We know a lot of people are probably already familiar with this, but Michael Wesch, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University has produced an amazing video about Web 2.0 that we think everybody should watch (after all, it’s been viewed over 3 million times and Wesch has won a bunch of awards with it, including a Wired Magazine Rave Award and the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Media Praxis from the Media Ecology Association). Though it’s not specifically about the iPhone — or even about the academy per se — its engaging and thought-provoking look at how Web 2.0 is changing the world might help teachers and students gain a new vision for technology in the classroom (and out of it).

Wesch’s MediatedCultures is exploring the impact of humans and digital technology, and his work with digital ethnographies is producing interesting results.

In our view, as converged media and technology become more pervasive, many of the assumptions and practices that we’ve held for so long will have to be reevaluated. We’re already seeing some of this in the way that YouTube, Wikipedia and iTunes U are changing classroom dynamics. As devices like the iPhone find their place in the academy, there’s no doubt that it will only get more interesting…