Jerry~C Video Links: Who Needs Teachers?
Submitted by mott on July 7, 2007 - 12:46
Jerry~C Video Links (unofficial) is another site pointed out to me by Mark "Teaching-Genius" Battley, and as he mentioned, it's a great example of how education is changing.
In brief, "JerryC" or "Yee-Fan Chang", the site explains, up all night and inspired by the film "My Sassy Girl" (2004), put a quick video of himself playing an electric guitar variation of Pachelbel's Canon in D Major. He called it "Canon Rock".
After its stunning popularity on YouTube, JerryC made his backing track available online for anyone to try to record a version themselves. Quickly, new interpretations of his work popped up all over YouTube, and a flood of young musicians started sharing ideas, videos, techniques and creations. It's a remarkable example of the net bringing together young learners interactively across the world.
Et voila, effective learning without schools, teachers or testing.
Oh-oh.
