"A Vision of Students Today" By Michael Wesch

After watching “A Vision of Students Today” By Michael Wesch I really began to think about how in touch our generation is with today’s technology. It made me think about how sitting in a classroom and taking notes used to be all it took to teach students, but now a days we use technology for the majority of our learning. The facts and statements in this video were extremely eye opening and they really make you stop and think about the things we do and how we do them. The part about everything that we do in a single day adding up 26 ½ hours blew my mind, because I can’t imagine that I spend that much time on certain things when the reality is I do, we all do. I think the part that matters most of this reading was when the one student held up the scantron that said on the back “this isn’t going to help me with…” and then had all the problems that are going on in the world around it. I think this was important because it’s very true, because what I am learning in my classes I will most likely never use in real life. This Connects to what we are doing in class because we use technology as a daily thing and we relate a lot of what we talk about to the technology we use. An example of this is our blogger accounts, I think these accounts are going to be very useful and such an extra addition to our learning in English this year. And going back to the part of the video where the scantron is held up, it shows that while getting a good grade in class is important there are plenty of things out there that are much more worthy of our time. In the end this video brought so many different thoughts to my head about my education, my time management and my life in general and it most definitely changed my perspective on what a big part of our day to day lives technology is.