A Vision of Students Today
a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today – how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University. Music by Try^d: tryad.org Download higher quality wmv: www.mediafire.com mov version: www.mediafire.com More information: mediatedcultures.net This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. So you are welcome to download it, share it, even change it, just as long as you give me some credit and you don’t sell it or use it to sell anything.
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about 2 months ago
@ttaf1944 They don’t mean “inaccessible” in the way you took it….The very context and situation in which you teach almost dictates that student comment. If you taught in an amphitheater setting, you are way down there and they are way up there. The setting is NOT conducive to accessibility. In other words, you teach in an inaccessible setting, it is designed to create distance, encourage formality. It is closer to Bentham’s Panopticon than anything else….Think about it.
about 2 months ago
So, so excellent. Thank you. I am just entering education and I really found this to be the best on the web for understanding how Gen Y works.
Excellent!
about 2 months ago
@ttaf1944 This happened to me when I first started teaching. I had an open door policy, and I got the inaccessible comment. An open door policy to a student means that you need to be available when they are. So I and my TAs now have a total of 8 hours of office hrs in a week which are intentionally staggered. Students like it. In addition, I ask them that they can make an apptmt with me by sending me the hrs they are available, and I will set up a mutually available appointment time.
about 2 months ago
Its sad really.. bc i’m watching youtube videos while conversing with my boyfriend, eating, I have five other tabs open AND I’m watching TV. I seriously think we, especially Americans, have a bit of ADD. Its almost impossible for me to write an essay without logging on facebook, myspace….YOUTUBE. ug. I’ve really got to get off.
about 2 months ago
@ttaf1944 You have to find new ways to become accessible to them!!! You cant teach a class in the same way it was tough to you! The world is changing very fast, students are all not the same.
about 2 months ago
amazing video dude!! thanks..made me appreciate more of what i’m taking for granted..
about 2 months ago
tldr;
Executive Summary
@1.59
“I will read 8 books this year
2300 web pages
& (most important number)
1281 Facebook profiles”
@ 2:10
“I will write 42 pages for class this semester
and over 500 pages of emails”
@ 3:45
“I Facebook through most of my class”
Now you know why young people (and people in general by extension) are so ignorant and quite possibly stupid to boot.
tldr tldr summary
Social networking makes you stupid.
about 2 months ago
@Migueria Not all rap music is destructive. There is such a thing as “conscious rap” but you wouldn’t know about that because you don’t know much about black people and their culture at all. All you know are a couple of songs on the radio and a few TV shows, as if that were reality. BTW, your use of the n-word is creepy and don’t claim that all black people use the word. Actually there is a very hot debate in the black community about it, with the NAACP going so far as to “bury” the word.
about 2 months ago
@Ghosthead32 Coming from a nigger who loves rap music, the most destructive music there is. You are a nothing less than a hypocrite.
about 2 months ago
@Migueria
So sad you’re too stupid to think for yourself and allow music to dictate your thinking.
about 2 months ago
@artsylovelylady
Thank you!
about 2 months ago
@Migueria I guess you have never had the occasion to attend a college graduation ceremony. Plenty of black students cross that stage, some of whom graduate with honors. I should know. I graduated from graduate school with some of them. None of the black women in my class accepted being called bitches.
about 2 months ago
@artsylovelylady affirmative action is a bullshit legislation. And regarding the bitch and whore clause: why do black women refer to themselves as such and why do black men do the same? They must like it and appreciate it. And regarding black students in college, it doesn’t matter if you are in college if you can’t finish it or get good grades. You are just taking space that would be better used. And ofc you don’t see white people in ghetto’s…
about 2 months ago
@Migueria Oh yeah, blacks make up about 12% of the U.S. population, not “30%” like you say.
about 2 months ago
@Migueria No woman likes to be called a bitch regardless of what your CD collection tells you. You must not know any black women on a personal level. Would you honestly call a black teacher working in a school a bitch? There are black students in college. What do you think the affirmative action debate is about, invisible people? BTW, the last time I drove through the ghetto I didn’t see any white college kids walking around.
about 2 months ago
I was walking past my hallway in my college and I saw this video playing in front of a class of which I thought was familiar to me but I didn’t know what he was teaching and I wish I was in that class.
about 2 months ago
effectively presents many of the problems today’s college students face.
about 2 months ago
why does the education system… but more importantly, our lives as the lucky ones, should be so difficult?????????????
answer: selfishness of the people in power
about 2 months ago
It’s great to see students speaking about education. If you make a movie or write an essay talking about what’s wrong with education today and how we should fix it, as well as what’s working, then you could get a $1,000 scholarship. Check out: t2ce.org
about 2 months ago
I once watched a foreign movie (yeah w/ subtitles) on my laptop during my Theology class. My friend beside me watched, too. I don’t think the teacher gave a shit.
about 2 months ago
did you notice that all of the students are white?
Where are all the black students? Why are they learning and trying to solve problems? They make up over 30% of USA’s population….
Why do only white people go to college and learn for 4-6 years only to be killed by a gangster 2 years after that doesn’t have any money to buy crack (let alone food) for his over-extended family which he made with a bitch (black women like to be called bitches… black culture tells us that)…
about 2 months ago
I used to spend 3 hours studying, but my English lecturer always said that chalk boards we the best for teaching and he swore by them. This video shows how the online world is dictating students i.e. facebook. There is a lot to be said for the old ways..but really it all about personal motivation of the university student.
about 2 months ago
Ahh nice concept. I am an educator and I have written several papers on this subject. I totally agree and I understand the message you are attempting to get through.
Unfortunately, from a pedagogical point of view the video has the exact same flaws of our educational system: it lacks of inventiveness and interconnection to efficiently deliver the message to a 21st century audience. Until we revolutionize education we will not have progress.
about 2 months ago
This is a video we watched in our Educational Technology class. Thought my friends who are teachers might find this compelling.
about 2 months ago
Same as the Berkeley prof…I use a lot of technology in my classroom, and I even show this video at the beginning of every quarter to discuss changes needed in education (I’m a composition/literature prof). I hold office hours in person, live chat, and even arrange to be in the library toward the end of the quarter to help students when the writing center is closed right before finals. Rarely does anyone take advantage of this.