A Vision of Students Today

In a world today, most people believe “that technology can save us.” Some believe “that technology alone can save us.”
In Michael Wesch’s video “A Vision of Students Today,” it starts out by showing a typical, empty college class room with a chalkboard in the front with rows and rows of empty desks. Desks and walls marked by students writing. The journey begins in the back of the classroom on the walls and the desks with writing saying “If the walls could talk… what would they say?” and work its way down the aisle and finally to the chalkboard. All the information that is giving to a class starts in the front; from the professor to the students from talking or by writing it on the chalkboard. But walls and desks can’t talk.
The classroom is now filled with students and they each hold a sign or their laptop saying what an average college students goes through with classes and how they use technology. College students spend so much money on classes, books, laptops (if they can afford it) and other things, but some don’t show up, others barely use their books and use their laptops not for class work. Some of the signs read how many hours spent reading, studying, eating, talking on the phone and other activities throughout the day, the total average of hours spent doing things is of course over twenty-four hours. Students multitask. They have to.
All the money spent, what are they getting out of the class if they aren’t really paying attention? One student’s laptop cost more than most people make in a year. Another student says that they will be $20,000 in debt after graduating.
What is technology really doing for this generation? Is it really helping or hurting us? Technology is being use more for communicating then it really is for learning. We should learn how to use technology to fir in with the youth today to get them more interested in learning.