By: Amanda Singh
This video was made by Michael Wesch. It’s called “A Vision of Students Learning”. The main goal of this video is to enlighten people of the plight that college gives students. An interesting point of this video text was that the size of the class was talked about and how only a few teachers actually know specific names which seem to be an important “complaining” piece for the students who probably seem to feel not included and important. There are many students sitting in their desks in a college classroom showing pieces of paper that was giving some statistics and facts about learning such as, “My laptop cost more than some people make in a year” and how much they pay attention to their laptop and facebook during school than the teacher and homework.
I think this is an interesting video because it shows how much students pay a year for books they don’t even read or learn things they will never use. It seems useless to me to be $20,000 in debt for schooling that doesn’t help you in life. It seems kind of a waste of time and money. I think technology could be used to help with the money problems students have. Personally, I also thought that in this video, technology was shown as a distraction-you see students admitting that they used Facebook and blogging during class and I think that is just a somewhat selfish waste of time and money since they are basically choosing to be in debt for 15+ years and not paying attention to the lecture-the class that they paid for.
I think that technology should be used but only in ways that should not be distracting. Students pay a lot of money and they should not be “allowed” to waste their time on frivolous sites while they should be paying attention. That is my take on this video text.
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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Conversations Beyond the Classroom”! The title of this blog refers to the community of active readers & collaborative learners we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with each other + a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study?
As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! We encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later…).
Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. We hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it! I am really excited see how far we can take this together!
--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100
As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! We encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later…).
Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. We hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it! I am really excited see how far we can take this together!
--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100
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