Summery: The video text “A Vision of Students Today” by Micheal Wesch, is about how technology can save the students learning at his school. The students in the video are not learning in their huge impersonal classes, where teachers cant help students one on one because there is 115 of them in one class. One girl even points out only 18% of her teachers even know her name. Which shows how distant the teachers and the students are. The video shows that the students are giving up and not using their resources to benefit them. One of the students says “ I bring my laptop to class but I don’t use it for class stuff.” This shows the students unwillingness to even try to learn. Another student admits she sends 500 emails a semester and only writes 42 pages of writing for school a semester. The students for the most part all agree that spending money on school is a waste, when they’re barely learning anything. One girl says almost every thing she writes she can’t use in her life/career. She doesn’t see the point in writing things that don’t mean anything to her. Another student says he doesn’t even read most of the textbooks for his classes, that he is forced to buy. The video concludes with a student saying “I’ll be in debt before I even graduate.” To sum everything up, this whole article is about student’s views on their learning and technology and how it all affects them.
Response: If teachers are that distant how can teachers help student learn and develop? How can teachers know what students need to work on and what they don’t? As far as the kids who bring their laptops to school to goof off, they’re only hurting themselves. Who cares if they don’t want to learn? Maybe they shouldn’t have paid all the money to go to school in the first place. Hello, goofing off is free! Education is not! If your going to spend that type of money on something you might want to get everything you want out of it. So if you think school is for goofing off, go home and let people who want to be there learning. I don’t think there should be 115 students in one class. That makes it almost impossible to learn anything. My math class has 36 students and it’s hectic. Nobody can concentrate in a crowded room that’s just common sense. I know classes are packed because we can’t pay for more teachers, which I think is a bunch of stupid. Our education should be the most important thing to our country, state, city or so on. We should make cuts in other things, not in school. The more budget cuts the less educational learning there is. My city can afford to build a $20,000 skate park but my teachers are getting laid off? I think all students should take more pride in their learning and try there best in school.
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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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