YouTube: quick questions posed to people on the street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE
Disturbing.
This YouTube was shared with me by a colleague (Jim Stroud) on EnglishCafe
http://www.englishcafe.com/blog/americans-are-not-stupid-with-subtitles-13273
I laughed, but am horrified. Were any of these ’staged’? Would that many people truly not recognize that some places were mis-labeled on that world map?????
The educator side of me sees wonderful PBL (project-based-learning) possibilities here.
I believe this should be shown to high school classes, to ABE (adult based education) classes, and then projects assigned — for learners to create their own ‘mimic’ videos — drafting new questions and taking them to the streets, then creating (learner-created) teaching videos addressing any of the errors noted.
What’s your reaction?
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