A Vision Of Students Today

In Michael Wesch's video "A Vision of Students Today" he brings up the point that the chalkboard was the greatest invention that has been invented. He has brought all of his students together to make a short film on how we as students tend to use the technology that we have been given. The camera slowly moves around the room as students hold up pieces of paper or have something typed out on their laptops saying facts. A student holds up a piece of paper saying that only eighteen percent of her professors know her name. Students now a days have to be multi taskers one of the papers says and I could not agree with this anymore. We have so many things that we have to do and so many expections to become great thinkers and writtings that we are normally spending our time overloaded with homework. One of the facts that hit hardest to me was how much students spend looking at facebook and or email and surfing the web in class when they should be doing something related to that specific class. Wesch's students bring up the fact that they will be over twenty thousand dollars in debt when they graduate from college. If we spend so much time on the internet and doing things that arent class related why do we go to class and go to college? The question I pose is why would you want to go to that big university when the teachers dont recognize you and when you spend most of your time doing something that isnt even class related. Why spend so much money on something we may not even good a very good education out of?