Corrina B. A Vision...

After watching Michael Wesch's video "A Vision of Students Today" what I really took from it is how unrealistic the demands from our schools are today. We have a technology that allows us to access and send information at the speed of light and yet our schools barely incorporate online learning with our classroom learning. So many students are practically forced to buy books that we hardly use and yet we have a computer that we can google any information we need, and virtually not even use our books. Our teachers don't know our names and half of us never even show up to class and somehow some of us can still pass with flying colors. Our learning program needs to be evaluated and altered in ways to work more with our computers. People may believe that we need the classroom to keep our students involved but even when we do show up to class we are using our computers to surf the web, facebook and twitter. We are opening up to these online classes, we need to better construct those classes and open them up to more students. While I still believe that all the computer use is numbing us as an American society I do believe that if we tried to incorporate all the new technologies while still communicating with humans and teachers we can all find a happy medium between our “old fashioned ways” and the new craze of the internet.