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Página em construção Dear Professor Michael Wesch, We are a group of students taking an online Master Course on E-Learning Pedagogy at Universidade Aberta, in Portugal. The teacher of Education and Society on the Web assigned us the following task: analyze and publish a post with a comment on your video: **The machine is (changing) us: you tube cultural and politics of authenticity** In this excellent video and departing from the Postman book “Amusing ourselves to death”, you let us know how you understand echology as an environment mediated by tools. They tell us when, to whom and how we speak with. It´s important to understand how humankind has arrived here and what characteristics this generation has and specifically to improve the way we teach them. The institution school could no longer be the same we have had since the 19th century, when the teacher and the chalk were the centre of the process. This new media can chance this scenery because it can help them working together in a cooperative and collaborative way, giving them an active role in this process. It´s no longer a //one way// media instead it, it allows us the communication from //many-to-many.// Your works is admirable, because through your films the teacher can rethink their practice in order to encourage the student to work their imagination and use their potential to create new production opportunities and interaction with the world. His videos promote broader thinking about the behavior of the individual from the Network Society and how to use critically the Web 2.0 tool in the classroom, considering the implications of this society. How to promote cooperation among students in pursuit of collective construction of knowledge.

The way the users interact with the others, change the way we (users) see ourselves, and what stands out from this video leads to a deeply self-reflective way of acting. Rethinking our position on the network, also helps to promote our own capabilities, even if some are hidden from our closest friends and family for social reasons or shyness. While searching the communities established on the social networks we find out that people come together for a purpose, a reason or a common goal. Being anonymous not only has the negative side of showing us how feelings like hate or revenge spread out easily, but also shows how beautiful and educational this share can be. The feeling of individual freedom increases our potential to act, participate and be together as one.

Youtube and other social networks change everyday the "whatever" paradigm. Today we do care, and we do whatever its necessary to change the world that surrounds us, we got the tools on our side, and they can be definitely the step forward for the future!

Alice, Filomena, Gonçalo and Miguel =__**Students Helping Students (video)**__=

Dear Professor Michael Wesch,

We are a group of students taking an online Master Course on E-Learning Pedagogy at Universidade Aberta, in Portugal. The teacher of Education and Society on the Web assigned us the following task: analyze and publish a post with a comment on your video. EVERYONE can do solidarity (without much money). YouTube, a Web 2.0 tool, can be used for this purpose. Instead of doing a big advertising campaign, we can use YouTube to more easily reach the target group of people who can help and support. First, who wants to help can do the research on-line on the issue and thus find the Youtube video. Second, those who know the video can send it to a more specific and selected public or expose it to a large extent in social networks, if we want. On the other hand, solidarity is not so passive any more. In the past, solidarity was to offer something. Now you can offer something (eg money) and find others that can help. The way to make solidarity, like other dimensions of human life, is changing. We are able to do more and different. The message of the video is important : the best way to ensure the future is by educating the young. Ensure education is to ensure the future. The video proves that the web is not to move away people, but bring them together. New forms of cooperation are emerging. In our opinion, this video articulates our individual responsibility and our collective responsibility.

Alice, Filomena, Gonçalo and Miguel

=**__A Vision of Students today__**=

Dear Professor Michael Wesch, We are a group of students taking an online Master Course on E-Learning Pedagogy at Universidade Aberta, in Portugal. The teacher of Education and Society on the Web assigned us the following task: analyze and publish a post with a comment on your video.

It appears that the current instruction is not in tune with the world "outside" the classroom (or with the future). The way he handles the teaching and learning in schools is still similar to how they processed the teaching learning process in the nineteenth century.

The current education system was designed for a different time. It was conceived in the Enlightenment and the cultural environment in economic circumstances of the industrial revolution. In short, the conditions existing in the nineteenth century are quite different from those existing today.

In a way, the video seems to indicate that these new technologies are not yet being exploited in the learning process. In fact, there are new ways of teaching and learning. The teacher to student system (only one direction) is not compatible with the immense technological possibilities and changes in mentality as a result of the existence of these technologies.

The video also takes us to the role of teacher and student. If the teacher only brings information into the classroom, he just brings something that can be found at the click of a button on the Web. On the Web, explanations are more attractive than those made in the classroom. In other words, do not bring anything!

Dissociated two realities: how do we learn in school and how do we learn ....

Alice, Filomena, Gonçalo and Miguel =**__The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)__**=

Dear Professor Michael Wesch, We are a group of students taking an online Master Course on E-Learning Pedagogy at Universidade Aberta, in Portugal. The teacher of Education and Society on the Web assigned us the following task: analyze and publish a post with a comment on your video.

The separation between form and content giant opens a wealth of possibilities. With this separation, people (anyone) can post information in cyberspace, such as blogs and wikis. Cyberspace is (almost) open to ordinary mortals, and there isn`t a need to have great programming skills.

Cyberspace, in general, opened the possibility to connect the information, but this possibility led to changes much more profound and perhaps unexpected. In fact, Web 2.0 is linking people. It is clear that the emergence of Web 2.0 is something that goes far beyond mere technology field, providing a broad and global phenomenon spanning all areas of society, economy, culture, through media and education. Consumers of content and information, users have also become producers of information. People are sharing, exchange and collaborate. They / We are rewriting a set of things. Everything must be thought in another way: copyright, identity, ethnicity, government, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves.

In short, the video focuses on the profound implications of access and widespread use of the Web, specifically the so-called Web 2.0. Because changes in technology have an effect on various dimensions of human life.

Alice, Filomena, Gonçalo and Miguel