I think that video “A Vision of Students Today” by Michael Wesch shows how much technology has changed our learning and behavior. It also has us think very critically at what education really is, what our days are shaped like and how does what we do and what courses we take affect our future and real life?
There were many things I noticed while watching this video like the sign one of the students were holding up that stated that everything that they did was a total of about 26.5 hours a day. When I saw this the first thing I thought of was how they even managed to do that much and still fir sleep into their every day lives? Obviously though with the help of computers or things like that we are able to do much more, we really do need to multitask. Also there was another that said “When I graduate I will most likely have a job that does not exist today.” This means that she is probably going to need to acquire skills that do not exist today. I though this showed very well how times are rapidly changing and advancing so why are we sitting here trying to learn things that wont help us in the future? When another student put up her sign that only “26% of the material we read or learn is relevant to our life. When I saw this on I automatically thought of the American History class I had right before, things like why am I required to take it? How will learning about the past benefit my future in any way, shape or form? Well I concluded it won’t. We learn about these things obviously but teens are so wrapped in the fast moving word of electronics and socializing we could really care less, there is only a small percent that can say they enjoy being lectured from a professor for an hour about things irrelevant to their own life. Another good point was that only 18 % of our teachers actually know our name. This to me gave the impression that most teens would like to think “If they don’t care why should I?” Which is true even, if teachers don’t have time students also start thinking that they could be doing something else right now rather than sitting in a class where they wont be cared about or receiving the help that they paid money for.
Wesch used a very engaging video to capture out attention of his viewers and made a subtle approach in pointing out the reality of most teens.
Welcome!
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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