Dylan Daugherty on A vision of students today

In "A vision of Students Today," a video by Michael Wesch, Michael attempts to connect to 3 audiences in my opinion. Firstly the the video text addresses college students, secondly teachers and educators, and finally students who are not yet in college. This video tries to make a connection by showing an empty classroom with the all too familiar writing on walls, and backs of chairs. The writing poses a question, "If these walls could talk, what would they say?" They reveal to us that desks and walls cannot speak but the students can.

Attention is focused to an online blog where another question is posed. 200 students 367 edits to the blog and surveyed themselves. The question was, "What is it like to be a student." Initially as a student I am already thinking of answers, but suddenly the empty classroom is filled with about 80-100 students. Several students show either a paper with a statement on it, or a laptop with a statement typed. They range from "I use facebook in class," "My average class is 115 students," "I use my laptop but i don't do class work."

Another scene shows students making statements about the time they spend in the day. Eventually all the hours are summed up and a statement says, "I spend 26.5 hours a day" or something. This statement is followed by the statement, "I am a multi tasker, I have to be."

I feel like this video text's meaning lays in the the last statement. As a culture students are frustrated, and technology is bombarding students with countless information. And the fact that all the new medias are forcing younger generations to multi task because of all the available activities set before one self. We are surrounded by so many options of what to do. Like in birkets essay he talks about the village only having a few books, and those books would be read over and over. Now we just have too many options and this leads us to doing a little of both, or even overlapping several activities. Personally I dig multitasking and having my mind operate at that kind of capacity.