Upon seeing the video A Vision of Students Today by Micheal Wesch for the first time in class I was, to be frank, very confused. However, when I went back to watch it at home for the second time I started to understand. The YouTube video brings many important facts about student life to light, such as how impersonal many lessons are, with so few teachers actually knowing their students names.
The video was full of intriguing facts, several of which were about how outdated many facets of teaching are. It also talks about how tied to technology students of the 21st century are. I believe that the average classroom environment must be drastically changed in order to accommodate the growing number of students that rely on the web and other electronic devices in their everyday lives. Teachers must also start to take a much more hands on approach to their teaching. When the video starts, it shows how massive and empty the college classroom is. When the teacher is so far in the front, what happens to the students in the back row? Certainly they are not paying as much attention as they would be in the front. The video also reinforced this by stating things like, “My neighbor paid for class but never comes.” There were, in fact, many statistics presented that showed me that many students simply care less and less about completing their work. Why? Because it is not relevant. The video states that the average student completes 49% of the reading assigned to them, with only 26% being relevant to life outside of school. This makes me believe that teachers and schools alike must step up to the plate and make some fairly drastic (but necessary) changes to teaching policies, in order to prepare kids for all the issues of the outside world.
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