in your list? Give us the link as well as the title.

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2020 Vision

2020 Vision is a 15-minute video developed by Karl Fisch as a staff development video to motivate Arapahoe high school teachers to engage in future visioning. It is set as that graduate speech at a high school graduation for students in 2020. He selected this year because these graduates would have begun kindergarten in 2007.

This video is a story of Google taking over the world. Even has them going into solar cells and developing electric G-Cars. The most important part is his envisioning that Google provides a 9th grade through Masters educational system. If the present schools aren't going to use the educational potential of technology, Google will. He even said that all of these schools are provided free because Google will make enough money on the Google Ads running on their school portals that it covers the cost.

I am not saying that everything that Karl Fisch says is true, but it is interesting. It does provide a reasonable view of what the next 13 years might involve (I especially liked how he referred to actions that President Obama will take =-). It can work as the springboard for discussion which is exactly why he developed it.

Watch it and think . . . and talk . . . and think . . . and do.