The folks over at Savage Minds share a nice video from Michael Weiss on digital media and learning in the classroom. It’s an hour-long lecture but worth spending some time watching.

I know that myself and some of my colleagues have incorporated digital media, especially user-built digital media, like blogs and wikis, into our classroom. Weiss addresses how you might do this at a scope that I have yet to see, both examining the transformations in the learning environment as a whole and how very precise developments in technology change how we engage information.

What is most striking, though, is how traditional his ultimate conclusions are: That real learning is about critique, discussion, and examination–not gaining and storing information in the brain. What he provides is a comprehensive assessment of how to engage students with contemporary technology to make this goal a reality.