A Vision of Students Today
13 10 2007Michael Wesch and his 200 students in ANTH 200: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, Spring 2007 collaborated in exploring what exactly a student does these days. Their results make a fascinating video and a timely reminder of the way (some) student experiences are changing:
Some of the noteworthy results from 133 of the students survey included:
- “My average class size is 115.”
- “18% of my teachers know my name.”
- I complete 49% of the readings assigned to me. Only 26% … relative to my life
- I will read 8 books this year.” “2300 web pages” “and 1281 facebook profiles”
- “I will write 42 pages for class this semester.” “And over 500 pages of email”
Given how many times Wesch’s first video, ‘The Machine is Us/ing Us’, has been used to discuss Web 2.0, I suspect this video may very well find itself as part of the conversations we have in rethinking student engagement in the twenty-first century.
[...] created by Michael Wesch at Kansas State University. This morning flicking through Google Reader, Tama has linked to a new video entitled ‘a vision of students today’. Even though it’s [...]
This post certainly makes you think I have a similar video on my blog with younger students you may want to have a look at:
http://elearning4schools.net/index/students-today
Also sure you have seen this one and is aimed at UK audience but in case you have not it is an interesting watch and focuses both students and teachers minds about the challenges we face!
http://elearning4schools.net/index/the-need-for-elearning
Enjoy!