A short youtube video called “ A Vision of Students Today” is a about a students life in college. Hollywood movies about college or have college scenes in them greatly emphasize how amazing the college life style is or how it should be. The small web clip by Michael Wesch and the students of Kansas State University shows you the actually reality that college students go through in such a short amount of time. The clip shows actual students and what they actually do in class and most of them are not irrelevant to what they do in class. Towards the beginning of the video theres a scene that says “ if students learn what they do… then what are they learning sitting here” I believe that this means that students don’t learn or have a hard time learning from just sitting through lectures and examples. They need to interact more with the teachers and do more “hands on activities”. Having one and one time or a small group time with professors are very hard when you have a class with 115 people in it . A student shows a sign that says “ I have completed 49% of my readings assigned to me and only 26% of them are irrelevant in my life.” This shows that students are taking classes that the don’t even need for their future life or if they are not a lot of the work is even irrelevant to what they need in the real life. Another students made a sign saying “ My neighbor paid for this class… but never come”. A lot of students never show up to class unless they have a test but yet still manage to pass them. As a college student, I can see what the message that Wesch is trying to get through with this video. Teachers need to be more interactive with students and vise versa in order to learn better. If not teachers will then lose their students interest and the student begins to drift away from learning and spend most of their time on social networks such as face book and /or listening to music during class. College takes up a lot amount of time in a students life whether its showing up in class or doings loads amount of assignments at home and most of the assignment are irrelevant. I believe that we need a new way to approach learning in class better with students and hopefully have better reviews of what college students do and feel about college after we changed our learning exercises.
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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