Meagans's summary of Michael Welsh's movie

In this video text by Michael Welsh and his students from the Kansas State University, it first off being the movie with a quote written on a wall saying, “If walls could talk..”, then the camera goes to other objects and you get to see what each object has written on it. Then as more times goes on it shows a typical full university classroom and random students holding up statics and quotes. One example of other of the statics used was “I complete 49% of the readings assigned to me, only 26% are relevant to my life.” One example of a quote would be “My neighbor paid for school, but never comes to class.” Towards the end the students start holding up more and more statics and problems that they are facing with everyday going to school that I am sure many other students experience now, one of the problems is that how when in class what students are really doing their classes where they have access to computers, most students are checking their Facebook, or their MySpace. Are students spending more time learning what is being taught in the class rooms or are students spending more time checking their profiles. Some ideas that came to my mind was that maybe the teachers do not know what there are teaching, maybe the reason for the assignments that are assigned to students are not relevant to life. As a society, I think that students are becoming more self-taught. Another idea that I see is that the classes being taught are way too structured and that why you look at Facebook, etc, is because what you are learning in the classroom is not interested. A quote that I heard in a class discussion was that “education has not caught up with the technology yet”, meaning that maybe the teacher do not know what they are teaching. In Clive Thompsons “New Literacy” he states “It didn’t serve the purpose other than to get them the grade”, maybe in a sense the video text is trying to say that teacher don’t really have to incentive to teach that they say they do, maybe they are just doing it for the pay check. Technology has hurt us as a society but it has also made us grow.