A Vision of Students Today

In "A Vision of Students Today", teacher Michael Wesch and his students from Kansas State University explore the topic of technology and its role in the classroom. Taking place in an average lecture hall full of students, they each hold up a paper, or flash to a screen on a laptop of a fact about college life, and technology. Many people presume that the technology is what is leading to the decline in education, but Wesch hints that it may possibly be due to the way we use that technology in the classroom. This disconnect from how we learn naturally in the real world and the teachings of professors in lecture halls leads each side to somehow be in a match against the other. Does it really have to be technology or conventional teachings? Or is there a happy medium that can be achieved through a merging of this ever expanding technology and teaching? Wesch seems to believe that both need reform in a way that can combine the two into a cohesive teaching tool that allows better learning for students and a bridge between teachers and students. The extreme between him writing on a blackboard, and students facebooking on thier Mac suggests that the teaching styles have stayed the same and learning styles have evolved over the years.