A Vision of Students Today

In Mike Wesch’s video “A Vision of Students Today” he gives his audience an example of what is, probably, an average classroom. Wesch is a professor of anthropology at Kansas State University, where he incorporates technology into much of his teaching. The video begins by showing phrases written on surfaces around the classroom, such as “If these walls could talk…” and “Of course, walls and desks can’t talk, but students can.” The video then shows the classroom full of students, many in turn holding up a piece of paper, or showing their laptop screens which say different things about student life, or opinions.
This video by Wesch and his students shows the feelings that many students today are feeling. For example, they address their financial difficulties, their classroom boredom, and the fact that most of their classroom experiences are impersonal and irrelevant to their lives. However, they also acknowledge that they’re the lucky ones, and that over a billion of people are making less than a dollar a day, or how one student’s laptop costs more than what one person may make in a year. Several students say how much time they spend on any one activity each day, activities which the typical student would do. Total time was 26.5 hours. This reminds the audience that students today are multi-taskers, they are much different than previous generations of students, yet education has only changed minutely.
This video calls to many peoples attention, are students today getting the most out of their educational experience?