“A Vision of Students Today” is a YouTube video that was filmed at Kansas State University. “It summarizes how students 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”(Wesch).
A student posed a question, and invited 200 students to collaboratively respond to the question through the use of Google Docs. The question posed was, “What is it like being a student today?”
Some of the responses 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% of it is relevant to my life,” “I buy hundred dollar textbooks that I never open,” “my neighbor paid for class, but never comes,” “I will read 8 books this year, 2300 web pages, and 1281 Face Book profiles,” “I will write 42 pages for this class this semester, and over 500 pages of email,” “I bring my laptop to class, but I’m not working on class stuff”(Wesch).
At the end of the video there was a quote that stated, “…on the benefits of the chalkboard…writing on a chalkboard…what missing?...photos, videos, animation, network.”(Wesch). To me this means that teachers today need to change their methods of teaching to reach the needs of the students sitting in front of them.
Are you meeting the needs of your students?
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