Video Response - Darci Peterson

In Michael Welche's documentary, the students in his class create a short film mainly containing statistics about school and their lives. All of it takes place in the classroom because the students are demenstating what they learn from their classes.

One of the things they are trying to say is that we are wasting money.There are still students who carry giant text books from class to class. Students spend hudreds of dollars on books they hadly open or do not open at all. They read about half of the assigments they are suppose to and not even a quarter relate to their own life in anyway. We get a lot of stuff for our classes from the internet and heavily use a laptop, some people do not even make as much in a year to pay for a computer. Students are getting bored or are finding that they do not need to go to class to get by, so they don't; there are people who pays thousands to be in school, to not go to school.

Clearly, since sudents do not feel a lot of the subjects in school relate to their life, they get bored. They spend time on facebook during class and they text message. There is a lot of multitasking going on. Students found an average of the amounts of time they spend doing every day things and added them all up. One would guess that would be 24 hours in a day however the students showed that it atually equaled more than that, so there is indeed a lot of multitasking. We are being pressured to do so many things that we have to.

Some students are going to school for a job that will not exist by the time they are done with school. So many things have become self-suffient with machines. At some point, there may not even be teachers, why bother if a machine can do it; it could save money to keep profit levels high, thats what they teach you in life anyways, right?

At the same time, technology is allowing students to have the power to teach themselves whatever they want to. It appears that students do not learn or care about things that do not affect them or they will never use. This means that if they are doing things that they want to do, that they are more likely to learn it and even remember it.

Basically, the problem is that education is behind technology and there needs to be a balance. If students do not need books, why have students buy them? If there are going to be classes with over a hundred students in them, it might as well be online. Education needs to incorperate technology to education in a way that is relative to today. They should be working hand in hand rather than against each other. Some of the statisics are rather shocking but they are saying that we need to be more organized and find a happy balance.